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Mountains
Ellen . Ed(S): Wiegandt
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Description for Mountains
Hardback. Addresses the major challenges in assuring globally sustainable water use. This title examines critical contemporary and global issues through the lens of global change processes and with a focus on mountain regions. Editor(s): Wiegandt, Ellen. Series: Advances in Global Change Research. Num Pages: 386 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RGBS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 735.
The idea for Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge began with the constitution of the Association Montagne 2002, whose mission was to celebrate the International Year of Mountains in the alpine canton of Valais, Switzerland. The year 2002 was the occasion for diverse activities ranging from exchanges with Bhutan and the construction of a traditional hanging bridge, to a contest for schoolchildren and roving photography exhibits. An international scientific colloquium was also organized at the University Institute Kurt Bösch. Committee members of the Association Montagne subsequently agreed that the presentations should be gathered into a book. The topic seemed ... Read more
The idea for Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge began with the constitution of the Association Montagne 2002, whose mission was to celebrate the International Year of Mountains in the alpine canton of Valais, Switzerland. The year 2002 was the occasion for diverse activities ranging from exchanges with Bhutan and the construction of a traditional hanging bridge, to a contest for schoolchildren and roving photography exhibits. An international scientific colloquium was also organized at the University Institute Kurt Bösch. Committee members of the Association Montagne subsequently agreed that the presentations should be gathered into a book. The topic seemed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Global Change Research
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402067471
SKU
V9781402067471
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Ref
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Reviews for Mountains
From the reviews: "This book, the latest volume in the ‘Advances in Global Change Research’ series, is a compilation of presentations from a 2002 international scientific colloquium in Sion, Switzerland. … Readers can select any of the papers and find opening abstracts, well-written and scientifically supported text, and conclusions and/or recommendations. A bibliography lists over ... Read more