By Martin F. Price,Alton C. Byers,Donald A. Friend,Thomas Kohler,Larry W. Price
This significant revision of Larry Price’s ebook Mountains and Man (1981) is either well timed and hugely applicable. The earlier 3 many years were a interval of outstanding growth in our knowing of mountains from an educational perspective. Of even larger value is that society at huge now realizes that mountains and the folk who stay in them usually are not remoted from the mainstream of global affairs, yet are very important if we're to accomplish an environmentally sustainable future.
Mountain Geography is a finished source that offers readers an in-depth figuring out of the geographical procedures happening within the world’s mountains and the general impression of those areas on tradition and society as an entire. the quantity starts with an advent to how mountains are outlined, via a entire remedy in their actual geography: origins, climatology, snow and ice, landforms and geomorphic methods, soils, plants, and flora and fauna. The concluding chapters offer an advent to the human geography of mountains: attitudes towards mountains, humans dwelling in mountain areas and their livelihoods and interactions inside dynamic environments, the varied forms of mountain agriculture, and the demanding situations of sustainable mountain development.
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