Mountain Environments: Changes and Impacts

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 The Changing World of Mountains in the Long Term

Chapter 4 The Discovery of Mountains: From Enigma to Exploitation

Chapter 5 The Climate of the Mountains, Originality and Spatial Variability

Chapter 6 Snow in the Mountains

Chapter 7 Ice and Glaciers in the Mountains

Chapter 8 The Main Features of Mountain Vegetation and Its Altitudinal Organization. The Timberline

Chapter 9 Hydrology and Fluvial Morphology in Mountains: Those Special Rivers

Chapter 10 Landforms and Geomorphological Processes: From Summits to Valley Bottoms

Chapter 11 Creation and Organization of Mountain Landscapes by Human Societies

Chapter 12 Living in the Mountains: The Wide Variety of Land Uses and Their Geo-ecological Consequences

Chapter 13 Global Change in Mountains and Its Consequences at Different Scales

Chapter 14 Mountains: As Difficult to Exploit as They Are to Conserve. An Integrative Look at Mountain Landscapes and Societies