Title: Human impact on mountains /
Authors: Allan, Nigel J. R.; Knapp, Gregory W.; Stadel, Christoph.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield,
Physical description: xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: The study of mountain lands and people / Kenneth Hewitt -- High mountains as human habitat / Erwin F. Groetzbach -- Comparative geography of high mountains of the world in the view of landscape ecologuy / Carl Troll -- Mountain agronomy in Ethiopia, Nepal and Pakistan / Peter T.S. Whiteman -- Mountain people and monastics in Kumaon Himalaya, India / Agehananda Bharati -- Transhumance in European and American mountains / Gisbert Rinschede -- The importance, status and structure of Almwirtschaft in the Alps / Hugo Penz -- Traditional agricultural strategies in the hill lands of tropical America / Stephen B. Brush -- The future value of the "verticality" concept / Sylvia H. Forman -- Mapping of mountain hazards in Nepal / Jack D. Ives -- Simulation models of Andean adaptability and change / R. Brooke Thomas -- Problems of land use and recent settlement / Harald Uhlig -- Limits to Obergurgl's growth / Walter Moser and Jeannie Petersen. The succession of an agricultural society to a leisure society / Elisabeth Lichtenberger -- Tourism and recreation developments in the Rocky Mountains of Canada / Herbert G. Kariel -- Oases of the Karakorum / Hermann J. Kreutzmann -- Adaptation to frost and recent political change in highland Papua New Guinea / Bryant J. Allen -- Nomadic pastoralists and sedentary hosts in the central and western Hindukush Mountains, Afghanistan / Daniel Balland.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Mountain people.; Mountains--Réunion.; Mountains.; Nature--Effect of human beings on.