Title: Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions
Description: The book brings together research results from the experts from all Balkan countries working on the problems of the mountain regions in Southeastern Europe. The volume focuses on the challenges taking place along the rapid transformation in land use, biodiversity, tourism, nature risk and bio-productivity due to the global changes and particularly due to the local impacts of climate change. The key questions for discussion are: - Biodiversity, nature protection and conservation - Natural disasters and risk management - Social-economical development of the mountain regions - Spatial planning in the development of the mountain regions - Sustainable practices and politics for land use - Transborder co-operation.
Subjects: Sustainable development, Mountains, Land use, europe, Biodiversity, Conservation of natural resources, Tourism, Land use, Balkan peninsula, social conditions, Physical geography, Climatic changes, Economic Geology, Earth sciences, Geography, Mountain ecology, Mountain biodiversity conservation, Protected areas, Environmental conditions, Social conditions, Social aspects