climate change
Conservation International has declared the Western Ghats Mountains as one of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots in the world. The Western Ghats of southwestern India and the highlands of southwestern Sri Lanka are strikingly similar in their geology, climate and evolutionary history. Together, they form one of the most densely populated of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots. This hotspot is...
Most of the world's mountain areas have a long history of human influence and development and in the Carpathian Mountains (Europe) there has been several thousand years of human impact. Human adaptation to environmental gradients and limitations (elevation zones, seasonal weather changes etc.) has created a vertical system of land use in mountain areas. Expansion of forests into previous...
Pastoralism is an age-old livelihood option for millions of people of different castes and ethic groups and makes a significant contribution to the economy of the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH), both in terms of providing employment and income opportunities and in supplying nutrition to the rural poor. Bakrawals, Gujjars, Gaddis, Kanets, Kaulis and Kinnauras of the north Indian Himalayas, Bhotias...
Disjunctions in scale, effect, and direction of forcing are characteristic of how global environmental change alters and interacts with landscapes in regards to land cover, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and sustainable land use. Many effects are subtle, indirect, or best characterized as thresholds, wherein change at first modest is followed by abrupt shifts in rate or mode. In the tropics...
Is climate change an opportunity or a threat in the mountains?An evaluation of the Central Andean region of Peru
The various documents prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climatic Changes (IPCC) indicates that for the coming years there will be an increase in temperature of some degrees, a rise between 1,8 to 4º C, as a best estimate. This increase could cause an increase in...

