Overview
- Interdisciplinary approach
- Focus on crucial resource: water
- Focus on geographical area of mountains with international comparative perspective
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 31)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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General Concepts and Processes; Mountain Specificities
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Multiple Uses and Competition for Mountain Water
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Water Conflicts and Conflict Resolution Mechanisms
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Indigenous Knowledge; Technical Solutions
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Policy Implications for Efficient and Equitable Water Use
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"This book, the latest volume in the ‘Advances in Global Change Research’ series, is a compilation of presentations from a 2002 international scientific colloquium in Sion, Switzerland. … Readers can select any of the papers and find opening abstracts, well-written and scientifically supported text, and conclusions and/or recommendations. A bibliography lists over 500 entries. … is a valuable contribution to the literature on regulating water resources that emanate from mountain sources. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional water resource planning and management collections." (M. J. Zwolinski, CHOICE, Vol. 46 (1), September, 2008)
“This book addresses the diverse challenges facing water resources within mountain environments, including temporal and spatial variability … . Overall, the book contains useful and valuable examples and case study reports relating to a variety of water resource issues. … This volume presents a collection of interesting papers that are well presented; most images are of good quality. … it will be of value as a library reference source … .” (Neil Macdonald, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 29 (2), May, 2009)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge
Editors: Ellen Wiegandt
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6748-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6747-1Published: 21 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7712-7Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6748-8Published: 20 December 2007
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 386
Topics: Environment, general, Hydrology/Water Resources, Climate Change, Regional and Cultural Studies