Mountain world in danger : climate change in the mountains and forests of Europe
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書誌事項
Mountain world in danger : climate change in the mountains and forests of Europe
Earthscan in association with Alp Action and IIASA, 1991
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内容説明・目次
内容説明
The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the 20th century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the cryosphere) not only play a major part in our climatic system they are also central to our water supplies. Yet our glaciers are shrinking, our lakes and soils are becoming acidified, our forests are damaged and the whole ecosystems of the Alps and the Causcasus is threatened. Nilsson and Pitt explain the evidence and assess the probable effects upon mountain society, tourism, water, flora and fauna. They also examine the uncertainties. Above all they look, too, at the best possible strategies in response to what is happening and at what the next steps should be.
目次
- Climate change - facts and theories
- mountain and cryosphere situations
- climate change and mountain regions
- climate change and mountain forests
- what can be done?
- international responses. Appendices: impacts of climate change on seasonal snow cover, ice and permafrost and socioeconomic consequences - the IPCC conclusions
- second world climate conference - ministerial declaration
- mountains and the cryosphere - proposals for the world conservation strategy
- IPCC3 - report of the response strategies working group
- extract from second world climate conference - conference statement
- possible elements for inclusion in a framework convention on climate change
- the Bellerive initiative on alpine action.
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