Views from the Alps : regional perspectives on climate change /
"Although climate change is a global problem, there is growing recognition of the need to look at its regional manifestations and management. This book takes such an approach to the Alpine region. The result of the ongoing Swiss research program Climate and Environment in the Alpine Region [Cle...
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Politics, science, and the environment.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Dieter M. Imboden
- Current Alpine climate / Christoph Schär [and others]
- Alpine paleoclimatology / Guy S. Lister [and others]
- Future Alpine climate / Dimitrios Gyalistras [and others]
- Sensitivity of plant and soil ecosystems of the Alps to climate change / Jean-Paul Theurillat [and others]
- Vegetation responses to climate change in the Alps : modeling studies / Heike Lischke [and others]
- Innovative social responses in the face of global climate change / Berhard Truffer [and others]
- Regional integrated assessment and the problem of indeterminacy / Claudia Pahl-Wostl [and others].