>This is a scientifically definitive reference text on the organizational, institutional, and substantive aspects of research on mountain environments in Europe from the Pyrenees to Siberia conducted under the auspices of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Program. It presents the author's expert analyses of published and unpublished research supported by interviews and field visits to Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. For each country, the analysis focuses on its mountain regions and on the organization, research activities, and conclusions of UNESCO's MAB-6 project, "Impact of human activities on mountain and tundra ecosystems." The closing chapter evaluates that project's use of models, organizational and institutional issues, lessons for interdisciplinary research, and legacy for the future. In addition to a comprehensive index, this book has the most complete bibliography-over 200 references-ever compiled on this subject.
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme was the major international interdisciplinary research programme involving natural and social scientists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mountain biosphere reserves, four test areas, interdisciplinary research programmes, mountain ecosystems, rational land use, winter tourism, participating scientists, mountain research, summer tourism, temperate mountains, alpine ecosystems, tundra ecosystems, involved scientists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Park, Czech Republic, Academy of Sciences, Giant Mountains, Catalan Pyrenees, High Aragon, Soviet Union, Institute of Geography, Institute of Forestry Research, Far East, High Tatras, Institute of Botany, Institute of Ecology, Second World War, Stara Planina, European Communities, Massif Central, Russian Federation, Swiss Alps, Department of Geography, Ministry of Environment, Winter Olympic Games, Smallest Common Geometry, University of Bern, University of Innsbruck New!
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme was the major international interdisciplinary research programme involving natural and social scientists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mountain biosphere reserves, four test areas, interdisciplinary research programmes, mountain ecosystems, rational land use, winter tourism, participating scientists, mountain research, summer tourism, temperate mountains, alpine ecosystems, tundra ecosystems, involved scientists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Park, Czech Republic, Academy of Sciences, Giant Mountains, Catalan Pyrenees, High Aragon, Soviet Union, Institute of Geography, Institute of Forestry Research, Far East, High Tatras, Institute of Botany, Institute of Ecology, Second World War, Stara Planina, European Communities, Massif Central, Russian Federation, Swiss Alps, Department of Geography, Ministry of Environment, Winter Olympic Games, Smallest Common Geometry, University of Bern, University of Innsbruck New!
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- Ecology in Practice (Natural resources and the environment series) by F. Di Castri in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Far East by Himalayan International Institute on page 131, and page 132
- Modern Ecology by G. Esser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Exploiting the Tropical Rain Forest: An Account of Pulpwood Logging in Papua New Guinea (Man and the Biosphere Series) by D. Lamb in Front Matter
- Shifting Agriculture and Sustainable Development: An Interdisciplinary Study from North-Eastern India (Man and the Biosphere Series) by P.S. Ramakrishnan in Front Matter
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