Overview
- Conceptual re-framing of mountain geography in space and time continuum rather than static elements
- Presents structure, function and change of the mountainscape as one integral entity
- Redefines mountains as contentious landscape constructs in broader socio-ecological terms
- Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com
Part of the book series: Montology (M, volume 1)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Pioneering Dimension
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Front Matter
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The Human Dimension
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Front Matter
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The Biogeographical Dimension
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Front Matter
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About this book
Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Dr. Fausto O. Sarmiento has been involved in major disciplinary and institutional change processes to promote sustainable development in mountain environments and in restructuring evaluation criteria used for landscape conservation in the Tropical Andes. He was Regional Editor for Latin America for the journal Mountain Research and Development, and is Editorial Board member of Pirineos, the Journal of Mountain Ecology, the Journal of Mountain Science, the Journal of High Andean Research and the Annals of the AAG. He serves in advisory boards of global mountain organizations and represented the International Human Dimension Program of Global Environmental Change to the Science Board of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI). He was chair of the Mountain Geography Specialty Group (2002-3 and 2014-5) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), is chair of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Mountain Studies (IGU), and former president of the Andean Mountains Association (AMA). Currently, he is deputy Vice Chair (Capacity Building) of the Mountain Biome of the World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA), member of the Board of the Satoyama Initiative of the United Nations University (UNU), member of the board of the Earth Ethics Institute (EEI) and member of the Protected Landscapes Task Force in the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Montology Palimpsest
Book Subtitle: A Primer of Mountain Geographies
Editors: Fausto O. Sarmiento
Series Title: Montology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13298-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13297-1Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13300-8Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13298-8Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-345X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3468
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 506
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 119 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape Ecology, Community & Population Ecology, Geology, Ecology