Mountain Ice and Water: Investigations of the Hydrologic Cycle in Alpine Environments (ISSN Book 21)

__Mountain Ice and Water: Investigations of the Hydrologic Cycle in Alpine Environments__ is a new volume of papers reviewed and edited by John Shroder, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, and Greg Greenwood, Director of the Mountain Research Initiative from Bern, Switzerland. Chapters in this book were derived from research papers that were delivered at the Perth III Conference on Mountains of our Future Earth in Scotland in October 2015. The conference was established to help develop the knowledge necessary to respond effectively to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change and to support transformations toward global sustainability in the coming decades. To this end, the conference and book have investigated the future situation in mountains from three points of view. (1) __Dynamic Planet:__ Observing, explaining, understanding, and projecting Earth, environmental, and societal system trends, drivers, and processes and their interactions to anticipate global thresholds and risks, (2) __Global Sustainable Development:__ Increasing knowledge for sustainable, secure, and fair stewardship of biodiversity, food, water, health, energy, materials, and other ecosystem services, and (3) __Transformations towards Sustainability__: Understanding transformation processes and options, assessing how these relate to human values, emerging technologies and social and economic development pathways, and evaluating strategies for governing and managing the global environment across sectors and scales.

Mountain Ice and Water: Investigations of the Hydrologic Cycle in Alpine Environments is a new volume of papers reviewed and edited by John Shroder, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, and Greg Greenwood, Director of the Mountain Research Initiative from Bern, Switzerland.

Chapters in this book were derived from research papers that were delivered at the Perth III Conference on Mountains of our Future Earth in Scotland in October 2015. The conference was established to help develop the knowledge necessary to respond effectively to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change and to support transformations toward global sustainability in the coming decades.

To this end, the conference and book have investigated the future situation in mountains from three points of view. (1) Dynamic Planet: Observing, explaining, understanding, and projecting Earth, environmental, and societal system trends, drivers, and processes and their interactions to anticipate global thresholds and risks, (2) Global Sustainable Development: Increasing knowledge for sustainable, secure, and fair stewardship of biodiversity, food, water, health, energy, materials, and other ecosystem services, and (3) Transformations towards Sustainability: Understanding transformation processes and options, assessing how these relate to human values, emerging technologies and social and economic development pathways, and evaluating strategies for governing and managing the global environment across sectors and scales.

• Derived from research papers delivered at the Perth III Conference on Mountains of our Future Earth in Scotland in October 2015
• Helps develop the knowledge necessary for responding effectively in coming decades to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change and tactics for global sustainability
• Provides the research community working on global change in mountains with a broader framework established by the Future Earth initiative

Content: Developments in Earth Surface Processes, 21Page ii Front MatterPage iii CopyrightPage iv List of ContributorsPages xi-xii Editorial ForewordPages xiii-xivJ.F. Shroder Jr., Gregory B. Greenwood Chapter 1 - The Drakensberg Escarpment as the Great Supplier of Water to South AfricaPages 1-46S.J. Taylor, J.W.H. Ferguson, F.A. Engelbrecht, V.R. Clark, S. Van Rensburg, N. Barker Chapter 2 - Mountain Area Glaciers of Russia in the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st CenturiesPages 47-129T. Khromova, G. Nosenko, A. Muraviev, S. Nikitin, L. Chernova, N. Zverkova Chapter 3 - Inorganic Chemistry in the Mountain Critical Zone: Are the Mountain Water Towers of Contemporary Society Under Threat by Trace Contaminants?Pages 131-154G. Le Roux, S.V. Hansson, A. Claustres Chapter 4 - Water and Sustainability in the Lake Mývatn Region of Iceland: Historical Perspectives and Current ConcernsPages 155-192R. Sigurðardóttir, A.E.J. Ogilvie, Á.D. Júlíusson, V. Hreinsson, M.T. Hicks Chapter 5 - Precipitation and Conifer Response in Semiarid Mountains: A Case From the 2012–15 Drought in the Great Basin, USAPages 193-238S. Strachan Chapter 6 - Impact of Hydropower on Mountain Communities in Teesta Basin of Eastern Himalaya, IndiaPages 239-277G. Choudhury Chapter 7 - Climate Vulnerability, Water Vulnerability: Challenges to Adaptation in Eastern Himalayan SpringshedsPages 279-308R. Seidler, G. Sharma, Y. Telwala Chapter 8 - Neotropical Mountains Beyond Water Supply: Environmental Services as a Trifecta of Sustainable Mountain DevelopmentPages 309-324F.O. Sarmiento Chapter 9 - What Future for Mountain Glaciers? Insights and Implications From Long-Term Monitoring in the Austrian AlpsPages 325-382A. Fischer, K. Helfricht, H. Wiesenegger, L. Hartl, B. Seiser, M. Stocker-Waldhuber IndexPages 383-388 "Covers major water and ice issues pertaining to planetary dynamics, sustainable development, and new thinking on mountain ice and water that help plan for an uncertain future in the face of climate change."--Back cover