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Title Views from the Alps : regional perspectives on climate change / edited by Peter Cebon ... [and others]
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description xv, 515 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Politics, science, and the environment
Politics, science, and the environment.
Contents 1. Introduction / Dieter M. Imboden -- 2. Current Alpine Climate / Christoph Schar, Trevor D. Davies and Christoph Frei [et al.] -- 3. Alpine Paleoclimatology / Guy S. Lister, David M. Livingstone and Brigitta Ammann [et al.] -- 4. Future Alpine Climate / Dimitrios Gyalistras, Christoph Schar and Huw C. Davies [et al.] -- 5. Sensitivity of Plant and Soil Ecosystems of the Alps to Climate Change / Jean-Paul Theurillat, Francois Felber and Patricia Geissler [et al.] -- 6. Vegetation Responses to Climate Change in the Alps: Modeling Studies / Heike Lischke, Antoine Guisan and Andreas Fischlin [et al.] -- 7. Innovative Social Responses in the Face of Global Climate Change / Bernhard Truffer, Peter Cebon and Gregor Durrenberger [et al.] -- 8. Regional Integrated Assessment and the Problem of Indeterminacy / Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Carlo C. Jaeger and Steve Rayner [et al.]
Summary 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 [Clear], it incorporates the work of an independent network of approximately fifty researchers from a variety of disciplines
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Climatic changes -- Alps Region.
SUBJECT Alps Region http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98002363 -- Climate. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007747
Author Cebon, Peter.
LC no. 98003946
ISBN 026203252X (alk. paper)