Montology Palimpsest: A Primer of Mountain Geographies

ISBN-13: 9783031132971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 506 str.

Fausto O. Sarmiento

Opis

This book introduces an innovative approach to sustainable and regenerative mountain development. Transdisciplinary to biophysical and biocultural scales, it provides answers to the "what, when, how, why, and where" that researchers question on mountains, including the most challenging: So What! Forwarding thinking in its treatment of core subjects, this decolonial, non-hegemonic volume inaugurates the Series with contributions of seasoned montologists, and invites the reader to an engaging excursion to ascend the rugged topography of paradigms, with the scaffolding hike of ambitious curiosity typical of mountain explorers.

Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. 

Introductory remarks ……………………………………….…………..……….…………………

Fausto O. Sarmiento

Part 1: The Pioneering Dimension

Chapter 2. ………………………………………………………………………….…………..….

Mountain Studies and Research in the Eighteenth Century: The Contributions  of Horace Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt to the Study of Mountains

Pere Sunyer

Chapter 3. ……………………………………………………………………………………...….

Mountain Development Adventure: The Hillary Model behind the Hillary Medal 

Seth Sicroff

Chapter 4. ………………………………………………………………………………..………..

Historical and Contemporary Contributions of the “Climber-Scientist” to Mountain Geography

Alton C. Byers

Part 2: The Human Dimension

Chapter 5. ……………………………………………………………………………………....…. Montology within Geopolitical and Cultural Appropriations: ‘Mountain’ as a Social Construct

Fausto O. Sarmiento

Chapter 6. ……………………………………………………………………………….……..….

Human Diversity, Identities, and Indigeneity in Contrasting Mountain Landscapes

Christoph Stadel and Hermann Kreutzmann

Chapter 7. ……………………………………………………………………………………...….

Mountain Landscapes as “Lifescapes”: Sustaining Traditional Biocultural Heritage and Supporting Resilience in the Asia-Pacific Region

Jessica Brown, Masahito Yoshida and Nobuko Inaba

Chapter 8. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

Urbanization and the Verticality of Rural–Urban Linkages in Mountains

Andreas Haller and Domenico Branca

Part 3: The Physical Dimension

Chapter 9. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

Trends of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Mountain Regions

Alexey Gunya and Lynn Resler

Chapter 10. ………………………………………………………………………………….…..….

Atmospheric Envelopes and Glacial Retreat

Keniuchi Ueno and Bob Nakileza

Chapter 11. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

Mountain Landslides – An Overview of Common Types and Future Impacts

Marten Geertsema and Irasema Alcántara-Ayala

Part 4: The Spiritual Dimension

Chapter 12. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

The Spiritual and Cultural Importance of Mountains

Edwin Bernbaum

Chapter 13. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

A Biocultural Ethic for Coinhabiting Mountainous Rivers 

Ricardo Rozzi

Chapter 14. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

High Altitude Archaeology and the Anthropology of Sacred Mountains: 25 Years of Explorations and Diseminations

María Constanza Ceruti

Part 5: The Biogeographical Dimension

Chapter 15. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

The Paleoecological View from the Mountains

Mark B. Bush

Chapter 16. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

Mountain Waterscapes: Geographies of Interactions, Transformations and Meanings

Carol P. Harden and Alfonso Fernández

Chapter 17. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

Biogeography of Knowledges in the Mountainous Anthropocene: Hybrid Conceptual and Practical Spaces within the GeoHumanities

Matteo Sartori and Andrés Moreira-Muñoz

Chapter 18. ……………………………………………………………………………………..….

O autorze

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).