This book looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and globalization. With a special focus on the Himalayas, it also examines the Czech-German-Austrian mountain borderland, the Alps, the Andes, the highland regions of Malaysia, and the Arctic. The contributors, specialists in their fields, all use an integrative approach that develops and argues the concept of mountain regions as a global common good. Readers also discover that mountain systems and mountain communities are often marginalized and left...
This book looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and glob...
This book provides an overview of marginality or marginalization, as a concept, characterizing a situation of impediments social, political, economic, physical, and environmental that impact the abilities of many people and societies to improve their human condition. It examines a wide range of examples and viewpoints of societies struggling with poverty, social inequality and marginalization.
Though the book will be especially interesting for those looking for insights into the situation and position of ethnic groups living in harsh mountainous conditions in the Himalayan region,...
This book provides an overview of marginality or marginalization, as a concept, characterizing a situation of impediments social, political, econom...
