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Informationen zum Autor Jack Shroder is an Editor-in-Chief at Elsevier, and has extensive experience with publishing peer-reviewed journal articles and books on numerous topics related to geomorphology and Afghanistan, among many other specialties. He is the author of over 200 scientific papers and books on geoscientific topics characteristic of high mountain environments, especially landslides, glaciers, and floods. Since 2004, Dr. Greenwood has been Executive Director of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), an international project office funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and focused on global change research in mountains worldwide. Prior to MRI, he served as Science Advisor to the Resources Secretary of California and Climate and Bioenergy Advisor for the California Department of Forestry. He has a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California at Davis, an M.S. in Range Science from Colorado State University and a B.A. in Geography from Middlebury College. He counts his time at the State of California as his post-doc in political reality. He is familiar with the Northern Appalachians, the Colorado Rockies, the Sierra Nevada and Cascades, the Swiss Alps, the Highlands of Western Cameroon, and selected portions of Tibet, the Karakorum and the Himalaya.
List of contents
1. The Great Escarpment of South Africa as the Supplier of Water
Sue Taylor
2. Recent Glacier Changes in Mountain Regions of Russia
Tatiana Khromova, Gennady Nosenko, Anton Muraviev, Stanislav Nikitin, Ludmila Chernova and Natalya Zverkova
3. Mountain Biogeochemistry: With Emphasis on Pollutant Biogeochemistry in Mountain Environments
Gaël Le Roux
4. Public Policy and Governance of Mountain Water: A Synthesis
Eric Lindquist and Monica Hubbard
5. Water and Sustainability in the Lake Mývatn Region of Iceland: An Historical Perspective
Astrid Ogilvie, Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir, Árni Daníel Júlíusson, Viðar Hreinsson and Megan T. Hicks
6. Precipitation and Conifer Response in Semi-Arid Mountains: a case from the 2012-2015 drought in the Great Basin, USA
Scotty Strachan
7. Impact of Hydropower on Mountain Communities in Tista Basin of Eastern Himalaya, India
Govinda Choudhury
8. Downstream Impacts of Changes in Water Flows in Eastern Himalaya
Reinmar Seidler
9. Tropical Mountains and the Water Trilemma: How Environmental Services can be a Trifecta of Sustainable Mountain Development
Fausto O. Sarmiento
10. Monitoring Strategies and Techniques of Mountain Glaciers and Permafrost, Hydrology of Glacier Covered Catchments, or Winter Tourism
Andrea Fischer
11. Mummies in the Ice: High Mountain Geoarchaeology
Constanza Ceruti
