This book looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and globalization.

This book looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and globalization.

This book provides an overview of marginality or marginalization, as a concept, characterizing a situation of impediments – social, political, economic, physi

Mountain areas cover almost one quarter of the earth's land surface, with a quarter of the global population living on them or very close by, and they are sourc

The definitions for 'marginality' and 'marginal regions' are vague and differ between academic disciplines. Marginal regions could however be characterized as r