• Contact: invited editor Dr. Teiji Watanabe, Hokkaido University, twata@ees.hokudai.ac.jp Global Warming and Sustainable Resources Use in Asian Mountains
  

  CONTENTS

  WATANABE, T: Preface Regional Issues of International Year of Mountains: Global Warming and Sustainable Use of mountain Resources in Asia. 1.

  IWATA,S., Y. AGETA, N. NAITO, A. SAKAI, C. NARAMA, and KARMA: Glacial Lakes and Their Outburst Flood Assessment in the Bhutan Himalaya. 3-17.

  SHIRAIWA, T. and S. A. TCHOUMITCHEV: Mountain Environment in Kamchatka: Physical Backgrounds and Recent Changes in the Climate and Glaciers. 19-30.

  TANAKA, N.: Distribution and Ecophysiological Traits of Dwarf-Bamboo Species and Impact of Climate Changes in Japan. 31-40.

  OHSAWA, M. and I. NITTA: Forest Zonation and Morphological Tree-traits along Latitudinal and Altitudinal Environmental Gradients in Humid Monsoon Asia. 41-52.

  KIKVIDZE, Z.: Facilitation and Competition in Alpine Plant Communities. 53-58.

  IVES, J.D., B. MESSERLI, and L. JANSKY: Mountain Research in South-Central Asia: An Overview of 25 Years of UNU's Mountain Project. 59-71.

  KOLLMAIR, M. and U. MULER-BOEKER: Forest and Trees: Changing Perspectives on a Natural Resource in the Nepal Himalaya. 73-84.

  INAMURA, T.: The Pastoralism in the Andes and the Himalayas. 85-102.

  XU Jianchu and A. WILKES: People and Ecosystems in Mountain Landscape of Northwest Yunnan, Southwest China: Causes of Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Degradation. 103-110.

  SHIRASAKA, S.: Changes in Shifting Cultivation in the Mountain Areas of the Southwestern Part of China. 111-127.

  MAKITA, H.: Traditional and Modern Use of the World Natural Heritage Areas in Japan, Shirakami-sanchi and Yakushima. 129-135.

  (For Inquiry:) Ms. Ryoko Morimoto, Global Environmental Research
  Association of International Research Initiatives for Environmental Studies (AIRIES)
  airies@airies.or.jp

Papers presented at Symposium Session S24, Fifth International Conference on Geomorphology, Tokyo, 26 August 2001.
Contact: invited editor Prof. Dr. Kazuomi Hirakawa, Hokkaido University, hkazu@ees.hokudai.ac.jp

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