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Environmental Impacts of Mountaineering

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Penilaian

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This book investigates the consequences of mountaineering (hiking, trekking, climbing) on the natural environment. These consequences are divided into three groups: 1) transformations caused by the mountaineer’s, or other people’s, stay in a mountaineering region; 2) transformations caused by the mountaineer’s travel (movement) through a mountaineering region, with the consideration of the ground type (rock, rock and grass, grass, residual soil, snow, ice), and 3) transformations caused by the use of mountaineering equipment. Each of the three groups are examined individually for their direct interference with the environment, i.e. caused by the main activities of climbing, trekking and hiking (both for elite and mass mountaineering) and their indirect interference caused by auxiliary activity (mainly in the case of mass mountaineering). Auxiliary activity includes guide services, transport of equipment, use of base camp facilities and the delivery of artificial support equipment, andsupports the main activity. The consequences of mountaineering on the natural environment are characterized in terms of individual components of the environment (land relief, soil, vegetation, fauna, and landscape) and location/zone of mountaineering activity (hiking, trekking or climbing zone). Because of the connections and interdependence between particular components of the environment (biotic and abiotic), only preservation of each of them can bring the desired effect – a reduction in the negative impact of mountaineering. This book presents comprehensive research outcomes and serves as a platform for more detailed, future studies.

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Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
2108000322	EB0004341	333.7 Apo e	Central Library (OPAC)	Available

Detail Information

Series Title

SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science

Call Number

333.7 Apo e

Publisher

Switzerland : Springer Cham., 2021

Collation

xv, 63p.:ill

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-72667-6

Classification

333.7

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Environmental Management

Specific Detail Info

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