Glacier Monitoring and Capacity Building: Important Ingredients for Sustainable Mountain Development

Glacier Monitoring and Capacity Building: Important Ingredients for Sustainable Mountain Development

Glacier observation data from major mountain regions of the world are key to improving our understanding of glacier changes: they deliver fundamental baseline information for climatological, hydrological, and hazard assessments. In many mountain ecosystems, as well as in the adjacent lowlands, glaci...

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Main Authors: Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Martin Hoelzle, Fabia Hüsler, Christian Huggel, Nadine Salzmann, Michael Zemp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Mountain Society 2017-02-01
Series:Mountain Research and Development
Subjects:
glacier monitoring
sustainable mountain development
capacity building
in situ measurements
remote sensing
Tropical Andes
Central Asia
Online Access:http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-15-00038.1

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