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IHDP Update Issue 2, 2008

Mountainous Regions: Laboratories for Adaptation

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Introduction


Why Mountains Matter
Gregory Greenwood

IHDP Endorsed Research Network
The Mountain Research Initiative: From Theory to Practice
Claudia Drexler

Africa
The Chagga Homegardens on Kilimanjaro
Claudia Hemp, Andreas Hemp
Dimensions of Global Change in African Mountains: The Example of Mount Kenya
Boniface P. Kiteme, Hanspeter Liniger, Benedikt Notter, Urs Wiesmann, Thomas Kohler
Crop Yield Response to Climate Change in East Africa: Comparing Highlands and Lowlands
Philip Thornton, Peter Jones, Andrew Farrow, Gopal Alagarswamy, Jeffrey Andresen
Forest Governance Challenges on Mount Cameroon
Emmanuel O. Nuesiri

Americas
Society, Desertification and Climate Change in the Argentinean Chilean Central Andes Region
Elena María Abraham and Ricardo Villalba
Central Andean Foothill Farmers Facing Global Environmental Change
Elma Montaña
Responding to the Collapse of Mountain Ecosystem Health and Natural Resource Management Institutions in Peru
Gabriela López Sotomayor
Some Guidelines for Helping Natural Resources Adapt to Climate Change
Jill S. Baron, Susan Herrod Julius, Jordan M. West, Linda A. Joyce, Geoffrey Blate, Charles H. Peterson, Margaret Palmer, Brian D. Keller, Peter Kareiva, J. Michael Scott and Brad Griffith

Eurasia
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Pastoral Communities of Mongolia’s Central Mountainous Region
Chuluun Togtokh
Implications of Rangeland Enclosure Policy on the Tibetan Plateau
Grant Davidson, R.H. Behnke and C. Kerven
Redeveloping Mountain Landscapes as Cultural Cradles of Biodiversity
P.S. Ramakrishnan
Post Socialist Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in the Carpathian Mountains
Patrick Hostert, Tobias Kuemmerle, Volker C. Radeloff, and Daniel Müller
Strengthening Decision-Making Tools for Disaster Risk Reduction: An Example of an Integrative Approach from Northern Pakistan
Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, M. Jaboyedoff, A. Breguet, J. Dubois, P. Peduzzi, R. Qureshi, R. Jaubert

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