Mountains

Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 37-70

  Slaymaker, Olav ^a   Embleton Hamann, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HAZARDS; SEDIMENTS; SLOPE STABILITY; SOILS; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES; VEGETATION;

CLIMATIC REGIMES; CONSERVATION VALUES; CULTIVATED SOILS; LOW TEMPERATURES; TERRESTRIAL SURFACE; TRANSPORT ROUTES; UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT; VEGETATION COVER;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 77952968534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511627057.003     Document Type: Chapter

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