Mountains of Northern Europe: Conservation, Management, People and NatureThe Stationery Office, 2005 M10 3 - 416 pages This publication contains the proceedings of an international conference, held in Pitlochry, Scotland in November 2002, to mark the UN International Year of Mountains 2002. The conference participants discussed the state of current knowledge about the mountains of Northern Europe and considered issues arising from the interactions between people and nature, and the conservation and sustainable development activities needed to benefit the natural heritage of mountain regions in the UK, Norway and Sweden, Finland and Iceland. |
Contents
a case | 23 |
MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS PERSPECTIVES | 39 |
the nature of change | 71 |
Contemporary and historical pollutant status of Scottish mountain | 97 |
Modelling future climates in the Scottish Highlands an approach | 103 |
People recreation and the mountains with reference to the Scottish | 127 |
LAND USE CHANGE | 137 |
The use and management of Norwegian mountains reflected | 151 |
Multipurpose management in the mountains of Northern Europe | 227 |
Ownership in the mountains of Northern Scandinavia and | 251 |
lessons learned | 275 |
ethical and aesthetic issues | 291 |
PROSPECTS | 303 |
Delimitation of mountain areas for the purpose of developing | 325 |
Frozen opportunities? Local communities and the establishment | 335 |
Outdoor education and outdoor recreation in Scotland | 349 |
Landscape history and biodiversity conservation in the uplands | 163 |
Terrain sensitivity on high mountain plateaux in the Scottish | 185 |
a tool | 191 |
evaluating | 197 |
Some lessons from the ECN GLORIA and SCANNET networks | 213 |
a ScandinavianNorth European network of terrestrial | 359 |
identifying areas for restoration | 365 |
Priorities for the conservation and management of the natural | 371 |
Personal reflections on the conference | 377 |
Common terms and phrases
Abernethy Forest activities agriculture alpine altitude Arctic Assessment biodiversity Birks C.A. Galbraith Cairngorms Cairngorms National Park Calluna Centre chapter climate change communities D.B.A. Thompson deer deposition ecological economic Edinburgh effects Environment environmental erosion European Fennoscandia Figure forest Fulufjället future geodiversity geomorphological global grassland grazing habitats HadRM3 Holocene human Iceland impact important increased influence International land livestock Loch Lochnagar long-term M.F. Price monitoring montane mountain areas mountain ecosystems mountain regions Mountains of Northern National Park Nature Conservation nitrogen Northern Europe Norway outdoor education ownership plant policies pollutants population potential precipitation Price & C.A. production programme protection Racomitrium lanuginosum recreation reindeer Research RSPB rural Saami SCANNET scenarios Scottish Highlands Scottish Natural Heritage sediments semi-natural skiing snowmobiling social soil species sustainable development Sweden Swedish temperature tourism TSO Scotland uplands Vatnajökull vegetation visitors wild woodland zone