scholarly journals Mountains as a Global Heritage: Arguments for Conserving the Natural Diversity of Mountain Regions

Heritage ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhik Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Mountain Area ◽  
Mountain Environments ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Natural Diversity ◽  
To Come

This concise review posits the urgent need for conserving the natural diversity of mountain environments by envisioning mountains as a global natural heritage. Mountains are recognized as cradles of biodiversity and for their important ecosystem services. Mountains also constitute the second most popular outdoor destination category at the global level after islands and beaches. However, in the current age of accelerating global environmental change, mountain systems face unprecedented change in their ecological characteristics, and consequent effects will extend to the millions who depend directly on ecosystem services from mountains. Moreover, growing tourism is putting fragile mountain ecosystems under increasing stress. This situation requires scientists and mountain area management stakeholders to come together in order to protect mountains as a global heritage. By underlining the salient natural diversity characteristics of mountains and their relevance for understanding global environmental change, this critical review argues that it is important to appreciate both biotic and abiotic diversity features of mountains in order to create a notion of mountains as a shared heritage for humanity. Accordingly, the development of soft infrastructure that can communicate the essence of mountain destinations and a committed network of scientists and tourism scholars working together at the global level are required for safeguarding this shared heritage.

scholarly journals Telluric Recollection: On the Disappearance of History in Deep Time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Daniel Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Human History ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
To Come ◽  
Warming World

Since the turn of the millennium, the humanities have been progressively forced to come to terms with the materiality of a warming world, in particular the entanglement of natural environments with technical infrastructures that lies at the heart of anthropgenic environmental change, and its implications for the hithertofore seemingly impentetrable ontological wall of separation between natural and human history. In an effort to address the concomitant insufficiency of remaning solely at the discursive level, one such attempt has been to reorient the interpretative concerns of the humanities by submerging the modern subject into geological registers of deep time. This paper cautions that along with such a reorientation, however, any sense of a limit – such as a hermeneutical horizon belonging to human history – thereby disappears into the fundamental depthlessness of deep time, and the subject suddenly vanishes from the center of the global environmental drama. Ironically so, since the purported novelty of the globalization of technology is precisely the manner in which it highlights the anthropogenic dimension of global environmental change, and thus the deep time consequences of human action.

scholarly journals Special Issue: Environmental Flows, Ecological Quality, and Ecosystem Services

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 2760
Author(s):  
Carles Ibáñez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Invasive Species ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Flows ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Water Withdrawal ◽  
Ecological Quality ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Environmental

Global environmental change is greatly disturbing rivers and estuaries by a number of stressors, among which water withdrawal, damming, pollution, invasive species, and climate change are the most worrying [...]

Vulnerable populations, health inequalities, and nature

2018 ◽  
pp. 182-188
Author(s):  
Richard Mitchell ◽  
Julia Africa ◽  
Alan Logan
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Over Time

Vulnerable people are those whose characteristics and settings tend to render them less able to stay healthy and well. We assert that access to and use of nature plays a key role in reducing health inequalities stemming from vulnerability. First, we explore ways in which vulnerability might affect the likelihood of beneficial contact with nature. Second, we explore the idea that the health benefits of contact with nature may be greater for more vulnerable populations than for others, as an additional avenue for reducing health inequalities. Third, we consider changes in our relationships with nature over time, and their potential implications both for vulnerability and health. We conclude by noting that the burdens of global environmental change fall disproportionately on those considered vulnerable. Equitable access to nature and ecosystem services to support health and maintain resilience is a critical horizon for social justice in the twenty-first century.

Global Environmental Change and Agriculture

jpa ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Rawlins
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental

Political Consumerism for Sustainable Tourism

2018 ◽  
pp. 348-366
Author(s):  
Machiel Lamers ◽  
Jeroen Nawijn ◽  
Eke Eijgelaar
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Global Environmental

Over the last decades a substantial and growing societal and academic interest has emerged for the development of sustainable tourism. Scholars have highlighted the contribution of tourism to global environmental change and to local, detrimental social and environmental effects as well as to ways in which tourism contributes to nature conservation. Nevertheless the role of tourist consumers in driving sustainable tourism has remained unconvincing and inconsistent. This chapter reviews the constraints and opportunities of political consumerism for sustainable tourism. The discussion covers stronger pockets and a key weak pocket of political consumerism for sustainable tourism and also highlights inconsistencies in sustainable tourism consumption by drawing on a range of social theory arguments and possible solutions. The chapter concludes with an agenda for future research on this topic.

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