FIG. i-The blast of air-that precedes the avalanche (foreground) has destroyed the trees on
this slope. FIG. 2-The rectangular white patches are grainfields, situated on the ubac …

N his paper" Height Limits of Mountain Economies" in the Geographical Review Peattiel has
made some interesting remarks about the difficulty of determining definite altitudinal zones …

The geographic study of mountains has marked time since the 1930s. The reasons for this
are: 1) neglect of the regional approach in geography; 2) lack of clarity in determining the …

We thank the authors for their most stimulating publication in MRD, Vol 21 No 1. We are
persuaded that we need new definitions of moun-tains-definitions that answer precise …

AMAN may live a lifetime in a group of mountains and not complete the study of that single
group. So much is there to know in geology, morphology, climate, plant ecology, and human …

Western society has become increasingly fascinated with mountains since the second half of
the nineteenth century, yet this fascination with some of the world's most dramatic …

Price's (1981) monograph Mountains and man is the most significant publication in this field
in the post war period. Peattie's Mountain geography (1936) was the most recent previous …

The author studies the demographic development in the French mountains, in the twentieth
century. Before 1945, emigration led to a general population decrease except in a few …

EVER since Hiram, King of Tyre, shipped rafts of fir and cedar clown the Mediterranean
Coast to trade with the Jews of Solomon's day, timber has been an important factor in the …

Many counties in the mountainous areas of the western US are experiencing rapid growth in
population and income, even though extractive industries that served historically as their …