Table of Contents

Introduction Mountains: A Special Issue Physical Dynamics of Mountain Environments 1. Controls on Mountain Plant Diversity in Northern California: A 14,000-Year Overview 2. The Scientific Discovery of Glaciers in the American West 3. Incorporating Autonomous Sensors and Climate Modeling to Gain Insight into Seasonal Hydrometeorological Processes within a Tropical Glacierized Valley 4. How Rivers Get Across Mountains: Transverse Drainages 5. Geomorphometric Controls on Mountain Glacier Changes since the Little Ice Age in the Eastern Tien Shan, Central Asia 6. Some Perspectives on Avalanche Climatology 7. Characteristics of Precipitating Storms in Glacierized Tropical Andean Cordilleras of Peru and Bolivia 8. On the Production of Climate Information in the High Mountain Forests of Guatemala 9. Retreating Glaciers, Incipient Soils, Emerging Forests: 100 Years of Landscape Change on Mount Baker, Washington, USA Coupled Human-Physical Dynamics 10. Impacts of Glacier Recession and Declining Meltwater on Mountain Societies 11. Agro-environmental Transitions in African Mountains: Recent Land Use and Livelihood Changes amid State-Led Commercialization in Rwanda 12."Water is life": local perceptions of páramo grasslands and land management strategies associated with payment for ecosystem services 13. Natural Hazard Management from a Coevolutionary Perspective: Exposure and Policy Response in the European Alps 14. Bringing the Hydrosocial Cycle into Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Lessons from Two Andean Mountain Water Towers 15. Nanga Parbat Revisited: Evolution and Dynamics of Sociohydrological Interactions in the Northwestern Himalaya 16. Applied Montology using Critical Biogeography in the Andes 17. Snowlines and Treelines in the Tropical Andes 18. Mountain Ecology, Remoteness, and the Rise of Agrobiodiversity: Tracing the Geographic Spaces of Human–Environment Knowledge Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Mountain Regions 19. Heritage as Weapon: Contested Geographies of Conservation and Culture in the Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area, India 20. Perestroika to Parkland: The Evolution of Land Protection in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan 21. Harnessing the State: Social Transformation, Infrastructural Development, and the Changing Governance of Water Systems in the Kangra District of the Indian Himalayas 22. Living with Earthquakes and Angry Deities at the Himalayan Borderlands 23. The Sacred Mountain Shiveet Khairkhan (Bayan Ölgiy aimag, Mongolia) and the Centering of Cultural Indicators in the Age of Nomadic Pastoralism 24. Mountain Agriculture for Global Markets: The Case of Greenhouse Floriculture in Ecuador 25. Mountainous Terrain and Civil Wars: Geospatial Analysis of Conflict Dynamics in the Post-Soviet Caucasus 26. Making Mountain Places into State Spaces: Infrastructure, Consumption, and Territorial Practice in a Himalayan Borderland 27. Khumbi yullha and the Beyul: Sacred Space and the Cultural Politics of Religion in Khumbu, Nepal

About the Author

Mark Fonstad is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, USA. He specializes in studies of riverine and mountain environments. His areas of research are the physical geography of rivers and mountains, the fusion of physical geography with geographic information science, geomorphology, hydrology, and remote sensing.