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Environmental Impacts of Mountaineering - A Conceptual Framework (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Environmental Impacts of Mountaineering - A Conceptual Framework (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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This book investigates the consequences of mountaineering (hiking,
trekking, climbing) on the natural environment. These consequences
are divided into three groups: 1) transformations caused by the
mountaineer's, or other people's, stay in a mountaineering region;
2) transformations caused by the mountaineer's travel (movement)
through a mountaineering region, with the consideration of the
ground type (rock, rock and grass, grass, residual soil, snow,
ice), and 3) transformations caused by the use of mountaineering
equipment. Each of the three groups are examined individually for
their direct interference with the environment, i.e. caused by the
main activities of climbing, trekking and hiking (both for elite
and mass mountaineering) and their indirect interference caused by
auxiliary activity (mainly in the case of mass mountaineering).
Auxiliary activity includes guide services, transport of equipment,
use of base camp facilities and the delivery of artificial support
equipment, and supports the main activity. The consequences of
mountaineering on the natural environment are characterized in
terms of individual components of the environment (land relief,
soil, vegetation, fauna, and landscape) and location/zone of
mountaineering activity (hiking, trekking or climbing zone).
Because of the connections and interdependence between particular
components of the environment (biotic and abiotic), only
preservation of each of them can bring the desired effect - a
reduction in the negative impact of mountaineering. This book
presents comprehensive research outcomes and serves as a platform
for more detailed, future studies.
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