Global Environmental Research Vol.6 No.1
CONTENTS
Vol.6 No.1
Preface Regional Issues of International Year of Mountains: Global Warning and Sustainable Use of Mountain Resources in Asia	Teiji WATANABE
Glacial Lakes and Their Outburst Flood Assessment in the Bhutan Himalaya	Shuji IWATA, Yutaka AGETA, Nozomu NAITO, Akiko SAKAI, Chiyuki NARAMA and KARMA
Mountain Environment in Kamchatka: Physical Backgrounds and Recent Changes in the Climate and Glaciers	Takayuki SHIRAIWA and Serguei A.TCHOUMITCHEV
Distribution and Ecophysiological Traits of Dwarf-Bamboo Species and Impact of Climate Changes in Japan	Nobuyuki TANAKA
Forest Zonation and Morphological Tree-traits along Latitudinal and Altitudinal Environmental Gradients in Humid Monsoon Asia	Masahiko OHSAWA and Ikuko NITTA
Facilitation and Competition in Alpine Plant Communities	Zaal KIKVIDZE
Mountain Research in South-Central Asia: An Overview of 25 Years of UNU's Mountain Project	Jack D.IVES,Bruno MESSERLI and Libor JANSKY
Forest and Trees: Changing Perspectives on a Natural Resource in the Nepal Himalaya	Michael KOLLMAIR and Ulrike MÜLLER-BÖKER
The Pastoralism in the Andes and the Himalayas	Tetsuya INOMURA
People and Ecosystems in Mountain Landscape of Northwest Yunnan,Southwest China: Causes of Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Degradation	Jianchu XU and Andreas WILKES
Changes in Shifting Cultivation in the Mountain Areas of the Southwestern Part of China	Shigeru SHIRASAKA
Traditional and Modern Use of the World Natural Heritage Areas in Japan, Shirakami-sanchi and Yakushima	Hajime MAKITA
Article
Interannual and Interdecadal Variations of Baiu Rainfall over the Yangtze-Huai River Basin in China and Central Japan and Their Relationship to the Atmospheric Circulation during 1951-1992	Zhenhao BAO, Takehiko MIKAMI, Edmond RANATUNGE and Yousay HAYASHI

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