B Messerli, D Viviroli, R Weingartner - AMBIO: A Journal of the Human …, 2004 - Springer
Mountains as “Water Towers” play an important role for the surrounding lowlands. This is particularly true of the world's semiarid and arid zones, where the contributions of mountains …
Mountain areas provide disproportionally high runoff in many parts of the world, but their importance for water resources and food production has not been clarified from the …
Protecting the world's freshwater resources requires diagnosing threats over a broad range of scales, from global to local. Here we present the first worldwide synthesis to jointly …
BY QUIRIN SCHIERMEIER When pondering the best way to study the impact of climate change, researcher Hans Joachim Schellnhuber liked to recall an old Hindu fable. Six men …
The important role of mountains in supplying fresh water is discussed. Various case studies from Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Americas and Oceania are presented and the …
The location and persistence of surface water (inland and coastal) is both affected by climate and human activity 1 and affects climate 2, 3, biological diversity 4 and human wellbeing 5 …
D Viviroli, HH Dürr, B Messerli… - Water resources …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Mountains are important sources of freshwater for the adjacent lowlands. In view of increasingly scarce freshwater resources, this contribution should be clarified. While earlier …
Mountains are an essential component of the global life-support system. They are characterized by a rugged, heterogenous landscape with rapidly changing environmental …
Governments worldwide do not adequately protect their limited freshwater systems and therefore place freshwater functions and attendant ecosystem services at risk. The best …