Mountain Ice and Water, Volume 21

1. The Great Escarpment of South Africa as the Supplier of Water
   Sue Taylor
   2. Recent Glacier Changes in Mountain Regions of Russia 
   Tatiana Khromova, Gennady Nosenko, Anton Muraviev, Stanislav Nikitin, Ludmila Chernova and Natalya Zverkova
   3. Mountain Biogeochemistry: With Emphasis on Pollutant Biogeochemistry in Mountain Environments
   Gaël Le Roux
   4. Public Policy and Governance of Mountain Water: A Synthesis
   Eric Lindquist and Monica Hubbard
   5. Water and Sustainability in the Lake Mývatn Region of Iceland:  An Historical Perspective
   Astrid Ogilvie, Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir, Árni Daníel Júlíusson, Viðar Hreinsson and Megan T. Hicks
   6. Precipitation and Conifer Response in Semi-Arid Mountains: a case from the 2012-2015 drought in the Great Basin, USA
   Scotty Strachan
   7. Impact of Hydropower on Mountain Communities in Tista Basin of Eastern Himalaya, India
   Govinda Choudhury
   8. Downstream Impacts of Changes in Water Flows in Eastern Himalaya
   Reinmar Seidler
   9. Tropical Mountains and the Water Trilemma: How Environmental Services can be a Trifecta of Sustainable Mountain Development
   Fausto O. Sarmiento
   10. Monitoring Strategies and Techniques of Mountain Glaciers and Permafrost, Hydrology of Glacier Covered Catchments, or Winter Tourism
   Andrea Fischer
   11. Mummies in the Ice:  High Mountain Geoarchaeology
   Constanza Ceruti
   

Mountain Ice and Water: Investigations of the Hydrologic Cycle in Alpine Environments is a new volume of papers reviewed and edited by John Shroder, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, and Greg Greenwood, Director of the Mountain Research Initiative from Bern, Switzerland.

Chapters in this book were derived from research papers that were delivered at the Perth III Conference on Mountains of our Future Earth in Scotland in October 2015. The conference was established to help develop the knowledge necessary to respond effectively to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change and to support transformations toward global sustainability in the coming decades.

To this end, the conference and book have investigated the future situation in mountains from three points of view. (1) Dynamic Planet: Observing, explaining, understanding, and projecting Earth, environmental, and societal system trends, drivers, and processes and their interactions to anticipate global thresholds and risks, (2) Global Sustainable Development: Increasing knowledge for sustainable, secure, and fair stewardship of biodiversity, food, water, health, energy, materials, and other ecosystem services, and (3) Transformations towards Sustainability: Understanding transformation processes and options, assessing how these relate to human values, emerging technologies and social and economic development pathways, and evaluating strategies for governing and managing the global environment across sectors and scales.

• Derived from research papers delivered at the Perth III Conference on Mountains of our Future Earth in Scotland in October 2015
• Helps develop the knowledge necessary for responding effectively in coming decades to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change and tactics for global sustainability
• Provides the research community working on global change in mountains with a broader framework established by the Future Earth initiative

Academic researchers, International aid agencies (e.g. UN, World Bank, and NGOs)