Vanacker, Veerle
[UCL]
Mountain regions present unique challenges and opportunities to land-use change research. Very few, if any, mountain ecosystems remain unaffected by human impact, and evidence has mounted from several mountain ecosystems of accelerated degradation of the physical environment from human-induced water and wind erosion and slope-movement activity. This article reviews the major trends in land-use change and gives some striking examples of the impact of humans on sediment production and transport. The complexity of disentangling human-induced from natural process rates in mountainous regions is described, and some starting points for future research are identified
Bibliographic reference |
Vanacker, Veerle. Land Use and Sediment Yield. In: Shroder, J. (Editor in Chief), Marston, R.A., Stoffel, M. (Eds.),, Treatise on Geomorphology, vol. 7, Mountain and Hillslope Geomorphology, Academic Press : San Diego 2013, p. 132-137 |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/140392 |