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Living in the Mountains: The Wide Variety of Land Uses and Their Geo-ecological Consequences

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Mountain Environments: Changes and Impacts

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As we have already seen in Chap. 3, it is not easy to define what a mountain is. We all have an image of the contrast between a mountain range and the lowlands, or a volcano that rises sharply from the plain surrounding it, and we know how to distinguish an abrupt relief with steep slopes from a structural platform without the need for much explanation. But reality presents us with many nuances and makes apparently simple things become very complex.

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