caa a22 4500 467918198 CHVBK 20180406152909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-006-9091-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-006-9091-9 Adaptive Governance and Climate Change in the Tropical Highlands of Western South America [Elektronische Daten] [Kenneth Young, Jennifer Lipton] Climate changes occurring during the past several decades in the high elevations of the tropical Andes Mountains have implications for the native plant and animal species, for the ecological integrity of the affected land cover, and for the human-biophysical systems involved. Consequences are also probable for rural inhabitants and their livelihoods, especially for farmers and pastoralists. Biophysical factors have always changed in these mountainous zones; the extent and degree of alteration acting on native and agricultural biodiversity is the concern. Addressing these climate changes is probably within the adaptive capacity of many local land-use systems, unless external socioeconomic or political forces are unsupportive or antagonistic. Suitable programs to provide information, subsidies, or alternatives could be designed. We highlight some of the inherent resiliencies of natural and cultural systems in the Andes and suggest that these systems contain lessons that could be useful elsewhere, in terms of the traits that allow for the sustainable utilization of dynamic and heterogeneous landscapes. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Young Kenneth Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX, U.S.A aut Lipton Jennifer Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX, U.S.A aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/1(2006-09-01), 63-102 0165-0009 78:1<63 2006 78 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9091-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9091-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Young Kenneth Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lipton Jennifer Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/1(2006-09-01), 63-102 0165-0009 78:1<63 2006 78 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer