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The tourism industry is striving hard to create attractive worlds for its customers. Both as a necessity and as a challenge, this field is overwhelmed by the imagination economy, but raises several questions about tourists, providing opportunities to move deeper into the understanding of complexities involved in relationships among tourists, tourism sites and their historical structure, and environmental sustainability. As a result of this, a serious academic interest in tourism has developed over recent decades as a complex aspect of investigation into humans and their environment. This volume brings together case studies from different parts of the world, focusing on tourism and its interactions with the environment. It provides a general outline of theoretical issues and their practicality in different industrialising countries from both the East and the West. The book will appeal to researchers involved in tourism studies and environmental interactions, as well as academicians and tourism agencies.

Human demand for energy has grown multi-folds in recent years. This is the result of rapidly increasing human population, which, in turn, has resulted in increased organic (petroleum) and inorganic pollution on the biosphere. Due to this, we are now facing a number of challenges to sustain life on earth. For example, the increased organic and inorganic pollution in our environment is leading to loss of biodiversity, degradation of environment and thus ultimately causing food insecurity. In this situation, it is imperative to keep updated ourselves with advances on the effects of pollutants, tolerance mechanisms and the potential of different plants and microbes in removing these pollutants from the environment. For this purpose, we invited a number of scientists worldwide to review the current scenario of the problems, current development, and future prospects of the challenges and their solutions in an International Conference on ''Plants and Environmental Pollution'' held in KAYSERI, TURKEY from 6-11 July 2009. The output of this conference has been summarized in the form of this book.

Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation in Palestine -- Lichens of the Negev Desert (Israel) - Diversity, distribution, and of the relationship with microclimate -- Lichens: Characteristics, importance, uses, distribution in Turkey -- Endangered swamp forests in Turkey - An ecological inventory, prospects and challenges -- Forest fires and sustainability in Mediterranean ecosystems -- Turkey's Wild Orchids -- Agrodiversity in Turkey: Case study on Rice -- Pepper Agrodiversity in West Asia -- Promising small molecules against cancer from Ganoderma genus -- The Vertebrate Biodiversity of Turkey -- Medicinal Plants of Northeast Anatolia -- Main Problems of the Sustainable Development of the South Caucasus and Processes of Transformation of Landscapes (Ecosystems) Biodiversity -- Forest cover for the safety of biosphere and environment -- Agrodiversity and Sustainable Development -- Plant Diversity and General Vegetation of Georgia -- Faunal Diversity in Georgia- General Perspective -- An Overview of the Plant Diversity of Azerbaijan -- Agrobiodiversity of Azerbaijan -- Faunal diversity of Azerbaijan -- Genus Crataegus (Rosaceae) in the flora of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan -- Herbals used in Western Iran as food and for health treatments -- Fish Fauna in the Amur Water System of the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia -- Paleogeography of Caspian Sea, Water Level Fluctuations and Consequences on the Environment and Civilization.

This book covers studies on the systematics of plant taxa and will include general vegetational aspects and ecological characteristics of plant life at altitudes above 1000 m. from different parts of the world. This volume also addresses how upcoming climate change scenarios will impact high altitude plant life. It presents case studies from the most important mountainous areas like the Himalayas, Caucasus and South America covering the countries like Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Kirghizia, Georgia, Russia,Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Americas. The book will serve as an

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Part I: Ecology -- Chapter 1: Current Status of Vegetation of the Dried Bottom of the Aral Sea -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Data Evaluation -- 1.3 Observations -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- 1.4.1 The Dynamics of the Formation of Plant Biomass on the Dried Bottom of the Aral Sea -- 1.4.2 Mapping of Vegetation of the Dried Bottom of the Aral Sea -- 1.4.3 Experiment on the Fixation of Shifting Sands of Dried Bottom of the Aral Sea -- 1.5 Recommendations -- References -- Chapter 2: Role of Grasslands in Soil Carbon Storage: Case Study from Alpine Grasslands of North-Western Kashmir Himalaya -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Grasslands of North-Western Kashmir Himalaya: Brief Overview -- 2.3 Study Area -- 2.4 Data Evaluation -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: The Importance of Forest for Soil, Food, and Climate Security in Asia -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Forest: Global Overview -- 3.3 Deforestation: A Global Challenge -- 3.4 Invasive Species: An Ecological Driver for Forest Change -- 3.5 Forest at Risk Due to Civilian Conflicts -- 3.6 Climate Change Impact on Forest -- 3.7 Forests for Climate Change Mitigation -- 3.8 Forests for Soil Management -- 3.9 Forest for Food and Nutritional Security -- 3.10 Forest Management in Asia Through FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) -- 3.11 Policy, Governance, and Future Road Map -- 3.12 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: The Vegetation of the Pamir-Alay Mountainous System in Middle Asia -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Flora -- 4.3 Vegetation -- 4.4 Description of the Florocenotypes of the Pamir-Alay Mountain Range -- References -- Chapter 5: Plant Diversity and Species Distribution Pattern Across the Pir Panjal Mountain Forest Range in the Western Himalayas -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Study Area -- 5.3 Data Analysis.

Sustainable development is the key for the survival in 21st century. The natural resources are finite and cannot be used with impunity because we are the custodian of these resources and have responsibility to pass these to the next generation. This monumental task requires several major commitments and most important of them is to arrest population explosion which has already reached seven billion. Natural resources like air to breath, food to eat, and water to drink, and fossil fuel to maintain this life style are being overexploited. Unrestrained consuming culture will accelerate undesired

Papers presented at the International Workshop on "Urbanization, Land Use, Land Degradation and Environment", jointly organized by Pamukkale University, Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Organization and the Center for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries during 28th September-1st October 2009 in Denizil, Turkey