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This book looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and globalization. With a special focus on the Himalayas, it also examines the Czech-German-Austrian mountain borderland, the Alps, the Andes, the highland regions of Malaysia, and the Arctic. The contributors, specialists in their fields, all use an integrative approach that develops and argues the concept of mountain regions as a global common good. Readers also discover that mountain systems and mountain communities are often marginalized and left behind by the process of globalization. Case studies throughout detail the effects of climate change and global warming on both nature and local/regional societies, such as declining water supplies, a shifting vegetation line, and other important issues facing not only mountains but also the vast regions depending on them. In addition, the comprehensive coverage offers authenticated viewpoints from some of the most eminent explorers of Tibet in the nineteenth century. More than 50 percent of the global human population draws benefits directly or indirectly from mountain resources and services. This book provides practitioners, researchers, students, and other interested readers with a compelling look at the global importance of this imposing, yet sensitive ecosystem

The study sheds light on the positions of the Iraqi political parties and the US concerning Yezidi claims to their rights in Iraq after 2003, especially on how these rights were addressed in the post-war Iraqi constitution and includes the Kurdish nationalist parties' strategy to win Yezisi political support.

The study sheds light on the positions of the Iraqi political parties and the US concerning Yezidi claims to their rights in Iraq after 2003, especially on how these rights were addressed in the post-war Iraqi constitution and includes the Kurdish nationalist parties' strategy to win Yezisi political support.

Introduction : feminisms and the German political regimes -- Political opportunity structures and feminist protest in thought and practice: the German historical legacy and women's mobilization in East and West Germany, 1945-1989 -- The East German "stateless state" period and feminist mobilization -- The closing of the political opportunity structure and feminist differentiation -- A closed opportunity structure : German unification and "double gender marginalization" -- The East and West German women's movements and the German State -- Democratization without women : comparisons to other Eastern European Countries

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- MAPS -- TABLES -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Political Relations and Land Tenure Cycles in Santa Paula: Chumash Indians, Mexicans, and Anglo Americans -- CHAPTER TWO White Racism, Religious Segregation, and Violence against Mexicans, 1913 to 1930 -- CHAPTER THREE School Segregation: The Social Reproduction of Inequality, 1870 to 1934 -- CHAPTER FOUR Mexican Resistance to the Peonage System: Movements to Unionize Farm Labor -- CHAPTER FIVE Movements to Desegregate the Mexican Community, the 1940s and 1950s -- CHAPTER SIX The Segmentation of the Farm Labor Market, 1965 to 1976 -- CHAPTER SEVEN Interethnic City Council Politics: The Case of the Housing Cooperative Movement -- CHAPTER EIGHT Modern Racism: Social Apartness and the Evolution of a Segregated Society -- CHAPTER NINE The Impact of Anglo American Racism on Mexican-Origin Intragroup Relations -- CHAPTER TEN Historical Reconstruction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index