Bruno Messerli

Datos Biográficos

ID3671479
NOMBREBruno Messerli
NOMBRESBruno
APELLIDOMesserli
FIRMAMESSERLI B
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bern
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS32
TOTAL DE CITAS56
TOTAL COMO AUTOR32
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1981
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2016
ÍNDICE H3

  • Obituary for a Mountain Champion

    Open AccessJack D Ives, Bruno Messerli et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2016

    Obituary

  • The Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal 2015

    Open AccessBruno MesserliARTICLEMountain Research and Development2015

    Jack D. Ives Is the First Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

  • Global Change and the World's Mountains

    Open AccessBruno MesserliARTICLEMountain Research and Development2012

    The history of mountain research is most fascinating. Three names for 3 centuries may give an idea of the growing knowledge about the world's mountains: Horace Bénédict de Saussure, who climbed and studied the Mont Blanc in 1787; Alexander von Humboldt, ever investigating the environment during his attempt to ascend the Chimborazo in 1802; and Carl Troll, who founded the International Geographical Union's Commission on High-altitude Geoecology in…

  • Mountains of the world, water towers for humanity

    Open AccessDaniel Viviroli, Hans H Dürr et al.ARTICLEWater Resources Research2007

    Mountains are important sources of freshwater for the adjacent lowlands. In view of increasingly scarce freshwater resources, this contribution should be clarified. While earlier studies focused on selected river systems in different climate zones, we attempt here a first spatially explicit, global typology of the so‐called “water towers” at the 0.5° × 0.5° resolution in order to identify critical regions where disproportionality of mountain runo…

  • MRI Newsletter 3

    Open AccessBettina Büchler, Ray Bradley et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2004

    First results from field measurements leave no doubt; the extreme warm and dry weather conditions in the summer of 2003 had a profound impact on Alpine glaciers. According to data from global glacier monitoring programs, the thickness of European Alpine glaciers decreased roughly 5 times more than the average loss per year recorded during the already exceptionally warm period 1980–2000. This makes the loss of one single year about an order of mag…

  • Mountains of the World

    Bruno Messerli, Daniel Viviroli et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2004Citada por: 5Referencias: 8

  • The Himalayan Dilemma

    Jack D Ives, Bruno MesserliBOOKThe Himalayan dilemma2003Citada por: 45

    `This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.' Geography` ... an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of environmental studies and international development ... It is indeed, a book appropriate to the urgent and critical issues which it addresses.' - Journal of Environmental Management

  • Assessing the Hydrological Significance of the World's Mountains

    Open AccessDaniel Viviroli, Rolf Weingartner et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2003

    Mountains and highlands are often called the world's natural “water towers” because they provide essential freshwater for populations both upstream and downstream. Despite this, knowledge about the significance of mountains in the hydrological cycle is still uncertain. The present article takes a regional approach, using case studies to assess and compare the hydrological significance of mountains. Methods are developed based on the experience ga…

  • Remarks Delivered by Professor Bruno Messerli at the Official IYM2002 Launch

    Open AccessBruno MesserliARTICLEMountain Research and Development2002

    Bruno Messerli was one of the key actors responsible for the inclusion of Chapter 13 (sustainable mountain development) in Agenda 21 and is still a leading proponent of mountain issues and concerns at the international level. He was invited by FAO, the UN Task Manager for IYM2002, to submit the speech he delivered at the IYM launch as part of this contribution to MountainPlatform. Ed

  • Mountains of the world

    Bruno Messerli, Jack D IvesBOOKMountains of the world1997

  • Mid-Holocene Climate and Culture Change in the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile

    Open AccessMartín Grosjean, Lautaro Núñez et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research1997

    Twenty archaeological campsites intercalated between more than 30 debris flows caused by heavy rainfall events between 6200 and 3100 14 C yr B.P. have recently been discovered at Quebrada Puripica in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. This record provides detailed information about extreme, short-lived climatic events during the hyperarid mid-Holocene period. For the first time, we found evidence of continuous human occupation in this area, fi…

  • Water Availability, Protected Areas, and Natural Resources in the Andean Desert Altiplano

    Open AccessBruno Messerli, Martín Grosjean et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development1997

    Bruno Messerli, Martin Grosjean, Mathias Vuille, Water Availability, Protected Areas, and Natural Resources in the Andean Desert Altiplano, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 17, No. 3, The United Nations University. Managing Fragile Ecosystems in the Andes (Aug., 1997), pp. 229-238

  • Mid- and late-Holocene limnogeology of Laguna del Negro Francisco, northern Chile, and its palaeoclimatic implications

    Open AccessMartín Grosjean, Blas L Valero-Garcés et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene1997Citada por: 6Referencias: 2

    Lacustrine sediments from the high elevation, endorheic, saline lake Negro Francisco (27°28'S/69°14'W, 4125 m) provide a detailed mid- and late-Holocene environmental history of the Southern Chilean Altiplano. Mineralogy, chemical composition and sedimentary facies analyses of the deposits confirm the regional significance of mid-Holocene aridity between 6000 and 3800 BP. Precipitation rates were signifi cantly lower than the c. 250 mm yr -1 of t…

  • Cambios ambientales holocénicos en la Puna de Atacama y sus implicancias paleoclimáticas

    Open AccessLautaro Núñez, Lautaro Núñez Atencio et al.ARTICLEEstudios Atacameños Arqueología y…1997

    Estudios multidisciplinarios han permitido reconstruir los cambios extremos en el balance hídrico experimentados en la Puna de Atacama durante el Holoceno. La intensificación del monzón de verano (invierno boliviano) aumentó la precipitación de origen continental en la región hasta los 25o S durante el Tardiglacial/Holoceno Temprano. La precipitación en la región de los Andes occidentales (24o S) se incrementó hasta 500 mm por año en comparación …

  • Holocene environmental changes in the Atacama Altiplano and paleoclimatic implications

    Open AccessMartín Grosjean, Bruno Messerli et al.ARTICLEBulletin de l’Institut français…1995

    Strengthened summer monsoon brought tropical/continental moisture as far south as 25oS during late-glacial and early Holocene times. Precipitation rates in the Altiplano of the western Andes (24oS) increased to 500 mm yr-1 compared to <200 mm yr-1 today. There is evidence of dramatically decreasing lake levels between 8 400 and about 3 000 yr B.P., and conditions drier than today were established. This arid period was interrupted by low-frequency…

  • Mountain environments ? a reaction

    Open AccessBruno MesserliARTICLEGeoJournal1994

  • Climate Change and Natural Resource Dynamics of the Atacama Altiplano during the Last 18,000 Years

    Open AccessBruno Messerli, Martín Grosjean et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development1993

  • Climate, Environmental Change, and Resources of the African Mountains from the Mediterranean to the Equator

    Open AccessBruno Messerli, Matthias WinigerARTICLEMountain Research and Development1992

    During the last 20,000 years, the mountains of Africa between the Mediterranean and the equator have experienced significant climatic changes with important consequences for the vegetation and resource potential. At about 18,000 B. P. present altitudinal belts were depressed and the zonation of climate and vegetation was changed considerably. In the Holocene, higher temperatures led not only to more humid conditions but also to an uplifting of al…

  • Die Veränderungen von Klima und Umwelt in der Region Atacama (Nordchile) seit der Letzten Kaltzeit

    Open AccessBruno Messerli, Et AlARTICLEErdkunde1992

  • The Himalayan Dilemma

    Open AccessPradyumna P Karan, Jack D Ives et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1991

  • Progress in Theoretical and Applied Mountain Research, 1973-1989, and Major Future Needs

    Open AccessJack D Ives, Bruno MesserliARTICLEMountain Research and Development1990

  • The Himalayan Dilemma

    Geoffrey Mcnicoll, Jack D Ives et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review1989

  • African Mountains and Highlands

    Open AccessBruno Messerli, Hans Hurni et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development1988

    Bruno Messerli, Hans Hurni, Bekure Wolde-Semayat, Shibru Tedla, Jack D. Ives, Mesfin Wolde-Mariam, African Mountains and Highlands: Introduction and Resolutions, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 8, No. 2/3, African Mountains and Highlands (May - Aug., 1988), pp. 93-100

  • African Mountains and Highlands

    Open AccessMartín Grosjean, Bruno MesserliARTICLEMountain Research and Development1988

    Martin Grosjean, Bruno Messerli, African Mountains and Highlands: Potential and Constraints, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 8, No. 2/3, African Mountains and Highlands (May - Aug., 1988), pp. 111-122

  • Wildlife Conservation and Rural Development Planning in the Simen Mountains of Ethiopia

    Open AccessHans Hurni, Teshome Ashine et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development1987