Contributors and reviewers

Editors Bjørn Petter Kaltenborn, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Christian Nellemann, UNEP/GRID-Arendal Ingunn Ims Vistnes, Norut Alta

Cartography Riccardo Pravettoni Laura Margueritte (p. 11) Hugo Ahlenius (p. 25)

Layout GRID-Arendal

Photo credits 1 iStockphoto/Mayumi Terao 1 iStockphoto/fotoVoyager 5 iStockphoto/Jeremy Edwards 8-9 iStockphoto/Tomas Sereda 10 iStockphoto/David Ciemny 13 iStockphoto/ Bartosz Hadyniak 16 iStockphoto/Anantha Vardhan 20 iStockphoto/Leeuwtje 26-27 NASA/GSFC/METI/ERS- DAC/JAROS/US/Japan ASTER Science Team 33 iStock- photo/Tobias Helbig 34-35 NASA/GSFC/MODIS Rapid Response Team 38 iStockphoto/Peeter Viisimaa 40-41 iStockphoto/Ryvas Kadamanau Alyantai 42 iStockphoto/ Michael Buckley 46 iStockphoto/Dirk Ott 54 iStockpho- to/Chepko Danil 56 iStockphoto/Paul Kline

Contributors Amir Muhammed, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan Armando Lamadrid, CICERO, Oslo, Norway Doug Benn, The University Centre in Svalbard, N-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway Georg Kaser, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Geogra- phy, Austria Frank Paul, Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Swit- zerland Gernot Koboltschnig, Dept. for Water Management Amt der Kaerntner Landesregierung, Provincial Government of Carinthia, Flatschacher Strasse 70, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria Gino Casassa, Glaciology and Climate Change, Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Chile John M. Reynolds, Reynolds International Ltd, UK Jon Ove Hagen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Kim Holmen, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway Konrad (Koni) Steffen, University of Colorado, Cooperative In- stitute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), USA Haakon Lein, Norwegian University of Science and Technol- ogy, Trondheim; Norway Mats Eriksson, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal Nitesh Shrestha, ADAPT-NEPAL, Lalitpur, Nepal Prabodh Dhar Chakrabarti, National Institute of Disaster Management, INDIA Stella Maris Navone, Buenos Aires University, San Isidro, Argentina Ye Baisheng, Cold & Arid Regions Environmental and Engi- neering, Lanzhou, China

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