Current Issue
Volume 31 No 4: Focus Issue
Editorial: The Global Energy Crisis—Opportunities and Challenges for Mountain Areas
Featured Articles
Combating Energy Poverty in Mountainous Areas Through Energy-saving
Interventions
(N. Katsoulakos)
Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Himalaya? Clean Development
Dams in Himachal Pradesh, India
(A. Erlewein, M. Nüsser)
Upcoming Issues
Volume 32 No 1: Indus Basin (Focus Issue; full)
Volume 32 No 2: Green Economy and Livelihoods in Mountains (Focus Issue)
Volume 32 No 3: Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition (Special Issue)
Volume 32 No 4: Open Issue
Forthcoming: Supplement Issue related to the 2010 Perth +5 conference
MRD will be publishing a Supplement Issue in print and online form with a selection of keynotes from the "Global Change and the World's Mountains" conference that took place in Perth, Scotland, in September 2010. This issue will be distributed at the "Planet Under Pressure" conference in London (26–29 March 2012), as a contribution to the Rio+20 process.
International Mountain Society welcomes new institutional member
The International Mountain Society (IMS) and MRD welcome the Centre for Mountain Studies (CMS) at Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands, in Perth, Scotland, as a new institutional member of the IMS. CMS Director Martin Price is also MRD’s MountainMedia Editor and has served for many years on MRD’s Editorial Board. The Editorial Team in Bern would like to seize this opportunity to extend their heartfelt thanks for his invaluable work and support for the journal. |
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