Mountain Research and Development (MRD)

Mountain Biodiversity and Sustainable Development

VOL 40 | NO 2

Mountain biodiversity provides billions of people with vital ecosystem services and sources of livelihoods. MRD is looking for papers that...

The Role of Culture in Transformation Towards Sustainable Development in Mountains

VOL 39 | NO 4

Mountain communities are undergoing rapid sociocultural change, caused by drivers like outmigration, urbanization, and ...

MRD’s impact factor is consistently growing

According to Clarivate Analytics’ InCites Journal Citation Reports®, MRD’s 2-year impact factor has reached yet another all-time high at 1.388 (5-year: 1.701). We thank authors and reviewers for their...

Species Composition and Carbon Stock of Tree Cover at a Postdisturbance Area in the Tatra National Park, Western Carpathians

By Bohdan Konôpka et al

This study of postdisturbance tree cover dynamics following a large-scale windstorm showed that tree species composition after the storm was more diverse than before. It also seems to be resistant to harmful...

Do Economic Opportunities Offered by National Parks Affect Social Perceptions of Parks? A Study from the Polish Carpathians

By Agata Warchalska-Troll

The literature as well as simple logic suggest that economic benefits are likely to enhance positive attitudes towards protected areas. But the results of this study in the Polish Carpathians do not support...

Mapping Food Systems: A Participatory Research Tool Tested in Kenya and Bolivia

By Johanna Jacobi et al

Participatory food system mapping has proved an ideal way of co-creating a comprehensive overview of a food system’s actors and activities, policies, relevant natural resources, and flows of information and...

Focus Topics

Mountain Biodiversity and Sustainable Development

VOL 40 | NO 2
Call for papers Open

Mountain biodiversity provides billions of people with vital ecosystem services and sources of...

The Role of Culture in Transformation Towards Sustainable Development in Mountains

VOL 39 | NO 4
Upcoming

Mountain communities are undergoing rapid sociocultural change, caused by drivers like outmigration, urbanization, and ...

Adaptation to Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Mountains

VOL 39 | NO 2
In Progress

Mountains and mountain communities are critically affected by climate change. MRD aims to bring together a set of papers that…

Food Security and Sustainable Development in Mountains

VOL 38 | NO 4
November, 2018

This issue presents options...

Implications of Out- and In-Migration for Sustainable Development in Mountains

VOL 37 | NO 4
November, 2017

Papers in this Focus Issue analyze how asylum seekers, amenity migrants, and young people are being integrated in mountain villages in Europe; ask whether lifestyle migrants in...

Latest Articles

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Editorial of Vol 39, No 1

By Thomas Breu et al

Papers in this issue cover food sustainability issues in Kenya and Bolivia and in Chile; the...

Editorial

Reconfiguration of the Water–Energy–Food Nexus in the Everest Tourist Region of Solu-Khumbu, Nepal

By Olivia Aubriot et al

The increase in seasonal tourism has led to growing water, food, and energy demands that have modified the use of local resources. Water has become central to the tourist industry...

MountainResearch

Does Perceived Crowding Cause Winter Backcountry Recreationists to Displace?

By Reto Rupf et al

Winter backcountry sports have rapidly gained in popularity in the European Alps. This study among Swiss backcountry skiers and snowshoers shows that crowding leads to short- and...

MountainResearch

Species Composition and Carbon Stock of Tree Cover at a Postdisturbance Area in the Tatra National Park, Western Carpathians

By Bohdan Konôpka et al

This study of postdisturbance tree...

MountainResearch

Of the Mountains, for the Mountains: Professor Bruno Messerli (1931–2019)

By ICIMOD

“Better knowledge is necessary to reduce the constraints and to increase the potential of mountain ecosystems and the surrounding lowlands and plains. In this sense, ICIMOD has to...

MountainViews

Bruno Messerli, 17 September 1931 – 4 February 2019

By Hans Hurni, Thomas Kohler

In February, we said goodbye to a dear friend and mentor, an exceptional scientist who was capable...

MountainViews

Shifts in Mapuche Food Systems in Southern Andean Forest Landscapes: Historical Processes and Current Trends of Biocultural Homogenization

By Antonia Barreau et al

Diverse local foodstuffs are being replaced with less diverse market-based foods, causing an increase in nutrition-related chronic diseases. Promotion of culturally appropriate...

MountainResearch

Conflicting Discourses: Understanding the Rejection of a Swiss National Park Project Using Data Analysis Triangulation

By André Bruggmann, Annina Helena Michel

This paper presents a novel analytical perspective on current conservation issues in the European Alps and opens up ground for further research on communication practices, their...

MountainResearch

Research Center for Digital Mountain and Remote Sensing Application, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment

By Wei Zhao et al

This research unit uses geospatial...

MountainPlatform

Do Economic Opportunities Offered by National Parks Affect Social Perceptions of Parks? A Study from the Polish Carpathians

By Agata Warchalska-Troll

The literature as well as simple logic suggest that economic benefits are likely to enhance positive attitudes towards protected areas. But the results of this study in the Polish...

MountainResearch

International Mountain Society and Sponsors

Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS), Kampala, Uganda
Afromontane Research Unit (ARU), University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland
Centre for Mountain Studies (CMS), Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Perth, Scotland
Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN), Lima, Peru
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks (FoLAP), Bern, Switzerland
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (IGF/ÖAW), Innsbruck, Austria
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), Bern, Switzerland
University of Central Asia/Mountain Societies Research Institute (UCA/MSRI), Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

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Impact Factor: 1.388

Mountain Biodiversity and Sustainable Development

The Role of Culture in Transformation Towards Sustainable Development in Mountains

MRD’s impact factor is consistently growing

Species Composition and Carbon Stock of Tree Cover at a Postdisturbance Area in the Tatra National Park, Western Carpathians

Do Economic Opportunities Offered by National Parks Affect Social Perceptions of Parks? A Study from the Polish Carpathians

Mapping Food Systems: A Participatory Research Tool Tested in Kenya and Bolivia

Focus Topics

Mountain Biodiversity and Sustainable Development

The Role of Culture in Transformation Towards Sustainable Development in Mountains

Adaptation to Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Mountains

Food Security and Sustainable Development in Mountains

Implications of Out- and In-Migration for Sustainable Development in Mountains

Latest Articles

Editorial of Vol 39, No 1

Reconfiguration of the Water–Energy–Food Nexus in the Everest Tourist Region of Solu-Khumbu, Nepal

Does Perceived Crowding Cause Winter Backcountry Recreationists to Displace?

Species Composition and Carbon Stock of Tree Cover at a Postdisturbance Area in the Tatra National Park, Western Carpathians

Of the Mountains, for the Mountains: Professor Bruno Messerli (1931–2019)

Bruno Messerli, 17 September 1931 – 4 February 2019

Shifts in Mapuche Food Systems in Southern Andean Forest Landscapes: Historical Processes and Current Trends of Biocultural Homogenization

Conflicting Discourses: Understanding the Rejection of a Swiss National Park Project Using Data Analysis Triangulation

Research Center for Digital Mountain and Remote Sensing Application, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment

Do Economic Opportunities Offered by National Parks Affect Social Perceptions of Parks? A Study from the Polish Carpathians

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