Conservation of open spaces in the European Alps, the link between child growth and elevation in Nepal, or valuation and knowledge of aquatic ecosystems in the Pyrenees: read more about these and other...

Open spaces in the Alps are becoming scarcer. Spatial planning and sectoral approaches to conserving them for the benefit of people and natural heritage require better governance, also across borders.

We invite papers that look at the links between hazards, vulnerabilities, disaster management, development, and global change and offer insights into integrative ways of improving disaster management.

This article assesses a project to introduce transdisciplinary approaches at universities in Armenia and Georgia. The project successfully advanced education but less so local communities’ priorities.

The findings of this study highlight nutritional risks of children at high elevations and how sustainable development could help to reduce these risks.

The authors critically appraise the sustainability of a groundwater irrigation system called suranga in the foothills of the Western Ghats in Kerala, India.

Articles in this focus issue offer further evidence of mountain species’ importance for human livelihoods and wellbeing. They also call for effective conservation and management approaches.

Articles will address transformations affecting mountain pastoralists and rangelands, their interactions with other systems, and the answers local communities, policymakers, and scientists can give.

MRD regularly invites experts to review books on mountain-relevant topics. We have just sent several new books out for review. See the whole list by clicking here – and watch out for the upcoming reviews!

The authors analyze how the relatively late emergence of female education initiated a process of rapid social change in a remote mountain community in Pakistan.