Two MRD authors presented their findings and discussed their recommendations with invited policymakers, practitioners, and the audience. Click to read the key insights and watch the recording!

We invite papers that investigate how digitalization can help to achieve sustainable development in mountains, analyze impacts of digitalization, and propose agendas for future research and policies.

Artisanal mountain Pecorino cheese made in spring—from the milk of sheep grazing on flowering meadows—can fetch higher prices. This can help support the sustainability of mountain grazing systems.

Brigitte Portner joined our team at the beginning of June. She will help to facilitate our upcoming online discussion series and oversee the review process for MountainResearch submissions.

We invite systematic assessments of restoration experiences, empirical research on degradation, restoration, and their links to resilience, and review-based agendas for research, policy, or action.

This research shows that runoff responds rapidly to rainfall, making direct in situ observation of meteorological and hydrological data key to predicting water-related disasters.

With a lay summary of her recent article in MRD, our nominee Neelakshi Joshi convinced the judging panel to select her as one of 5 winners of this year’s BioOne Ambassador Award. Congratulations!

This ethnographic study shows that tailoring risk communication to tourism employees is crucial in the context of large-scale, less visible hazards like unstable deglaciated slopes.

The role of local food products in mountain tourism, smart villages, and outcomes of the International Mountain Conference 2019 in Innsbruck: read about these and other topics in this open issue.

In an interview, Associate Editor Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel explains our vision and mission and highlights upcoming new features, including indigenous contributions and an online dialogue series.

Based on a case study, this article shows how and to what extent the “smart village” concept can help local communities in mountain and foothill areas solve socioeconomic and environmental problems.