Mountain Research and Development
The leading international scientific journal specifically devoted to sustainable development in the world’s mountains

Published by the International Mountain Society (IMS)

Mountain Research and Development Journal
Mountain Research and Development Journal
Traditional Georgian hospitality in a rural homestay. Photo by Andreas Muhar

Issues with Applying the Concept of Community-based Tourism in the Caucasus

By Lela Khartishvili et al
MountainResearch

This analysis uncovers hidden factors of community-based tourism in the South Caucasus and highlights the need to integrate community development with tourism practice.

Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, from snowcapped summits to lush tropical forest. © Mark Snethlage

Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future Directions

By Davnah Payne et al
MountainAgenda

This comparative literature analysis based on the conceptual framework of the IPBES highlights options for research to inform biodiversity-explicit sustainable development strategies for mountains.

Photo by Eva Posch

The Role of Culture in Transformation Towards Sustainable Development in Mountains

VOL 39 | NO 4
November 2019

Papers show how mountain communities draw on their cultural heritage and integrate new knowledge to shape their own innovative and locally-based development pathways, and how culture can be integrated into...

Sheep grazing in the winter in Digorsky Gorge, North Ossetia. Photo by A. Gazdarov

Post-Soviet Transformations in Pastoral Systems in the North Caucasus: The Development of Hybrid Institutions

By Alexey Gunya et al
MountainResearch

This study analyzes the factors promoting or hindering transhumance practices based on a study of transhumance actors and institutions over the pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.

Protected Pulsatilla alpina subsp. apiifolia in the southern Swiss Alps. Photo by Marlène Thibault

New books on mountains out for review

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!

Rangelands in the Maloti–Drakensberg mountains. Photo by V. Ralph Clark

Pastoralism and Rangelands in Mountains

VOL 41 | NO 4
Call for papers open

MRD invites papers that address transformations affecting mountain pastoralists and rangelands, their interactions with other systems, and the answers local communities, policymakers, and scientists can give.

Urban sprawling in Dulikhel, Nepal, in 2017. Photo by Susanne Wymann von Dach

Dynamic Urban Centers and Sustainable Mountain Development

VOL 41 | NO 3
Call for papers open

MRD is looking for papers that help understand urbanization and emerging rural–urban relations in mountains, or that propose ways of shaping these transformations to increase sustainability; and for syntheses...

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