VOL 43 | NO 3
Call for papers open
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.
Mountain wineries are helping to revitalize mountain farming in Cyprus, creating economic opportunities and good prospects for restoring abandoned drystone terraces and using them productively again.
This study highlights the crucial role of community-based institutions for local livelihoods in heterogeneous mountain areas, based on a mixed-method analysis of constraints, drivers, and resources in...
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!
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.
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.
VOL 42 | NO 1
February 2022
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.
Watch this issue fill with articles on the links between hazards, vulnerabilities, disaster management, development, and global change—and on ways to improve disaster management.
A review by Manfred Perlik of the book by Prisca Roth about municipal life in Val Bregaglia in the 14th–16th centuries
The authors show how geolocated social media images can be used to examine spatiotemporal tourist visitation patterns in remote mountain protected areas—with a view to aiding...
Urban planning is a promising tool to address disaster risk in the Uttarakhand Himalayas—but its effective use requires urgent top-down and bottom-up efforts.
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