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

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Large quantities of chhurpi—a hard cheese made from yak buttermilk—produced by a private dairy in Gatlang, Nepal. While the state-supported marketization of yak products has boosted some households’ income, it is simultaneously eroding traditional sustainable herding practices and causing environmental degradation, as shown in the article by Indra Mani Rai and colleagues in this issue. Photo by Dipak Raj Rai

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VOL 45 | NO 4
November 2025

Shifts in yak herding in Nepal, science–society interaction in biosphere reserves worldwide...

Andean peatlands, or bofedales, such as the one in the community of Caripe in Sajama National Park—shown here with Sajama peak—provide vital pasture for llamas and alpacas. An article in this issue shows that community-based land tenure arrangements can support adaptive livelihoods among pastoralists by incentivizing labor migrants to return occasionally to their home communities to maintain land and animals according to customary practices. Photo by Tom Perreault

Open Issue

VOL 45 | NO 2
May 2025

Read about adaptive pastoralist livelihoods in the Andes, interface areas in the European Alps...


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Gentiana bavarica on Loetschen Pass in the Swiss Alps. Photo by Marlène Thibault

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VOL 46 | NO 2
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Mountain landscape in Val d'Anniviers, Valais, Switzerland. Photo by Marlène Thibault

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