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View of Huaraz and surroundings in the Peruvian Andes—one of the world’s many mountain regions facing unprecedented change. Photo by Wolfgang Gurgiser

Collaborative Research for Sustainable Mountain Futures—Special Issue from IMC 2025

VOL 46 | NO 4
In progress

Stay tuned as the issue fills with articles on collaborative research across disciplines...

Goats in a corral in the High Monte of Northwest Argentina. The animals graze during the day and are returned to the corral at sunset to prevent predation. Rural outmigration in the region is coupled with a marked reduction in livestock herd sizes, as an article in this issue shows. Photo by Ana L. Dip Yordanoff

Open Issue

VOL 46 | NO 2
May 2026

Topics include links between rural outmigration and land use change in Argentina, participatory...

Infrastructure for access to the Mer de Glace glacier and surrounding huts. Photo by Jean Miczka

Mountain Tourism—Trends and Transformations Toward Sustainability and Resilience

VOL 46 | NO 1
February 2026

Articles examine how mountain tourism is adapting to climate change and how the sector is being or...

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

Open Issue

VOL 45 | NO 4
November 2025

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

Hybrid innovation—merging old and new technology—in a mountain product value chain in Hungary: a henhouse made of mud, wood, straw, and stones to keep the animals cool, warm, and safe, fitted with a solar-panel-driven door that closes automatically at sunset to keep foxes out. Photo by Gusztáv Nemes

Innovation Pathways to Sustainability in Mountains

VOL 45 | NO 3
August 2025

How can innovation contribute to sustainability in mountains? Exploring this from different angles...

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Upcoming Issues

The MARGISTAR Management Committee and Core Group visit St. Karlo Boromejski Church in Karlobag, Croatia. Photo by Ema Basic

MARGISTAR Special Issue: Governance Pathways for Reviving Left-Behind Mountain Regions

VOL 46 | NO 3
Upcoming

This Special Issue from the MARGISTAR forum will examine what factors worsen the vulnerability of...

Mountain landscape in Val d'Anniviers, Valais, Switzerland. Photo by Marlène Thibault

Open Issue

VOL 47 | NO 1
Upcoming

Submit your paper anytime!

Biodiversity seems intact in this lush mountain meadow – but is it really? Photo by Marlène Thibault

Open Issue

VOL 47 | NO 2
Upcoming

Submit your paper anytime!

A group of people and packhorses traveling along a dry high mountain valley near Cerro Aconcagua in Mendoza Province, Argentina—a region severely impacted by a 15-year megadrought. Photo by Slava Auchynnikau on Unsplash

Drought Dynamics and Futures in Mountain Regions

VOL 47 | NO 3
Call for papers open

We seek contributions that offer insights into the complex, cascading effects of drought, bridge...

Afromontane Research Unit (ARU), University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa
Andean Initiative, International Potato Center, Lima, Peru
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland
Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks (FoLAP), Bern, Switzerland
Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS), United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany and Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (IGF/ÖAW), Innsbruck, Austria
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research (CIRM), University of Lausanne, Switzerland
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), Bern, Switzerland
UNIMONT – University of Milan, Center of Applied Studies for the Sustainable Management and Protection of Mountain Areas, Edolo, Italy

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