Mountain Research and Development Journal
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

Yak herding, science–society interaction, topography–development links

Volume 45, Number 4 is complete!

Articles in this open issue’s MountainResearch section examine the shift from traditional to market-driven yak herding practices in Gatlang, Nepal; challenges in implementing UNESCO policies on science–society interaction in mountain biosphere reserves around the world; and the role of topography in socioeconomic development in the European Alps. In the MountainPlatform section, the Afromontane Research Unit presents the Mozambique Mountain Initiative, and the MountainMedia section offers a review of an ethnographic account of disappearing pastoralism in Bulgaria.

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