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Reflections on the UNFCCC and COP30
By Julia A. Klein The entrance to COP30 in Belem, Brazil. Inside COP30: A Mix of Progress and Deep Disappointment At the heart of the Amazon, the world gathered to decide the future [...]
A Mountain of Change in the Andes
On May 28, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm released a verdict establishing a powerful legal precedent. It opens the door to holding companies that emit greenhouse gasses liable for their contribution to climate change [...]
Andean Keepers of the Indigenous Systems: Celebrating the Ethos of Hatun Tinkuy in Peru
By: Abriti Moktan, Mountain Sentinels Fellow Traducir al español I embarked on a short, power-packed, impromptu trip to Peru to attend the Mountain Sentinels Summit at Huaraz amidst the chaos of finals week in December. [...]
Introducing a Science special issue on mountain ecosystems
Relief begets diversity. Mountain landscapes host a rich variety of flora and fauna, engendered by their concentrated diversity of climatic and ecological conditions. Two centuries on from Alexander von Humboldt’s pioneering research in the Tropical [...]
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Cattle are moved seasonally between private and federal rangeland in mountain communities. Social–ecological approaches to rangeland management have been developed by the Blue Mountains working group and the Community‐Based Observing Network working group of the [...]
Articles
- MtnSEON and social–ecological systems science in complex mountain landscapes by Lilian Alessa, Andrew Kliskey, James Gosz, David Griffith, and Amber Ziegler
- Cattle grazing and fish recovery on US federal lands: can social–ecological systems science help? by Susan Charnley, Hannah Gosnell, Kendra L Wendel, Mary M Rowland, and Michael J Wisdom
- Agro-environmental Transitions in African Mountains: Shifting Socio-spatial Practices Amid State-Led Commercialization in Rwanda by Nathan Clay
- “Water Is Life”: Local Perceptions of Páramo Grasslands and Land Management Strategies Associated with Payment for Ecosystem Services by Kathleen A. Farley & Leah L. Bremer
- Natural Hazard Management from a Coevolutionary Perspective: Exposure and Policy Response in the European Alps by Sven Fuchs, Veronika Röthlisberger, Thomas Thaler, Andreas Zischg & Margreth Keiler
- Bringing the Hydrosocial Cycle into Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Lessons from Two Andean Mountain Water Towers by Megan Mills-Novoa, Sophia L. Borgias, Arica Crootof, Bhuwan Thapa, Rafael de Grenade & Christopher A. Scott
- Nanga Parbat Revisited: Evolution and Dynamics of Sociohydrological Interactions in the Northwestern Himalaya by Marcus Nüsser & Susanne Schmidt
- Applied Montology Using Critical Biogeography in the Andes by Fausto O. Sarmiento, J. Tomás Ibarra, Antonia Barreau, J. Cristóbal Pizarro, Ricardo Rozzi, Juan A. González & Larry M. Frolich
- Snowlines and Treelines in the Tropical Andes by Kenneth R. Young, Alexandra G. Ponette-González, Molly H. Polk & Jennifer K. Lipton
- Mountain Ecology, Remoteness, and the Rise of Agrobiodiversity: Tracing the Geographic Spaces of Human–Environment Knowledge by Karl S. Zimmerer, Hildegardo Córdova-Aguilar, Rafael Mata Olmo, Yolanda Jiménez Olivencia & Steven J. Vanek
- Heritage as Weapon: Contested Geographies of Conservation and Culture in the Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area, India by Ashwini Chhatre, Shikha Lakhanpal & Satya Prasanna
- Applying social–ecological systems science to complex mountain landscapes by Terry L Hunt, Andrew Kliskey, and Lilian Alessa
- Understanding large-scale, complex, human–environmental processes: a framework for social–ecological observatoriesby Patrick Bourgeron, Andrew Kliskey, Lilian Alessa, Henry Loescher, Kinga Krauze, Arika Virapongse, and David L Griffith
- Perestroika to Parkland: The Evolution of Land Protection in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan by Stephen F. Cunha
- Harnessing the State: Social Transformation, Infrastructural Development, and the Changing Governance of Water Systems in the Kangra District of the Indian Himalayas by Harry W. Fischer
- Living with Earthquakes and Angry Deities at the Himalayan Borderlands by Mabel Denzin Gergan
- The Sacred Mountain Shiveet Khairkhan (Bayan Ölgiy aimag, Mongolia) and the Centering of Cultural Indicators in the Age of Nomadic Pastoralism by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer & James E. Meacham
- Mountain Agriculture for Global Markets: The Case of Greenhouse Floriculture in Ecuador by Gregory Knapp
- Mountainous Terrain and Civil Wars: Geospatial Analysis of Conflict Dynamics in the Post-Soviet Caucasus by Andrew M. Linke, Frank D. W. Witmer, Edward C. Holland & John O’Loughlin
- Making Mountain Places into State Spaces: Infrastructure, Consumption, and Territorial Practice in a Himalayan Borderland by Galen Murton
- Khumbi yullha and the Beyul: Sacred Space and the Cultural Politics of Religion in Khumbu, Nepal by Lindsay A. Skog
- Impacts of Glacier Recession and Declining Meltwater on Mountain Societies by Mark Carey, Olivia C. Molden, Mattias Borg Rasmussen, M Jackson, Anne W.Nolin & Bryan G. Mark