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yorK Institute for Tropical Ecosystems (KITE) Research on East African Mountain Ranges
Are you interested in East African mountain ranges? Curious about the intersections of biodiversity, land-use and climate change? Are you invested in the risks and opportunities associated with the anthropogenic impacts affecting the biodiversity and [...]
Revitalizing Mountain Ecosystems: A Blueprint from the UN Decade’s Restoration Principles
Discover the pivotal insights unveiled in this collaborative publication by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Programme. This comprehensive analysis delves into [...]
Collaborative agent-based modeling for managing shrub encroachment in an Afroalpine grassland
Are you interested in community-based conservation and seeking traditional ecological knowledge approaches to socio-ecological models? Interested in participatory/co-design methods in Afroalpine spaces? Are you invested in the co-creation of knowledge and participatory modeling? Mountain Sentinel [...]
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