Call for papers: Addressing challenges of hazards, risks, and disaster management in mountain regions Mountain Research and Development is looking for trans- and interdisciplinary contributions that help understand the links between hazards, vulnerabilities, disaster management, and diverse dimensions of development, adaptation, and global change. Insights into integrative approaches to improving disaster management across the entire [...]

Human-Environment Systems, Boise State University, Idaho, USA We are recruiting a PhD student to join a transdisciplinary team focused on measuring the impact of beaver rewilding for ecosystem restoration. In particular, the student will use time-series satellite data and social-ecological modeling to measure mesic resources before and after beaver rewilding interventions across the entire western [...]

About the Project Winter conditions are changing, with rapid reductions in northern-hemisphere snowcover. This is of huge importance for alpine ecosystems, which are disproportionately biodiverse, and considered a sentinel for climate change due to observed rapid changes in plant communities. However, belowground diversity and biogeochemistry of soil organisms is poorly reconciled, hindering our ability to [...]

Submissions are now open for a special issue in Sustainability entitled Citizen Science for Sustainable Cities: Investigating Nature-Based Solutions.The guest editors encourage submissions that explore any aspect of nature-based solutions and citizen science in relation to each other.  Cities are major contributors to global change and are highly susceptible to their consequences. As urbanization continues, [...]

Through a broadly interdisciplinary approach which calls for scholarship across philosophy, geography, social psychology, sport, literature, film studies and wider scope, the editors are looking for chapters which interrogate and elucidate upon the representation and prominence of mountaineering, in its widest meaning, in the memoir and its associated paratexts through film and television.