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 [...]
3-year PhD position on Ethnobotanical knowledge for sustainable food system development in Africa APPLY BY APRIL 6, 2021. The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 3-year PhD-position in International Environment and Development Studies. Sub‐Saharan Africa has some [...]
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.
Mountain Research and Development is looking for papers that help understand urbanization in mountains and emerging new relations between rural mountain areas and urban centers in and outside mountains.
Special Issue of Journal Land "Mountains Under Pressure" Print Special Issue Flyer Special Issue Editors Special Issue Information Keywords Published Papers A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Systems and Global Change". Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2020. Special Issue Editors Prof. Rob Marchant Website Guest Editor York Institute for [...]