FS 3.105: Mountain models

The multidimensional study of mountains allows geoecological elements and phenomena to be modelled. While mountains bring many opportunities with their parameters, they are also complicated under a range of threats during prospective scenarios of climate change. These characteristics require extra effort to understand local impacts without losing sight of global complexity of mountain socioecological systems and parameterizing their different models. More information is needed on how mountain landscapes are transforming under environmental changes, as observations in one mountain area can serve as a mirror forecasting or hindcasting change. Seeing the opportunities and threats for different cases will be key to developing modeled solutions for sustainable and regenerative development. In this context, we take a montological perspective on opportunities and threats, based on ecological, economic, sociological, ethnographic, and climatic models. This session emphasizes that geospatial knowledge should be attained from a montological perspective with a transdisciplinary strategy. Therefore, the session shows the multidimensional interaction of mountain environments. There is a need for studies that bring together different methodologies to investigate the changing structure and usage characteristics due to human activities, the problems caused by natural disasters, and the responses of ecosystems, the adaptation of mountain communities, and more. The synergy created by such a methodology can pave the way for new approaches in mountain research.