This study examines negotiation processes on water usage in a village in the Swiss Alps, focusing on actor-network dynamics during irrigation renewal, identifying conflicts, synergies, and adaptation.
Science Lessons from the eternal Ice: Glaciers as a Gateway to an education for sustainable development
The GlacierXperience project is designed to enhance students’ understanding of glaciers and to provide insights into actual research topics, such as heavy metals in alpine regions.
Glacier and permafrost hazard management in the Italian Alps
The contribution illustrates the approach developed by DPC and CNR-IRPI to inform assessment and management of glacier and permafrost risk in the Italian Alps, following the 2022 Marmolada disaster.
Combing normative scenarios and exploratory conservation policies for delineating robust Alpine protected areas
Planning conservation areas based on current biodiversity and ecosystem services is ineffective due to global change. Normative and explorative scenarios allow delineating robust areas to changes.
User-based Pasture Management in Kyrgyzstan: Achievements, Challenges, and Trends
Mobile animal husbandry has played an important cultural and economic role in Kyrgyzstan since historical times. This contribution traces recent developments, placing the focus on achievements, trends
The role of women in mountain films and film festivals: from the Alps to the Canadian Rockies
The image of the “mountain man” will be examined to analyze how cinema visually constructed this gender image, and how it evolved. Did this image include or exclude women?
Monitoring, participating, and communicating mountain hazards: lessons from recent snow droughts in the Italian Alps
In recent winters, drought reduced SWE in the Italian Alps by 60%, causing water crises in the Po River. CIMA launched a campaign, supported by S3M Italy & IT-SNOW, to raise awareness of snow sc
Bridging perspectives: A transdisciplinary analysis of challenges and opportunities for sustainable livelihoods in Nepal’s mountain landscapes
This study uses a transdisciplinary approach to analyse the challenges and opportunities for a sustainable future in Nepal’s mountain regions, integrating local and academic perspectives.
Tumbling & rumbling: examining environmental controls on slope stability at Portage Glacier, Alaska
We studied a pair of paraglacial landslides in Alaska over three years using various techniques and examined the environmental factors controlling slope motion.
The international GLORIA monitoring network on biodiversity and climate change: Lessons learned in collecting and analysing alpine plant diversity data around the world
Plant biodiversity monitoring in alpine summit areas around the world and its data compilation for the first global synthesis will be presented.