Processes of attachments with mountain beings, of personification, as well as embodied experiences of loss, death and bare life, can prefigurate future ways of relating with mountain entities and spac
Mountain Stories: Local Communities in the Himalayas Regions of Pakistan – Narratives of Resilience and Sustainability
This study explores complex relationships between local communities,environmental crisis,sustainable development in Pakistan’s Himalayan regions highlighting innovative strategies for resilience.
Regeneration projects in the rural context of the Italian Prealps. The Clusone Plateau in Seriana Valley – Bergamo Province (Italy)
The contribution explores as architectural design approach can develop the rural mountainous plateau of Upper Seriana Valley (Clusone), according to a renewed visions based on wellness and health.
Kold Krush, A Cosmos Compressed: Mountain Subsistence and Spiritual Transformations in the Neoglacial of Maloti-Drakensberg, Southern Africa
Archaeologists have long sought to make excavated and rock art evidence mutually intelligible. With new direct dates from rock paintings comes an unprecedented opportunity to relate the two registers
Dew Ponds in Albanian Alps: a sustainable water management practice in the cultural landscape of Shkrel
This study examines dew ponds in the Shkrel, Albania, highlighting their role in water practices, cultural landscape, and community involvement, while advocating for their preservation.
‘Things of consequence’: ostrich eggshell beads as indicators of precolonial societal interaction between southern African highlands and lowlands
Exotic ostrich eggshell beads held powerful associations for hunter-gatherers living in Lesotho’s Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains during the Late Quaternary and bound them to various lowland societies.
Sustaining Indigenous Mountain Cultures in a Changing Economy: A case-study of the Mao-Nagas
The loss of indigenous knowledge perpetuating sustainable human-nature relationships is under threat in the guise of development without adequate policies that checks and balances
Adaptive trajectories in temperate mountains: new research at Likonong and Ha Soloja, Lesotho
Pilot research at two rockshelters in Lesotho’s Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains reveal processes of landscape learning and the generation of adaptive strategies beginning in the Middle Pleistocene.
Cultivating community-led heritage futures for healthy landscapes in the Highlands of Scotland
Community-based research in the Highlands of Scotland shows the importance of historic and contemporary cultural heritage for addressing the sustainability of the tourism economy and land use practice
Remaking mountain social infrastructures inside protected areas: a case from the central Apennines
The role of Collective Properties as socio-ecological infrastructures within protected areas, exploring tensions between different mountain futures on resource use and conservation.