Low mountain communities within semi-abandoned landscape bet on shared heritage care and local knowledge for future-focused, community-driven solutions, contrasting with high-altitude tourism.
Promoting innovations for sustainable development: learnings from pilot activities
Insights gained from pilot activities have informed the concept of a cross-regional innovation hub that will bring together diverse mountain stakeholders and enable co-creation of innovations.
Understanding the Challenges: A Gendered Perspective on Mountain Youth
Young mountain women face unique challenges, including learned helplessness. Empowering young mountain women and amplifing their voices are crucial for sustainable development.
Who belongs in the Bow Valley? Teasing out tensions in Canadian Rocky Mountain Narratives
By examining competing narratives of Bow Valley communities in the Canadian Rockies, this paper unpacks the often racist, classist, and colonial understandings of who belongs in mountain geographies.
Natural Hazards, Climate Change, and Criminal Liability: Challenges and Legal Frameworks
Climate change transforms natural hazard risks, raising legal questions about responsibility, liability, and the role of emerging technologies.
Stakeholders’ fatigue and the problem of “too much [research], too little [giving back]” in action research in the mountains
This paper discusses the issues of communities being over-researched and over-engaged as part of the inter- and transdisciplinary research and presents alternatives to address this ethical challenge.
Envisioning utopia? Epistemologies of socio-ecological transformation
How can scholars make use of the epistemologies of socio-ecological transformation for researching situated spatial dynamics?
The Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant in South Africa: Exploring the urban vs rural implications of a datafied social protection cash-transfer programme
A longitudinal qualitative exploration into South Africa’s newly introduced Social Relief of Distress grant: South Africa’s first online and automated cash-transfer benefiting the unemployed
Not so sustainable after all: Understanding hydropower-based energy transition in the Himalayan headwaters as a flawed development rationale
A massive proliferation of large dams for hydropower development is underway across the Himalayan regions of India.
Beyond the tangible: A comparative case study of floods and invisible losses in Mustang, Nepal
The study explores invisible loss relating to floods in Himalayan communities, advocating for plural values to inform inclusive adaptation strategies based on core-periphery dynamics.