Climate change alters predisposition to disturbances differently across elevations. Disturbance mitigation may trade off with biodiversity & ecosystem services.
Integrating Process-Based Modelling and Sustainability Indicators: Insights from the SOSFOR Project
The project combines forest ecosystem modelling with social and economic assessments, offering decision-support tools (DSS) for adaptive and climate-smart forestry.
The VIVALP living lab: a co-design approach for the deployment of nature-based solutions in French Alpine protected areas
The VIVALP Living Lab aims to support the implementation of nature-based solutions (NbS) in protected areas employing a strong co-production approach
Interdependencies and conflicts between territorialities in sustainable agri-food transformations. Examples from the Bauges and Galaure territoires.
Using a territorial approach to agri-food transformations enables to highlight the interdependencies and conflicts between different territorialities and their role in agri-food transformations.
Interface areas in the European Alps: Defining functional regions between mountains and lowlands
This paper conceptualizes Alpine interface areas, highlighting their role as connectors between mountain and lowland regions and emphasizing their potential for strategic spatial development.
Advancing natural capital accounting in European mountain regions: methodological review and implications for sustainability
A review of natural capital accounting methodologies in European mountain regions, considering global change, stakeholders, and implications for sustainability and decision-making.
Current and future mountain forest ecosystem services under climate change
Mountain forests provide vital ecosystem services but are also experiencing accelerated impacts of climate change. To understand the dynamics of this system, we engaged stakeholders in workshop event.
Sustainable Energy in the Alps: Micro-Hydroelectric Systems and Cooperative Water Management
Micro-hydroelectric systems (≤20 kW, ≤50 l/sec) can provide sustainable energy for Alpine communities. The study examines feasibility, ecological impact and cooperative management in a changing climat
Indigenous festival in the Biosphere Reserve Laguna Blanca, Argentinian Andes: Encountering extractivist logic, fragmented resistance, and the conflictive “cosmopolitical” arena
Drawing on the ethnographic and spatial methodologies, we focus on the indigenous communities’ resistance, and its slow fragmentation, to a mining project expressed though an indigenous festival.
Introducing system mapping methods and analytics to overcome seed shortages in mountain forests during the climate crisis: The case of the Austrian Tree Seed System
Tree seed shortages threaten forest regeneration in mountainous regions. An Austrian case study uses system mapping to identify interventions for sustainable development and multi-actor collaboration