Developing a scale to measure how social capital—networks, trust, reciprocity—enhances rural disaster resilience, highlighting the role of village cadres in complementing top-down risk management.
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.
Community Business and Sustainable Mountain Tourism Development: The Case of Hyakubariki in Hakuba Village, Japan
Hyakubariki, a community business in Hakuba Village, strengthens local ties, fosters innovation, and supports sustainable tourism. We explores its impact on regional development and livable community.
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
Empowering Indigenous Peoples as Agents of Conservation – Exploring the Substantive and Enabling Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Western Ghats, Kerala
Ensuring substantive and enabling rights to empower indigenous peoples as agents of sustainability.
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.
Highlands on Islands: An exploratory analysis of the specific needs and characteristics of sustainable development in mountainous islands
This paper considers approaches to sustainable development in island and mountainous settings in order to understand the ways in which to design appropriate interventions in mountainous islands.
Where the forest recedes: Land use changes in mountain areas and their impacts on the livelihoods of Indigenous communities.
Preserving natural forests is vital not only for sustaining livelihoods of Indigenous peoples but also for maintaining environmental sustainability and safeguarding Indigenous knowledge and culture
Identification of forest areas at risk of erosion in small watersheds in Slovenia
Slovenia’s forestry sector faces challenges in restoring degraded forests and adapting management. Study presents a methodology to identify erosion-prone forest areas, tested in five municipalities.