Wadi Rum exemplifies the challenge of balancing the increasing influx of tourists with sustainability in protected areas, which are fragile ecosystems.
The Mountain Observatory of Catalonia. Addressing Regional Disparities through Place-Sensitive Innovation Policies in Catalonia’s High Mountain Regions.
The new mountain law includes an observatory that includes all stakeholders and will monitor and evaluate progress to promote innovation, inclusion, and sustainable development in Catalan mountains.
Significance and limits of VGI in the study and understanding of the logics of visits of natural areas: Strava and Outdoorvision data on Grenoble Alpes Métropole and the Drôme department (France)
This paper reports on studies using VGI data of outdoor sports from Strava and Outdoorvision. We studied nine natural areas in the Drôme department and the Grenoble Alpes Métropole area (France).
Glaciers as Legal Entities: Perspectives on the Rights of Nature for Climate Resilience at the Third Pole
Exploring the possibility of granting legal rights to glaciers in Ladakh (Indian Himalayas) as a strategy for enhancing climate resilience by using the emerging Rights of Nature paradigm.
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 Wolves: Socio-Economic Challenges Faced by Mountainous Livestock Farmers in Greece
While wolves challenge mountain farmers, economic issues, policy gaps, and infrastructure deficiencies have a greater impact. Addressing these is key to sustaining livestock farming and coexistence
Integrating migration into local governments’ plans and policies in mountainous Nepal
This paper explores the understanding, response and incorporation of migration by the local governments of Nepal into their governance system, their integration challenges and strategies.
Project LIVEMOUNT: Achieving sustainability of livestock farming in the high mountains under climate change
LIVEMOUNT aims to indicate sustainable livestock farming regimes ensuring biodiversity and ecosystem function maintenance in the Mediterranean mountainous grasslands, under climate change.
Managing Decline – Where to Draw a Line by Prioritizing Investments in Mountain Villages?
The depopulation of mountain villages threatens cultural heritage. This research opens a discussion about criteria for prioritizing villages for investments in the reality of managing rural decline.
Tackling biological invasions in mountains under the Kunming-Montreal GBF: Gaps in data, policies and management tools.
We present an initial assessment of how mountain regions are addressing Target 6 and identify key gaps in data, policies, and management tools to combat the threat of biological invasions.