Trail restoration at Frey Hut in Patagonia successfully reduced visitor impact on alpine meadows, demonstrating how strategic trail management can contribute to balance conservation and recreation.
(Re)Discovering Young People’s Visual Perceptions of Alpine Environments
By exploring young people’s perceptions of Alpine environments through visitor-employed photography walks in Tyrol, Austria, key features are identified to restrengthening young people’s human-nature.
Youth Needs Analysis in Bergama Mountain Villages (Izmir/Turkey) and Tourism’s Place in Sustainable Future Awareness
The study has a qualitative design consisting of a comprehensive needs analysis, a problem-oriented field study and a social comparison. need, , expectation, expectation, vision, awareness, innovation
The role of the Sonnblick Observatory within European Research Infrastructure Consortiums (ERICs) and its potential for eLT(S)ER
Insight into the potential of the Sonnblick Observatory as a research hub for ERICs with new approaches to altitude gradient studies in the context of eLT(S)ER. A potential for cooperations.
Geomorphological impact of tourism in the high-mountain environment: a case study of recreational trails in Vinicunca Area, Andes, Peru.
We mapped and documented geomorphological impacts resulting from the initial development of trails and the subsequent intensive tourist activity in the high-mountain environment in the Andes, Peru.
Shaping a New Research Agenda for Mountain Futures
Mountain social ecological systems are increasingly facing many future challenges. We present a global research framework, embedded within local knowledge, to address these challenges
Scientific co-investigations with high school student as sentinels of global warming between grief and hope (Anti-Atlas Morocco).
High school students are a category of anthropocenic sentinels capable of informing us on the issue of global warming and questioning the near future of mountain territories between grief and hope.
Andean Identity model
The Sarmiento’s trilemma of Andean identity will be explained using the traditional trifecta of the Inka commandments that implies interplay of reciprocity of highland adaptation and robust livelihood
The Andean-Amazon flanks of the upper Napo river watershed
The Andean-Amazon flanks are presented as exemplars of the changing narratives needed to better understand mountains from montological insight, by paleoecology and ethnoecology collaborative research.
Sense of place and land-management in Tadami Biosphere Reserve’s risk landscape: anthropological insights for community resilience
The study evaluates the influence of sense of place, derived from human interactions with their biophysical environment, on community resilience to natural hazards.