Avalanche commissions are panels of local people that mitigate avalanche risks. The CAIROS project aims to strengthen their role.
Scoping EIA from Disaster Perspective
The paper reviews India’s EIA, highlighting gaps in disaster risk reduction and recommending DRR integration to prevent environmental degradation-induced disasters.
From Science to Action: Strengthening Policy and Governance for Sustainable Himalayan Ecosystems
Bridging science, policy, and governance can drive transformative action for resilient Himalayan ecosystems, ensuring sustainable forest management and climate adaptation.
Social Cohesion Structures and the Tonari Gumi System in Tadami, Japan
This study explores the cultural expressions of social cohesion identified in Tadami, and their contribution to community resilience to natural hazards, climate change and rural outmigration.
Adopting relational approaches to stop fishing in troubled waters: An introduction of Baptiste Morizot’s theories to reconsider human-nature embeddedness in management and organization studies
This paper presents the results of an ethnography investigating relations and interdependencies between humans and non-humans around water. It mobilizes Baptiste Morizot’s theories.
Building resilience to CC through mountain nature-based community enterprises in Africa
Africa mountains and communities, face significant challenges linked to CC effects. Through its Africa Mountains Programme, ARCOS thrives to promote mountain community’s resilience to CC.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Alpine forest commons: how is it faring?
The status and transmission of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in selected forest commons in Italy is analysed. Potential conservation strategies of TEK are explored.
Bridging Digital and Sustainability Transitions for Smart, Sustainable Uplands
Explores the twin transition: digital and sustainability transformations to create smart, sustainable mountain regions that address governance challenges, stakeholder inclusion, and change pathways.
Microclimate gradients after natural forest expansion have the potential to contribute to climate buffering in mountain ecosystems
Natural forest expansion after agro-pastoral abandonment shapes mountain microclimates. Our framework highlights microclimate gradients in forest succession, emphasizing replicability across mountain.
Transhumance, socio-economic change and questions about the future of extensive livestock farming in Argentina: an analysis based on the case of Malargüino
Transhumance is a seasonal migration from one ecological level to another. It is a tactic of temporal and socio-spatial organisation that reproduces an ancestral format of peasant and indigenous life.