The study explores tourism’s impact on Galiyat’s cultural heritage and traditional knowledge systems, including storytelling, crafts, and medicinal plant use, assessing community resilience.
Andean/Runa Moountain Social-Ecological Futures: From Consultation to KoDesigners of Conservation.
Conservation projects must recognize indigenous and rural leadership, ensuring ownership, data sovereignty and equitable benefits through responsible and collaborative research frameworks.
Status of Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Drivers thereof in Indo-Himalayan region
This study examines deforestation and forest degradation in the Indo-Himalayan region, estimating carbon stock, assessing forest status, identifying D&FD drivers, and proposing strategic solutions.
Identifying slow-moving landslides and slope instabilities in glacier surroundings using InSAR time series analysis
InSAR time series analysis of Sentinel-1 data is used to detect landslides in glacier surroundings. The results are assessed in relation to glacier retreat and affected alpine hiking infrastructure.
Snowmaking in Austria: Key data, resource consumption and CO2 emissions
This study examines the consumption of water and electricity and the CO2 footprint of snowmaking, which is the central adaptation measure for ski tourism in the face of climate change.
Promoting innovations for sustainable development: learnings from pilot activities
Insights gained from pilot activities have informed the concept of a cross-regional innovation hub that will bring together diverse mountain stakeholders and enable co-creation of innovations.
Multifunctional landscapes of Darjeeling district – patterns of rural change
We examine a rapidly changing multifunctional landscape in the mid-hills of Darjeeling Eastern Himalaya, characterizing the landscape based on panel data from a decade of work.
How much wilderness is left? Need for non-go-to policy in renewable energy infrastructures in mountainous areas of high ecological integrity.
Preserving the last European mountainous wilderness is the most efficient way to resolve conflicts between renewable energy and conservation targets in the frame of Nature Restoration Regulation
Regeneration projects in the rural context of the Italian Prealps. The Clusone Plateau in Seriana Valley – Bergamo Province (Italy)
The contribution explores as architectural design approach can develop the rural mountainous plateau of Upper Seriana Valley (Clusone), according to a renewed visions based on wellness and health.
Sustaining Indigenous Mountain Cultures in a Changing Economy: A case-study of the Mao-Nagas
The loss of indigenous knowledge perpetuating sustainable human-nature relationships is under threat in the guise of development without adequate policies that checks and balances