Mountain Research and Development
When exploring pathways for sustainable development, knowledge about context matters just as much as our understanding of global processes. Papers in Open Issue (Vol 36, No 1) of Mountain...
Mountain forests play a key role in securing mountain livelihoods by providing timber, fuelwood, food, fodder, and medicine. In addition to these provisioning services, they offer cultural services as well as locally and globally significant regulating and supporting services such as...
This issue introduces MRD’s new, fully peer-reviewed MountainAgenda section, which replaces MountainNotes. Articles present agendas for future research or policy, based on well-referenced reviews of the state of the art. In this issue, articles propose agendas for research on alpine...
This Focus Issue of MRD contributes to the International Year of Water Cooperation by presenting knowledge about water governance in mountains—a topic that has received little attention, even though the key role of mountains in providing water for the world’s population is...
