TY  - BOOK
TI  - Mountains under Pressure
SN  - 9783036581743
PY  - 2023///
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - Geography
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Research & information: general
KW  - adaptation strategies
KW  - agroforestry
KW  - alien species
KW  - alpine
KW  - alpine and montane ecosystems
KW  - Andean forests
KW  - austral perspective
KW  - biological invasions
KW  - CAP
KW  - Chagga
KW  - citizen science
KW  - climate change
KW  - connectivity
KW  - deforestation
KW  - drought
KW  - East Africa
KW  - ecological indices
KW  - ecosystem services
KW  - elevation
KW  - environmental drivers
KW  - environmental perceptions
KW  - environmental sustainability
KW  - erosion
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - experimental manipulations
KW  - extensive cattle rearing
KW  - farmer
KW  - farmers
KW  - fourth corner
KW  - fractal characteristics
KW  - fragmentation
KW  - functional traits
KW  - gender
KW  - geographically and temporally weighted regression
KW  - global change
KW  - gully agricultural production transformation
KW  - gully land consolidation
KW  - Hehe
KW  - hill country
KW  - Itombwe Mountains
KW  - kānuka
KW  - karst mountain area
KW  - katun
KW  - Kilimanjaro
KW  - land abandonment
KW  - land function
KW  - land management
KW  - land-use change
KW  - Landsat
KW  - local knowledge
KW  - long-term research
KW  - Maxent
KW  - meadows
KW  - Mediterranean
KW  - mitigation policies
KW  - model complexity
KW  - model validation
KW  - Montenegro
KW  - mountain
KW  - mountain agroecosystems
KW  - mountain observatories
KW  - mountain vegetation
KW  - mountains
KW  - mowing tolerance
KW  - multi-disciplinary research
KW  - mycorrhizas
KW  - n/a
KW  - natural geographical features
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - pastures
KW  - perceptions
KW  - policy assessment
KW  - policy trade-offs
KW  - poplar
KW  - population
KW  - population trends
KW  - precipitation
KW  - PRISMA
KW  - RLQ
KW  - rural development
KW  - rural mountain settlements
KW  - rural space
KW  - satellite data
KW  - shifting cultivation
KW  - silvopasture
KW  - small-scale context
KW  - social context
KW  - socio-ecological coupling
KW  - socio-economic drivers
KW  - soil conservation
KW  - Southern Africa
KW  - spatial effects
KW  - species abundance
KW  - species distribution models
KW  - spreadsheet
KW  - suitable space
KW  - sustainable development
KW  - sustainable land use
KW  - swiddens
KW  - traditional architecture
KW  - traditional fallow
KW  - transhumance
KW  - tree invasions
KW  - Udzungwa
KW  - urbanisation
KW  - vegetation
KW  - vernacular heritage
KW  - water-facing distribution
KW  - wealth group
KW  - wealth groups
KW  - woody plant encroachment
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Mountain forests and alpine ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and endemism, and they are also large global carbon stores. They are highly threatened by climate change, population growth and land use change. Mountains represent an ideal natural laboratory in which the evolution of social-ecological systems can be investigated and to the current challenges and opportunities that this past evolution has created can be assessed. Mountains have been centres of past development and conduits for the spread of crops, populations and technologies. They were and remain a locus for cultural interaction, as manifested recently in many parts of the world at the local level through pastoral-agricultural-urban interactions over access to space and resources, particularly water. The relevance and impact of this Special Issue on mountains goes beyond academia, as practitioners and policymakers need key information on the dynamics and changes in threatened ecosystems to help design and implement appropriate management strategies for sustainable mountain futures
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/113889
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/7730
ER  -