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Mountain research across boundaries: A portrait of the international scientific committee on research in the Alps (ISCAR)
The (European) Alpine Convention is a commitment with the status of international law, signed in 1991 by all Alpine states. The parties—Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the principalities of Liechtenstein and Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland, and the European Union—have agreed to cooperate with regard to sustainable development in the Alps. The domains and modalities of cooperation...
Ecological responses to the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens

The eruption of Mount St Helens on 18 May 1980 transformed more than 600 km 2 of green coniferous forests and clear cold lakes and streams of the Cascade Mountains to a grey ash- and pumice- covered landscape.  Although other volcananic eruptions have had more important consequences, the 1980 eruption and ensuing ecological responses are the most thoroughly studied in the world. ...

Sustainability-oriented research and development: The Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Berne
The Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) is a university-based institution that conducts resource- and people-centred research and development activities in Switzerland and abroad. Mountain development is one of CDE's focus areas. CDE is part of the Institute of Geography at the University of Berne and is the lead institution for the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (...
The SAMBA role play game in northern Vietnam: An innovative approach to participatory natural resource management

The present article describes an experiment using the SAMBA role play game as a research tool in Bac Kan province of Vietnam, in the framework of the Mountain Agrarian Systems Program, a joint research project of the Vietnam Agricultural Science Institute, the International Rice Research Institute, the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, and the Centre de Coopération...

Spatial analysis of socioeconomic issues: Gender and GIS in Nepal

Spatial patterns in socioeconomic data reveal issues and trends that would otherwise be missed by data aggregation to political or other units. Geographic Information System GIS) tools provide display and analysis capabilities that are underutilized by many social scientists. The present article combines field-based surveys that maintain locational information with GIS tools to examine gender...

Applied remote sensing in mountain regions: A workshop organized by EURAC in the core of the Alps
Mountain areas are highly dynamic and sensitive regions. Changes in human land use and climate conditions, an increasing number of natural hazard phenomena, and increased competition in a globalised economy are putting the environment and societies in mountain regions under pressure. Consequently, the observation of these phenomena or their representative indicators at various scales in time and...
MRI Newsletter 9: MRI's Global Change Research Network in European Mountains (GCRN_EM)
MRI launched the GCRN_EM at a workshop on 1-2 February 2007 in Zurich, Switzerland: "Developing a Global Change Network in European Mountains: Going Beyond FP7."  GCRN_EM is one of several networks supported by MRI.  With the GLOCHAMORE Research Strategy, MRI has produced a framework for research. However it is through the regional networks that the strategy becomes tangible.
The dynamics of secondary forest landscapes in the Lower Mekong Basin: A regional-scale analysis
Secondary forests in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) are increasingly recognized as a valuable component of land cover, providing ecosystem services and benefits for local users. A large proportion of secondary forests in the LMB, especially in the uplands, are maintained by swidden cultivation. In order to assess the regional-scale status and dynamic trends of secondary forests in the LMB, an...
Measured and modelled sublimation on the tropical Glaciar Artesonraju, Peru
Sublimation plays a decisive role in the surface energy balance of tropical glaciers. During the dry season low specific humidity and high surface roughness favour the direct transition from ice to vapour and drastically reduce the energy available for melting. However, field measurements are scarce and little is known about the performance of sublimation parametrisations in glacier mass balance...
Quasi-3-D resistivity imaging - mapping of heterogeneous frozen ground conditions using electrical resistivity tomography

Up to now an efficient 3-D geophysical mapping of the subsurface in mountainous environments with rough terrain has not been possible. A merging approach of several closely spaced 2-D electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) surveys to build up a quasi-3-D model of the electrical resistivity is presented herein as a practical compromise for inferring subsurface characteristics and lithology....

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