*Call for papers on "Vulnerability and resilience to natural hazards and
disasters in mountains" *
Mountain Research and Development (MRD) is seeking policy- and
practice-oriented, well-validated insights into the effectiveness of
disaster risk reduction and recovery approaches in mountains, as well
aspapers that present novel research findings on processes of natural
hazards and disasters from a social-ecological systems perspective and
on mountain communities' and environments' resilience and
vulnerabilities to hazards and disasters. MRD also welcomes research and
policy agendas that are based on comprehensive reviews of the state of
the art in research and development in the context of resilience,
natural hazards, and disasters in mountains.
Abstracts (optional) are due by 30 June 2014, full papers by 15
September 2014. For more information, please download the full call for
papers:
http://www.mrd-journal.org/pdf/MRD_call_Resilience_to_Natural_Hazards_and_Disasters.pdf
*/Mountain Research and Development/**, Volume 34, Issue 2 available
online and open access*
Papers in this open issue of /MRD/ discuss impacts of cultural and
economic changes on mountains, as well as mountains' role as resource
providers. Research topics include migration trends among ethnic
Tibetans in Nepal leading to depopulation of their native mountain
valleys; agriculture and development potentials in understudied
mountains of northeastern Thailand; prediction of tourist movements in a
protected area in northwest Yunnan; modelling of climate change impacts
on water availability in the Koshi River basin in Nepal; communities'
perceptions of changes in cattle breeding and forest grazing, as well as
of commercial oak harvesting for firewood, both in Bhutan; factors
determining firewood consumption in Tajikistan's Western Pamirs; and
soil degradation in a rarely studied mountain area in Benin.
http://www.bioone.org/toc/mred/34/2
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Jill S. Baron, Co-Director [email protected]
John Wesley Powell Center for Earth System Analysis and Synthesis
US Geological Survey [email protected]
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory ph 970-491-1968
Colorado State University fx 970-491-1965
Fort Collins CO 80523-1499 cell 970-217-8949
http://powellcenter.usgs.gov
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A scientist is known, not by his technical processes, but by his
intellectual processes. F.W. Peabody, 1927
