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Mountain Research and Development issue online

26.06.2017

Articles in Mountain Research and Development (MRD) often relate to the climate change debate at the core of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process currently gearing up for the 6th Assessment Report. Two papers in this open issue offer contrasting positions: one is critical and advocates a stronger local perspective (on mismanagement of irrigation water and landslips in Pakistan), while the other uses the global perspective to discover patterns (in a review of climate change impacts on ecosystem services). Other papers deal with maize diversity and poverty reduction in Guatemala, offer a new approach to assessing tap water recharge in Japan, present a method for measuring bark biomass in Nepal, and assess the habitat ecology of a profitable but endemic resource in Tibet.

This issue of MRD also contains an update on the activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) related to sustainable mountain development and watershed management – read more.

Volume 27, Number 2 of MRD is available online and open access:
www.bioone.org/toc/mred/37/2 

Read about the journal’s section policies, guidelines and submission procedure at:
www.mrd-journal.org/

To contact the MRD Editorial Team:
MRD Editorial Office, University of Bern, Centre for Development and Environment
[email protected]