A Senior Scientist at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, I pursue the approach of montology, a transdisciplinary field of landscape research committed to the sustainable development of mountain environments. Keywords: mountain geography, regional planning, landscape development.
Themes
Land governance, Land management systems, Urban-rural interactions, Land use and conflict
A new paper in Society & Natural Resources asks: What if the unintended misuse of the landscape concept by researchers and, consequently, by practitioners, in cultures where there is no such notion or univocal idea, were an obstacle for managing natural resources sustainably and achieving well-being of humans and nonhumans?