The WWF released on 30. October 2018 its 2018 Living Planet report concluding that humans have wiped out 60% of wildlife populations in just 40 years. The global situation is reflected in the Carpathian Mountains as presented in their common statement the WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme (WWF DCP) and the Science …
The Living Planet Report, WWF’s flagship publication released every two years, is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. The Living Planet Report 2018 is the twelfth edition of the report and provides the scientific evidence to what nature has been telling us …
The paper describing the historical land use dataset of the Carpathian region, making the whole dataset available online was published in the Journal of Maps.
Th paper analysing the extent of snow-avalanche in Parâng Mts, Southern Carpathians based on dendrogeomorphological reconstruction and remote sensing has just been published. The paper is available online.
Mountain Research and Development journal opened a call for papers in the topic: The Role of Culture in Transformation Towards Sustainable Development in Mountains Mountain communities are undergoing rapid sociocultural change, caused by drivers such as outmigration, urbanization, and increasing insertion into the market economy. Mountain cultural heritage is under …
The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C now available at http://ipcc.ch/report/sr15/
SIMRA’s fourth brochure collecting examples of social innovation in marginalised rural areas has just been published. This collection of brochures aims at concretely illustrating social innovation through the presentation of local on-going initiatives throughout Europe and the Mediterranean basin, taking turns addressing different marginalized rural areas. This brochure addresses mountain …
The 48-hour happening will take place between trees and ruins. It will develop a non-linear narrative on ‘speculative ecology’ – a field trial on an ecology with the active participation of fictional aliens, socio-techno-epistemological aliens, corrupted aliens, political, bureaucratic, endangered aliens. Together with the participation of humans the question is …
An interesting blogpost on Traditional Agricultural Landscape is now available online on MRI blog platform.
This Special Issue was inspired by the IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) 8.01.02 Landscape Ecology conference “The Green–Blue Nexus”. The topic addresses the conflict between provisioning services (biomass, food, fodder, etc. = the “Green”) and regulating services (e.g., drinking water provisioning, irrigation water, flood and erosion control = …
