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 = …
First MOOC focused on Landscape Ecology was prepared by ETH Zurich & WSL. Participants learn theory, methods and tools to understand the landscapes we live in and to solve landscape-related environmental problems. the course is available online.
Coordinator of a LIFE project focused on green infrastructure in Polish Carpathians would like to kindly request your assistance in identifying and providing basic information on undertakings implemented in other Carpathian countries in connection with green infrastructure. Assessment of the current state of green infrastructure development in whole Carpathians is …
The research conducted in the Polish Carpathians showed that forest cover increase is not directly related to forest fragmentation decrease. The research was prepared on a comparison of four datasets covering more than 150 years. The results are available online on the Sustainability website.
