Mountain Research and Development (Feb 2022)

Joint Endeavor Toward Sustainable Mountain Development: Research at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

  • Manfred Bardy-Durchhalter,
  • Oliver Bender,
  • Giulia Bertolotti,
  • Domenico Branca,
  • Valerie Braun,
  • Pascal Bohleber,
  • Daniela Festi,
  • Andrea Fischer,
  • Andreas Gschwentner,
  • Lea Hartl,
  • Andreas Haller,
  • Kay Helfricht,
  • Clemens Hiller,
  • Kati Heinrich,
  • Andrina Janicke,
  • Margreth Keiler,
  • Günter Köck,
  • Armin Kratzer,
  • Andrea Lamprecht,
  • Harald Pauli,
  • Annemarie Polderman,
  • Jan Pfeiffer,
  • Fernando Ruiz Peyré,
  • Patrick Saccone,
  • Brigitte Scott,
  • Bernd Seiser,
  • Martin Stocker-Waldhuber,
  • Thomas Zieher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-22-00002.1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 42, no. 1
pp. P1 – P4

Abstract

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The sustainable development of mountain regions requires inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge. The Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research contributes to this global endeavor as part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and as a member of international scientific networks, together with local partners and stakeholders. As a joint effort of individual researchers covering multiple fields, this article highlights our views on mountains as research objects, the phenomena we investigate as parts of entire mountain systems, and the synergies and differences of the disciplinary frames within which we work.

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