Publishers
Mountain Research and Development (MRD) (ISSN 0276-4741, eISSN 1994-7151) is published by the International Mountain Society (IMS), c/o Centre for Development and Environment, Institute of Geography, University of Berne, Hallerstrasse 10, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Institutional Members of the International Mountain Society (IMS)
SDC, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Bern
ICIMOD, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu
FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
CIP–CONDESAN, Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion, Lima
CDE, Centre for Development and Environment, Bern
MRI, Mountain Research Initiative
WWF International
MRD collaborates with Mountain Forum (MF) and The Mountain Partnership (MP) to further the cause of mountains on the international development and research agendas.
Editorial Office
Hans Hurni, Editor-in-Chief
Theodore Wachs, Managing Editor
Susanne Wymann von Dach, Associate Editor
Anne Zimmermann, Associate Editor
Marlène Thibault, Assistant Editor
Lindsey Buscher, Production Editor
Jack D. Ives, Founding Editor
Regional Editors
Martin Price, Editor, MountainMedia and Regional Editor, Europe
Eklabya Sharma, Regional Editor, Asia
Fausto Sarmiento, Regional Editor, Latin America
Salomé Misana, Regional Editor, Africa
Alton Byers, Regional Editor, North America
International Editorial Advisory Board
Bina Agarwal (India), Yuri P. Badenkov (Russia), Roger G. Barry (USA), Gerardo Budowski (Costa Rica), Alejandro Camino (Peru), José M. García-Ruiz (Spain), Gregory B. Greenwood (Switzerland), Biksham Gujja (Switzerland), Lawrence S. Hamilton (USA), Thomas Hofer (Italy), Kebede Tato (Zambia), Thomas Kohler (Switzerland), Hermann Kreutzmann (Germany), Daniel Maselli (Switzerland), Mesfin Wolde-Mariam (Ethiopia), Bruno Messerli (Switzerland), Marcus Nüsser (Germany), D. Jane Pratt (USA), Robert E. Rhoades (USA), Andreas Schild (Nepal), Hans Schreier (Canada), Christoph Stadel (Austria), Michael Stocking (UK), Teiji Watanabe (Japan).
Publication Policy
Mountain Research and Development is published quarterly by the International Mountain Society and is freely available online and open access in collaboration with BioOne ( http://www.bioone.org/loi/mred). The journal is subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). Ownership of the copyright to articles is retained by the authors, but anyone may download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy articles in MRD provided that the original authors and source are cited. Permission for commercial use must be obtained from the author. For any reuse or redistribution of a work, the license terms under which the work was published must be made clear.
MRD is indexed in the Science Citation Index, Current Contents/ Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences, Geo Abstracts, C.A.B. International Series Checklist, AGRICOLA databases, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA), CABS (Current Awareness in Biological Sciences), and others.
Please address correspondence to:
MRD Editorial Office
Centre for Development and Environment
Institute of Geography, University of Bern
Hallerstrasse 10
3012 Bern, Switzerland
E-mail: mrd-journal@cde.unibe.ch
Internet: www.mrd-journal.org
Please note that all papers must now be submitted online.
See http://www.mrd-journal.org/submission.asp
Please send material for “MountainMedia” to:
Martin Price
Director, Centre for Mountain Studies
Perth College, UHI Millennium Institute
Crieff Road, Perth PH1 2NX, UK
Fax +44(0)1738-877 018
E-mail: martin.price@perth.uhi.ac.uk
Back Issues
MRD is now published online and open access in collaboration with BioOne. All back issues of MRD from 2000 onwards are available free of charge through BioOne; previous issues (1981–2000) are available online through JSTOR ( www.jstor.org) and single articles may be purchased there.
For single hardcopy issue sales from Volume 20 through Volume 28, please contact mrd-info@cde.unibe.ch
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© 2009 by the authors for the individual articles
