Publisher
Mountain Research and Development (MRD) (online ISSN 1994-7151, print ISSN 0276-4741) is published by the International Mountain Society (IMS), c/o Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Institutional Members of the International Mountain Society (IMS)
ARU, Afromontane Research Unit, University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa
CDE, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland
CIRM, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
CMN, Canadian Mountain Network, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
CONDESAN, Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion, Lima, Peru
FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
FoLAP, Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks, Bern, Switzerland
GLOMOS, Global Mountain Safeguard Research, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany and Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
ICIMOD, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
IGF/ÖAW, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
IMHE, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
MRI, Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland
UCAS, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
MRD collaborates with Mountain Forum and The Mountain Partnership to further the cause of mountains on the international development and research agendas.
Editorial Office
Thomas Breu, Editor-in-Chief
Pema Gyamtsho, Editor-in-Chief
Yanfen Wang, Editor-in-Chief
Susanne Wymann von Dach, Associate Editor
Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Associate Editor
Carolina Adler, MountainMedia Editor
Marlène Thibault, Assistant Editor
Production Editors at Allen Press
International Editorial Board
Irasema Alcántara-Ayala (Mexico), João Carlos Azevedo (Portugal), Ruchi Badola (India), Jörg Balsiger (Switzerland), Jill M. Belsky (USA),
Oliver Bender (Austria), Astrid Björnsen Gurung (Switzerland), Rosalind Bryce (UK), Vincent Ralph Clark (South Africa), Peng Cui (China), Thomas Dax (Austria), Andrea Fischer (Austria), Yayoi Fujita Lagerqvist (Sweden), Georg Gratzer (Austria), H. Ricardo Grau (Argentina), Andreas Heinimann (Switzerland), Thomas Hofer (Thailand), Bahadar Nawab Khattak (Pakistan), Hermann Kreutzmann (Germany), Karina Liechti (Switzerland), Bancy Mati (Kenya), Graham McDowell (Canada), Joanne Millar (Australia), Geoffrey Mukwada (South Africa), Sara Nowreen (Bangladesh), Marcus Nüsser (Germany), Iago Otero (Switzerland), Stefano Pagiola (USA), Davnah Payne (Switzerland), Manuel Peralvo (Equador), Julio Postigo (USA), Emmanuel Reynard (Switzerland), Nadine Salzmann (Switzerland), Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt (Germany), Stefan Schneiderbauer (Italy), Eklabya Sharma (Nepal), Surendra Pratap Singh (India), Thomas Streifeneder (Italy), Joerg Szarzynski (Germany), Yanhong Wu (China), Maria Wurzinger (Austria), Jianchu Xu (China), Kai Xue (China), Gete Zeleke (Ethiopia), Wei Zhao (China), Anne Zimmermann (Switzerland).
Representatives of IMS Institutional Members
Carolina Adler (MRI, Switzerland); María Argüello (CONDESAN, Peru); V. Ralph Clark (ARU, South Africa); Andrea Fischer (IGF/ÖAW, Austria); Yonggang Ge (IMHE, China); Andreas Heinimann (CDE, Switzerland); Rosalaura Romeo (FAO, Italy); Nicole Olivier (CMN, Canada); Emmanuel Reynard (CIRM, Switzerland); Stefan Schneiderbauer and Joerg Szarzynski (GLOMOS, Italy and Germany); Ursula Schüpbach (FoLAP, Switzerland); Laurie Vasily (ICIMOD, Nepal); Kai Xue (UCAS, China).
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 ( https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development).
The journal is subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Ownership of the copyright in articles is retained by the authors, but anyone may read, download, copy, reuse, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of articles in MRD provided that the original authors and source are properly acknowledged and cited. For any reuse or redistribution of a work, the license terms under which the work was published must be made clear.
Print Version
The MRD Editorial Office supplies print-ready PDF files of individual articles or entire issues including covers for delocalized printing to Institutional Members of the IMS upon request. Authors and readers may produce their own printouts from the downloadable PDFs available at https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development/issues.
Indexing
MRD is indexed in the Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences, Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews, Geo Abstracts, C.A.B. International Series Checklist, AGRICOLA databases, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA), CABS (Current Awareness in Biological Sciences), and others. MRD is also listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), ProQuest, EBSCO, and Gale/Cengage Learning.
Correspondence
Please address correspondence to:
MRD Editorial Office
Centre for Development and Environment University of Bern
Mittelstrasse 43
3012 Bern, Switzerland
E-mail: mrd-journal.cde@unibe.ch
Internet: www.mrd-journal.org
Please note that all papers must be submitted online.
See https://www.mrd-journal.org/for-authors/
Please send material for “MountainMedia” to:
Dr. Carolina Adler
Executive Director, Mountain Research Initiative
MRI Coordination Office
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
University of Bern
Mittelstrasse 43
3012 Bern
Switzerland
Back Issues
MRD is published online and open access in collaboration with BioOne. All back issues of MRD from 2000 onwards are available online and free of charge through BioOne; previous issues (1981–2000) are available online through JSTOR ( www.jstor.org), and single articles as well as entire issues 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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