Livestock farming and the environmentally friendly management of Alpine pastures represent a traditional form of mountain farming. Grazing and the maintenance of pastures and the Alps are publicly subsidised in recognition of the ecological importance of the activities and because the costs are...

The challenges faced by farming communities, such as typhoons, floods, droughts, volcanic eruptions, and pest infestations, can pose significant costs on their livelihoods. This study examines the resilience of upland farming households using a small yet novel survey conducted in the...

Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim is one of the largest town in the state, located in the eastern Himalayan Region of the Indian state of Sikkim. Present paper aims to portray and enlighten the current waste management and practices in Gangtok. Reviews, the lately planned solid waste management...

Livestock farming and the environmentally friendly management of Alpine pastures represent a traditional form of mountain farming. Grazing and the maintenance of pastures and the Alps are publicly subsidised in recognition of the ecological importance of the activities and because the costs are...

In 2012 the European Union adopted the Regulation No. 1151/2012, which, among others, defines the legal framework to protect the originality and authenticity of mountain foods through the "Mountain Product" quality scheme. The research aims to analyze people's attitudes towards mountain foods...

Agriculture in Arunachal Pradesh, a state located in the eastern Himalayas, used to be primarily need-based. Slash and burn agriculture, locally called jhum, was the foundation of the traditional economy. In the past decades, agriculture in the mountain areas has undergone significant change....

The Community-based Upland PalayCheck System under the Upland Rice Development Program was used as a platform of implementation. It has eight (8) KeyChecks as farmers’ best practices and technologies in upland rice production. The study described the socio-demographic profile, institutional...

We examine the role of adopting environmentally-friendly agricultural technologies on the technical efficiency (TE) among maize farmers in the mountainous areas of Northern Vietnam. While technology adoption is non-randomly assigned to farmers, we draw on recent advances of machine learning...

As a clean and highly valuable renewable energy, wind energy has gradually become an important branch of energy technology. By means of measurement methods, the wind characteristics, energy applications for distributed wind energy source (DWES) in six sites in Henduan Mountains and economic...

Mountains and hilly regions in Poland are very important for Polish economy because they do not only account for 8% of Polish territory, but also fulfil a significant role in environmental protection of water supply for the rivers, in tourism and in the ecological chain of plants and animals....

Viehwirtschaftliche Nutzung und umweltschonende Bewirtschaftung der Almen stellen eine traditionsreiche Form der Berglandwirtschaft dar. Aufgrund der topographisch bedingten höheren Produktionskosten im Berggebiet und der ökologischen Bedeutung wird die landwirtschaftliche Beweidung und Pflege...

The study was conducted to evaluate farmers’ perception on environmental effects of pesticide usage in Indian mountain of Western Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh. The study was based on primary data collected from the farmers who involved in pesticides use in high value cash crops like...

Viehwirtschaftliche Nutzung und umweltschonende Bewirtschaftung der Almen stellen eine traditionsreiche Form der Berglandwirtschaft dar. Aufgrund der topographisch bedingten höheren Produktionskosten im Berggebiet und der ökologischen Bedeutung wird die landwirtschaftliche Beweidung und Pflege...

The paper presents opportunities for sustainable development of mountain regions in the Republic of Bulgaria analyzing good practices and providing recommendations for future development. The most important risks in the examined sectors in their joint development are considered and classified...

Die Bergbauern und -bäuerinnen in Garmisch-Partenkirchen und den gesamten Alpen sind die Nachfahren der Agrargemeinschaften, die die alpinen Räume vor etwa 10.000 Jahren urbar machten. Durch die Bearbeitung der natürlichen Gebirgslandschaft prägten Generationen von Bergbauern und...

Poverty and deforestation are critical issues in a number of developing countries where the policy framework is in many cases insufficient to provide rural people an incentive to afforest. This paper analyzes both the impact of land privatization on afforestation efforts of rural farm households...

Economic theory has suggests that increased tenure security will lead to increased productivity. However, existing literature on the relationship between land tenure and land productivity provides inconclusive evidence. The present paper analyzes the impact of land reform on chemical fertilizer...

Peri-urban agriculture is exposed to multiple pressures, which push to diversification and multifunctionality. However, the urban-rural link develops in different ways according to the features of the territories. A very interesting case is that of mountain areas, where the proportion among...

Peri-urban agriculture is exposed to multiple pressures, which push to diversification and multifunctionality. However, the urban-rural link develops in different ways according to the features of the territories. A very interesting case is that of mountain areas, where the proportion among...

Die gemeinschaftliche Nutzung von Ressourcen hat im Alpenraum eine lange Geschichte und grosse Aktualität. Die Beiträge in diesem Band diskutieren die Transformationsprozesse, welche die Kollektivkörperschaften durchlaufen haben, anhand diverser Fallbeispiele und unterschiedlicher...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Place Names and Measures -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Research Questions -- 2 The Geography -- 3 The Period -- 4 Book Structure -- Chapter 1 Transport Systems and the Southwest -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transport Technologies -- 3 Transport...

It is a well-established tenet of historical political economy that modern territorial states emerged as protection rackets that extracted taxes from vulnerable communities. This paper explores a variety of bargains between communities and their “protectors” based on factors that account for...

With a view to making the mountain products on the market more clearly identifiable and less misleading for consumers, the EU institutions legislated on a common definition of an optional quality term, 'mountain product', in the labelling of agricultural products. The term 'mountain product'...

With a view to making the mountain products on the market more clearly identifiable and less misleading for consumers, the EU institutions legislated on a common definition of an optional quality term, 'mountain product', in the labelling of agricultural products. The term 'mountain product'...

This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the...

Les territoires de montagne, envisagés dans cet ouvrage comme autant de laboratoires à ciel ouvert, ont permis une approche originale étudiée sur le temps long (XVIe-XXIe siècles). Le val de Suse, que l'on peut suivre au fil des siècles, des barricades de 1629 à la lutte anti-TGV, occupe...