With the rapid development of urbanization, arable land abandonment is accelerating in China's mountainous areas. Alleviating the problem of land abandonment has emerged as an important issue of arable land use in China. To alleviate the abandonment of arable land, one of the key counter...

To accurately simulate the Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and evaluate the impact of drought on GPP at a regional scale in Taihang Mountains, we calibrated three parameters of maximum light use efficiency, optimum temperature, and maximum temperature in the Vegetation Photosynthesis Model...

Clean and efficient alternatives for sustainable treatment of pig farming wastes are a priority in suburban areas located at High Mountain ecosystems. Among these technologies are anaerobic and aerobic digestion with added microorganisms (bioaugmentation) or nutrients (biostimulation) as...

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...

On-farm product differentiation represents a valuable opportunity for mountain agriculture. Consumers appreciate mountain products' characteristics, but when signalling instruments are lacking, consumers might not be able to recognize (and pay for) them. Through a choice experiment, this paper...

We find that air pollution increases crime in a city that ranks in the worst two percentiles worldwide for dirty winter air. Our identification strategy employs distinct geographic features of Almaty, Kazakhstan: cleaner mountain winds and frequent temperature inversions. Using these variables...

Mountains play a critical role in water cycles in semiarid regions by providing for the majority of the total runoff. However, hydroclimatic conditions in mountainous regions vary considerably in space and time, with high interannual fluctuations driven by large-scale climate oscillations. Here,...

We study bank policies to limit lending to companies engaged in mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining, a form of coal extraction that has raised many environmental concerns. Using the staggered introduction of these policies, we document that these policies did not lead to meaningful changes in...

Soil trophic networks are key to biogeochemical cycles, in particular decomposition. However, few studies have yet quantified how microbial decomposition activity along environmental gradients is jointly driven by bacteria, fungi, and their respective consumers. Here, we quantified these direct...

European Commission has recently published the rules on the use of the quality term "mountain product". The new regulation aims to promote the sustainable development of mountain areas and to facilitate the identification of mountain products by consumers. Despite the importance of viticulture...

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...

"A sustainable approach to mountain tourism especially in the Himalayan region is essential to promote long-term growth, optimum use of resources, and maintain carrying capacity. This book will focus on challenges and prospects of tourism development in the great Himalayan region."

The paper looks first at the geographical conditions, specifically the economic, socio-cultural, demographic, and environmental, including local conditions as the vital factor underlying the course of transformation in mountainous rural areas. Next, the paper considers the results of the case...

Mountain areas with their environment and facilities, appear as important parts of tourist regions with a potential for the development of complementary activities and a year-long tourism. Possibilities for the development of mountain tourism depend on the size of the mountain area, the nature...

The study intends to assess water scarcity, seasonal variations, and social conflicts through a cross sectional study based on people's perceptions. A well-structured questionnaire coupled with an interview schedule was used for data collection from the 60 households living in the mountainous...

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...

European mountains protection represents one of the most important holdings of the European desideratum. As known, mountains offer higher quality in all living, namely biodiversity of air – water – soil. The ecosystem of mountain area is designed to sustain a better life for human being and...

Serbia has extraordinary conditions for considerably bigger herbal and livestock organic production. The constant growth of the demand for the organic products in the world points to the fact that this method of production can be extremely profitable if natural resources, knowledge and...

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....

Rural livelihoods in Tajikistan heavily rely on natural resources and the agriculture sector. A large proportion of the rural population depends on agriculture, and weather-related calamities are exerting increasing pressure on natural resources and agricultural sectors, the major contributors...

Despite the large use of the travel cost method as estimation technique for the demand for forest recreation, information on price elasticity is only seldom reported. In this way, it is hard to understand if a large consumer surplus could be reflected in income opportunities for the local...