Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future Directions
Mountains are facing growing environmental, social, and economic challenges. Accordingly, effective policies and management approaches are needed to safeguard their inhabitants, their ecosystems, their biodiversity, and the livelihoods they support. The formulation and implementation of such policie...
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| description | Mountains are facing growing environmental, social, and economic challenges. Accordingly, effective policies and management approaches are needed to safeguard their inhabitants, their ecosystems, their biodiversity, and the livelihoods they support. The formulation and implementation of such policies and approaches requires a thorough understanding of, and extensive knowledge about, the interactions between nature and people particular to mountain social–ecological systems. Here, we applied the conceptual framework of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to assess and compare the contents of 631 abstracts on the interactions among biodiversity, ecosystem services, human wellbeing, and drivers of change, and formulate a set of research recommendations. Our comparative assessment of literature pertained to the Andes, the East African mountains, the European Alps, and the Hindu Kush Himalaya. It revealed interesting differences between mountain systems, in particular in the relative importance given in the literature to individual drivers of change and to the ecosystem services delivered along elevational gradients. Based on our analysis and with reference to alternative conceptual frameworks of mountain social–ecological systems, we propose future research directions and options. In particular, we recommend improving biodiversity information, generating spatially explicit knowledge on ecosystem services, integrating knowledge and action along elevational gradients, generating knowledge on interacting effects of global change drivers, delivering knowledge that is relevant for transformative action toward sustainable mountain development, and using comprehensive concepts and codesigned approaches to effectively address knowledge gaps. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-045eb41cb29d4ab4bfc9af17a0a8fd3f2022-12-21T23:11:22ZengInternational Mountain SocietyMountain Research and Development0276-47411994-71512020-05-01402A1A14https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00075.1Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future DirectionsDavnah Payne0Mark Snethlage1Jonas Geschke2Eva M. Spehn3Markus Fischer4Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, SwitzerlandGlobal Mountain Biodiversity Assessment, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, SwitzerlandInstitute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, SwitzerlandSwiss Academy of Natural Sciences, Forum Biodiversity, Haus der Akademien, Laupenstrasse 7, 3001 Bern, SwitzerlandGlobal Mountain Biodiversity Assessment, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, Switzerland; Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, SwitzerlandMountains are facing growing environmental, social, and economic challenges. Accordingly, effective policies and management approaches are needed to safeguard their inhabitants, their ecosystems, their biodiversity, and the livelihoods they support. The formulation and implementation of such policies and approaches requires a thorough understanding of, and extensive knowledge about, the interactions between nature and people particular to mountain social–ecological systems. Here, we applied the conceptual framework of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to assess and compare the contents of 631 abstracts on the interactions among biodiversity, ecosystem services, human wellbeing, and drivers of change, and formulate a set of research recommendations. Our comparative assessment of literature pertained to the Andes, the East African mountains, the European Alps, and the Hindu Kush Himalaya. It revealed interesting differences between mountain systems, in particular in the relative importance given in the literature to individual drivers of change and to the ecosystem services delivered along elevational gradients. Based on our analysis and with reference to alternative conceptual frameworks of mountain social–ecological systems, we propose future research directions and options. In particular, we recommend improving biodiversity information, generating spatially explicit knowledge on ecosystem services, integrating knowledge and action along elevational gradients, generating knowledge on interacting effects of global change drivers, delivering knowledge that is relevant for transformative action toward sustainable mountain development, and using comprehensive concepts and codesigned approaches to effectively address knowledge gaps.https://bioone.org/doi/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00075.1global changeipbes frameworkliterature assessmentmountain biodiversitymountain social–ecological systems |
| spellingShingle | Davnah Payne Mark Snethlage Jonas Geschke Eva M. Spehn Markus Fischer Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future Directions Mountain Research and Development global change ipbes framework literature assessment mountain biodiversity mountain social–ecological systems |
| title | Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future Directions |
| title_full | Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future Directions |
| title_fullStr | Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future Directions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future Directions |
| title_short | Nature and People in the Andes, East African Mountains, European Alps, and Hindu Kush Himalaya: Current Research and Future Directions |
| title_sort | nature and people in the andes east african mountains european alps and hindu kush himalaya current research and future directions |
| topic | global change ipbes framework literature assessment mountain biodiversity mountain social–ecological systems |
| url | https://bioone.org/doi/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00075.1 |
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