The European Union has seen a strong growth of electric passenger vehicles over the last decade. The steady increase in the number of electric vehicles requires a thorough examination of the current infrastructure and their future development, which...
The study gives an insight into the domain of seasonal mountain settlements for summer cattle grazing (katuns), characteristic for the mountainous areas in the Mediterranean basin. The area of the Kuči Mountain in Montenegro was chosen for the case s...
Rural mountain areas and their local communities have been subject to research interest over time due to their large amount of available resources, but also their problems. The strategy for some of the rural mountain communities to simultaneously pre...
Mountain area is one of the most important modern tourist attractions, and unique mountain landscapes are highly appealing to millennials. Millennials post their travel photos and comments on social media, and these media messages can positively infl...
Centaurea subsection Phalolepis has been thoroughly analyzed in previous studies using microsatellites in four centers of speciation: Anatolia, Greece, the Italian Peninsula and the Iberian Peninsula. Evidence suggests a correlation between taxon div...
With the recent changes in population structure and continuous urbanization, the degree of population shrinkage in mountain cities has increased, especially under the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, and the economic development of such mountain citi...
Mountains are remarkable storehouses of global biodiversity that provide a broad range of ecosystem services underpinning billions of livelihoods. The world’s network of protected areas includes many iconic mountain landscapes. However, only ca...
Mountain tourism is increasingly recognised as an important component of rural development and local community livelihood strategies. Although existing scholarship establishes the multidimensional nature of mountain tourism, few studies place facilit...
Since entering the process of industrialization, human activities have interfered with the original ecological environment, and the expansion of cities has also impacted the ecological service function. In order to maintain the balance of the ecosyst...
Mountain cities with complex topographies have always been highly vulnerable areas to global environmental change, prone to geological hazards, climate change, and human activities. Exploring and analyzing the vulnerability of coupling systems in mou...
The present study aimed to explore traditional farming and its role in sustainable development of the mountainous area based on the indigenous community of Wutai in Taiwan as a case study. It adopted qualitative methods with an ethnographic orientati...
Mountain glaciers are the most direct and sensitive indicators of climate change. In the context of global warming, monitoring changes in glacier elevation has become a crucial issue in modern cryosphere research. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Invest...
Picea abies L. Karst is undeniably one of the most important tree species growing in Slovakia. In addition to natural mountain spruce forests, monocultures planted in lower areas are also quite common. In this article, we analyze the climate–growth r...
High mountain terrains, with steep slopes and deep valleys, are generally challenging areas to monitor using satellite earth observation techniques since the terrain creates perspective distortions and differences in illumination that can occlude or...
Land surface temperature (LST) is crucial for understanding winter landslide evolution. This study combines Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry and infrared thermography (IRT) to monitor winter landslides in China’s Wumeng Mountain reg...
Conservation-oriented renewal of traditional rural settlements increasingly requires evidence-based color control that considers both natural environmental backgrounds and built-cultural interfaces. This study examined whether built-cultural colors i...
Digital transformation of the timber supply chain is more relevant at present than ever before. Timber tracking is one example of digital transformation, and can be performed in various locations, from the forest to the mill, or even beyond, to the f...
Permafrost distribution is of great significance for the study of climate, ecology, hydrology, and infrastructure construction in high-cold mountain regions with complex topography. Therefore, updated high-resolution permafrost distribution mapping i...
Precise vegetation maps of mountainous areas are of great significance to grasp the situation of an ecological environment and forest resources. In this paper, while multi-source geospatial data can generally be quickly obtained at present, to realiz...
This study developed an analysis based on children’s multi-sensory experiences and preferences in urban forest park to make practical suggestions for the design of children’s activity areas. Taking Maofeng Mountain Forest Park in Guangzho...
Forest ecological compensation policies (FECPs) are a key institutional arrangement for balancing ecological conservation and farmers’ development needs in national parks. Existing research has often treated such policies as a homogeneous whole...
Accurate monitoring of water quality in karst mountainous reservoirs, where the ecosystems are fragile, is central to sustainable water resource management and risk mitigation. Existing remote sensing inversion studies, however, have mostly relied on...
Mountainous cultural landscapes, characterized by fragmented heritage sites, present significant challenges for integrated conservation and regional planning. Taking the Mount Song Culture Circle in Dengfeng City, China—a World Heritage site em...
The campus environment directly impacts college students’ psychological and emotional well-being, influencing their behavioral performance and the development of their personalities. Investigating the complex relationship between the campus spa...
This article is focused on a case study of the topology optimisation of a bike stem manufactured by selective laser melting (SLM) additive technology. Topology optimisation was used as a design tool to model a part with less material used for transfe...
Alpine mountain regions are shaped by interacting ecological processes. Using Aba Prefecture on the eastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau as a case study, we derived sensitivity indices for desertification, soil erosion, landslide disaster, freeze&ndas...
In Republic of Korea, the digital transformation of forest data has emerged as a critical priority at the governmental level. To support this effort, numerous case studies have been conducted to collect and analyze forest data. This study evaluated t...
Mountain rivers are characterized by steep gradients, high flow velocities, and flash flood regimes, and the interaction between in-stream bridge pier groups and flood flows is a persistent challenge in bridge hydraulics. This study investigates the...
HJ-1 charge-coupled device (CCD) data with high temporal and medium spatial resolution are widely used in environmental and disaster monitoring in China. However, due to bad weather, it is difficult to obtain sufficient time-continuous HJ-1 CCD data...
The aims of this case study are to assess water quality in a small, forested mountain catchment in the Black Forest, forming part of a National Park and Natura 2000 zone. Field work was carried out in the catchment of the Seebächle torrent, a sm...
Multi-stage hydraulic fracturing (MsHF) is the main technology to improve hydrocarbon recovery from shale plays. Associated with their rich organic contents and laminated depositional environments, shales exhibit transverse isotropic (TI) characteris...
There are complex interactions among various services in mountain ecosystems, and the optimization of ecosystem spatial patterns based on the trade-offs and synergies of mountain ecosystem services can effectively improve the comprehensive benefits o...
The ecological transition at the centre of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and the relevant EU policies are increasingly becoming an emerging issue in the political choices of most countries. It is an important challenge to ensure sustainable developm...
The “East Muddy Creek Landslide Complex” in Gunnison County, Colorado, USA destroyed Colorado State Highway 133 from 1986 to 1987 and has been investigated over decades during different periods of reactivation. This paper presents a case...
As university campuses increasingly open to the public and become integrated into urban tourism systems, campus spaces are evolving into institutionalized multifunctional environments shared by students and visitors. However, existing tourism conflic...
Poaching is one of the major types of wildlife crime in Russia. Remnants of goats (presumably the wild endemic species, the Caucasian tur) were found in an area of the Caucasian mountains. The case study involves a suspected poacher whose vehicle was...
As a country, Romania tries to communicate abroad its authenticity, intact nature and unique cultural heritage. This message matches perfectly the main attributes associated to Rodna Mountains National Park, as it is the second national park in Roman...
The application of Augmented Reality (AR), a technology that complements and enriches the live view of a place with virtual elements, is a relatively new approach that has been demonstrated to be useful as an educational tool for the interpretation o...
Mountain cities are characterized by undulating terrain, complex road networks, and diverse road facilities, which makes accessing food more difficult than in cities with a flat terrain. This study proposes an enhanced two-step method based on the Ba...
Evaluations of the sustainability of the viticulture associated with wine production are still scarce in the literature. Usually, the ‘carbon footprint’ assumes the environmental dimension, while the economic pillar is focused on market o...
This paper deals with the sustainability of tourism in Stolovi Mountain. The purpose of the research was to show that it is possible to develop sustainable tourism in unestablished localities, intending to reduce differences in regional development i...
Identifying the multi-scale drivers of ecosystem service (ES) trade-off intensity is essential for promoting regional sustainability. However, the existing multi-scale ES studies typically rely on predefined administrative units or fixed grid sizes d...
High mountain areas are critical for water security and natural hazard dynamics, as well as glacier and ecosystem conservation in a warming world. We present a brief account of the methodological steps for geomorphological mapping in mountain areas,...
A groundwater model is needed to describe the complex groundwater confluence process of the groundwater system in karst areas. This is because surface water flows through dolines, grikes, and by other means and is directly exchanged with the groundwa...
Precipitation in mountain regions is often highly variable and poorly observed, limiting abilities to manage water resource challenges. Here, we evaluate remote sensing and ground station-based gridded precipitation products over Nepal against weathe...
Verification and delimitation of existing and new surface forms of nature conservation require objective tools that elevate the significance of the conducted evaluations. If our main goal is to preserve biodiversity, it can be ensured through challen...
Mountainous regions with complex terrain often generate mixed pixels, reducing the accuracy of land use classification. This study evaluates the applicability and performance of eight commonly used Land Use Products (LUPs) with resolutions from 10 m...
The protection and restoration projects of the mountain-river-forest-field-lake-grass (MRFFLG) system are the mainstream focus of China’s current ecological environment protection. A reasonable method for calculating ecosystem service values (E...
As agricultural heritage systems provide crucial ecosystem service functions, conducting functional zoning serves as a fundamental and essential approach to implementing the ecological civilization strategy and promoting targeted conservation and sus...
Evaluation of land-use suitability can prevent problems, such as environmental disruption, wastage of resources, and ecological disruption, when unsuitable tourism-based exploration is undertaken in an area. This study summarizes a novel concept and...
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