31 Dec 2025 | Mountain Research and Development (MRD)

Mountain Research and Development Vol 45, No 4 available online and open access

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Large quantities of chhurpi—a hard cheese made from yak buttermilk—produced by a private dairy in Gatlang, Nepal. While the state-supported marketization of yak products has boosted some households’ income, it is simultaneously eroding traditional sustainable herding practices and causing environmental degradation, as shown in the article by Indra Mani Rai and colleagues in this issue. (Photo by Dipak Raj Rai)

Articles in this open issue’s MountainResearch section examine the shift from traditional to market-driven yak herding practices in Gatlang, Nepal; challenges in implementing UNESCO policies on science–society interaction in mountain biosphere reserves around the world; and the role of topography in socioeconomic development in the European Alps. In the MountainPlatform section, the Afromontane Research Unit presents the Mozambique Mountain Initiative, and the MountainMedia section offers a review of an ethnographic account of disappearing pastoralism in Bulgaria.

The issue is available online and open access:
https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development/volume-45/issue-4

Note that other issues are starting to fill up as well:
https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development/inprogress

Read about the journal’s section policies, guidelines, and submission procedure at:
https://www.mrd-journal.org/

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