Designing Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research on Mountains: What Place for the Unexpected?

Otero, Iago; Darbellay, Frédéric; Reynard, Emmanuel; Hetényi, György; Perga, Marie‐Elodie; Rüegg, Janine; Prasicek, Günther; Cracco, Marina; Fontcuberta, Amaranta; Vaan, Michiel de; García, Javier Crespo; Bussard, Jonathan; Clivaz, Christophe; Moos, Christine; Guisan, Antoine; Schaefli, Bettina; Mapelli, Nicola; Bellefroid, Benoit de

doi:10.1659/mrd-journal-d-20-00036.1

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“…Our study emphasizes the necessity of a true interdisciplinary approach, combining a variety of methods from natural and social sciences (cf. Otero et al, 2020;Reynard et al, 2020). This allows for consideration and combination of a variety of data sources as well as different temporal and spatial scales relevant for assessing the impacts of forest changes on flood risk.…”

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An Approach to Evaluate Mountain Forest Protection and Management as a Means for Flood Mitigation

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Gentile

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Front. For. Glob. Change

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We are of the opinion that environmental policies that are based on scientific knowledge at the time they are established need to be revisited in terms of the current knowledge and the effectiveness of these policies in protecting or promoting a particular ecosystem service. Here we use the first Swiss Federal Forest Law (1876) as a case example, which was established to protect mountain forests as a natural means of protection against natural hazards, particularly floods. We briefly summarize the current relevant scientific knowledge on (i) reasons for reforestation in mountains and how the law may have contributed, (ii) forest effects on hydrological regimes and their protection service against floods, and (iii) other watershed changes affecting both reforestation and the forest-runoff interaction. We then present insights from a case study on the Upper Rhone catchment, which lead us to develop a methodological approach based on interdisciplinary collaboration among social and natural sciences to gain the needed data to answer the question of whether a forest protection law can serve as a means of flood protection. Specifically, we found that a data interpolation method is key to answering this question given data are at different scales and resolutions and suggest modeling to fill gaps. Such methods and collaborations are key for basing environmental laws and policies in current scientific knowledge and effectively manage ecosystems and their services.

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An Approach to Evaluate Mountain Forest Protection and Management as a Means for Flood Mitigation

Rüegg

Moos

Gentile

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“…Transition management (Gössling et al 2012 ) is recommended in this case to ensure the sustainability of activities in the future. A transdisciplinary approach (Otero et al 2020 ), describing a reflection involving all parties—including researchers—could allow the tourism offer to be renewed. Moreover, transdisciplinarity offers an opportunity to redesign glacier tourism to achieve sustainable development goals (UNWTO and UNDP 2017 ).…”

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Glacier tourism and climate change: effects, adaptations, and perspectives in the Alps

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“…1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-22-00002.1.S1). Mountain science as a field has an uninterrupted (Glass et al 2013;Messerli 2012) and ongoing (eg Otero et al 2020;Sarmiento et al 2020) tradition of joint interdisciplinary research, which is an excellent basis for coping with the societal challenges of the 21st century.…”

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Joint Endeavor Toward Sustainable Mountain Development: Research at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Mountain Research and Development

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Designing Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research on Mountains: What Place for the Unexpected?

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An Approach to Evaluate Mountain Forest Protection and Management as a Means for Flood Mitigation

An Approach to Evaluate Mountain Forest Protection and Management as a Means for Flood Mitigation

Glacier tourism and climate change: effects, adaptations, and perspectives in the Alps

Joint Endeavor Toward Sustainable Mountain Development: Research at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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