Center for Advanced Studies

Center for Autonomy Experience

Center for Climate Change and Transformation 

Center for Global Mountain Safeguard Research

Center for Sensing Solutions

Institute for Alpine Environment

Institute for Applied Linguistics

Institute for Biomedicine

Institute for Comparative Federalism

Institute for Earth Observation

Institute for Minority Rights

Institute for Mummy Studies

Institute for Public Management

Institute for Regional Development

Institute for Renewable Energy

Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine

Research Across Institutes

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Jess Delves, a researcher at the  Center for Global Mountain Safeguard Research has edited a book on the growing mountain metropolis.  [Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa's Mountains](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-15773-8) is an open access book and collaborative effort between the University of the Free State and the Afromontane Research Unit which presents a multidisciplinary approach on developing cities and places the [United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals) at the heart of these research questions.

Most people haven’t heard of Phuthaditjhaba but what’s happening there can provide insights to some of the greatest challenges we are facing in terms of climate change, overpopulation and resource management. 

Open access answers for an emerging city

Graphic article - How what happens at altitude affects all ecosystems

Mountains are not islands

The public management expert Josef Bernhart reminds us that the state is all of us. And the bureaucracy we like to moan about also creates security and guarantees equal rules for society. How managing risks and the day-to-day existence of mountain regions in low-income countries can be threatened without functioning administration and controls is something that geographer Stefan Schneiderbauer sees time and again. The two researchers work under conceivably different conditions, but with the same goal: sustainable development. 

Conversations between disciplines: interview with business economist Josef Bernhart and geographer Stefan Schneiderbauer.

"Our attitude toward the state is that of consumers" 

# From the Alps to the Andes. Following our Interregional Training Course on Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Soil and Water Management in High Mountainous Regions we speak to two of its participants - Stefan Scheiderbaeur and Fabiana Mercado Blanco 

 Climate change adaptation strategies particularly urgent in mountain regions

"Closing the gap between research and policy"

Algorithms and statistical models for water management are becoming increasingly accurate. Especially in Europe and the economically developed countries, forecasting models process a huge amount of very detailed data from weather stations and satellite maps estimating snow cover. By cross-referencing these and other physical data, they are able to estimate how much water will be available in a certain area in the near future. However,  not everything always works out as it should. 

Mathematical models for drought management would be more effective if they used social and cultural variables - how these solutions can best be integrated is the subject of current research.

The human factor

Dr. Shen Xiaomeng, newly appointed UNU Vice-Rector in Europe and Director of the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security, on climate change, natural hazards versus man-made disasters, environmentally induced migration and the necessity of transforming the course of human purpose and belief.

Shen Xiaomeng on mountains, migration and moving towards a revised way of living

Resetting Mindsets 

Il biologo Andreas Hilpold sulla biodiversità in alta quota

"Le montagne sono come isole"

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Mountains are not islands

Graphic article - How what happens at altitude affects all ecosystems

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"Our attitude toward the state is that of consumers"

Conversations between disciplines: interview with business economist Josef Bernhart and geographer Stefan Schneiderbauer.

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"Closing the gap between research and policy"

Climate change adaptation strategies particularly urgent in mountain regions

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The human factor

Mathematical models for drought management would be more effective if they used social and cultural variables - how these solutions can best be integrated is the subject of current ...

interview

interview

Resetting Mindsets

Shen Xiaomeng on mountains, migration and moving towards a revised way of living

interview

interview

"Le montagne sono come isole"

Il biologo Andreas Hilpold sulla biodiversità in alta quota

Magazine

Stories by Institute & Center

Center for Global Mountain Safeguard Research

interview

interview

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Open access answers for an emerging city

Most people haven’t heard of Phuthaditjhaba but what’s happening there can provide insights to some of the greatest challenges we are facing in terms of climate change, ...

Mountains are not islands

Graphic article - How what happens at altitude affects all ecosystems

"Our attitude toward the state is that of consumers"

Conversations between disciplines: interview with business economist Josef Bernhart and geographer Stefan Schneiderbauer.

"Closing the gap between research and policy"

Climate change adaptation strategies particularly urgent in mountain regions

The human factor

Mathematical models for drought management would be more effective if they used social and cultural variables - how these solutions can best be integrated is the subject of current ...

Resetting Mindsets

Shen Xiaomeng on mountains, migration and moving towards a revised way of living

"Le montagne sono come isole"

Il biologo Andreas Hilpold sulla biodiversità in alta quota