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Mountain Research and Development issue online

25.09.2014

A decade after the last issue of Mountain Research and Development dedicated to women in mountains, the current issue (Volume 34, Issue 3) on Gender and Sustainable Development in Mountains, provides evidence of the progress made in gender research on sustainable development in mountains. At the same time, it offers important insight into what still needs to be done.

MountainDevelopment articles analyse the impacts of development efforts in mountain regions of Nepal, India and Ecuador, and show that interventions often inadvertently benefit men more than women. MountainResearch articles explore the different ways in which women and men in India, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Austria negotiate change, development interventions and migration, and how this influences their daily lives in terms of their relations, power struggles, and access to resources.

A MountainAgenda article proposes steps for better integrating gender issues into protected area management in the European Alps. Some of the articles emerged from the 2012 Bhutan+10 Conference on “Gender and Sustainable Mountain Development in a Changing World.” This special issue was guest edited and supported by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, Nepal, who are also producing a print version.

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