Landslides susceptibility mapping using fuzzy logic and AHP by Malihe Mohammadnia, GholamAbbas Fallah

“…Landslide, due to its dangerous nature in mountainous areas, usually causes morphology to suddenly collapse and causes major damage to residential areas, roads, agricultural lands, and so on. …”
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Influential Theories of Economics in Shaping Sustainable Development Concepts by Faruque As Sunny, Eila Jeronen, Juping Lan

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‘Soltanto le montagne non si incontrano’. Buone pratiche per il recupero di colture/culture locali fra tradizione e innovazione by Laura Bonato

“…For some years now, however, there have been a number of projects throughout the Alps that are attempting to reintroduce different types of historically documented crops: for example, rye, a mountain cereal par excellence which, although not native to the Alps, was essential for food and everyday life until the 1950s. …”
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Dynamic Guidance Strategy for Pedestrian Travel in Large-Scale Activity under Harsh Environment by Wenbo Huang, Yanyan Chen, Shushan Chai, Huibo Bi

“…In this paper, a large-scale competition area in the Xiaohaituo Mountain in Beijing was taken as an example to simulate the scenarios of ingress and egress with and without the strategy. …”
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Intensified monsoonal rainstorm events over westerly-dominated Asian interior during the warm mid-Holocene by Peixian Shu, Weijian Zhou, Aaron E. Putnam, Baosheng Li, Shugang Kang, Yingying Sha, Zhengguo Shi, Guodong Ming, Hong Wang, Youbin Sun, David K. Wright, Weiguo Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Peng Cheng, Yougui Song, Dongfeng Niu, John R. Dodson, Hua Du, Jiaju Zhao, Zeke Zhang, Yahui Qiu, Zhisheng An

“…Strengthened water vapor fluxes associated with the boreal summer monsoon facilitated extreme rainfall events and enhanced mountain erosion. Our proxy-model comparison reveals a drier westerly regime superimposed with strengthened rainfall over the Asian interior during the warm mid-Holocene. …”
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Climatic Cycles and Gradients of the El Niño Core Region in North Peru by Rütger Rollenbeck, Fabian Bayer, Jannes Münchow, Michael Richter, Rodolfo Rodriguez, Nestor Atarama

“…Also, there are regional factors: an extended sea-breeze system, the barrier-effect of the Andes, additional energy input by elevated radiation absorption at the mountain slopes, local wind systems, and the variations of the sea surface temperature. …”
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An Overview: Organophosphate Flame Retardants in the Atmosphere by Hsin-Chieh Kung, Yen-Kung Hsieh, Bo-Wun Huang, Nicholas Kiprotich Cheruiyot, Guo-Ping Chang-Chien

“…OPFRs were also found in remote environments in Antarctica, the Arctic, and high mountains, suggesting long-range transport potential. …”
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Tourism commodification and privatization of nature: private protected areas in the Serra de Tramuntana (Mallorca) by Nora Müller, Robert Fletcher, Macià Blázquez Salom

“…To develop this analysis, we draw on the conceptual framework of commodification proposed by Castree (2003) to investigate a number of PPAs located in the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range on the island of Mallorca in Spain. …”
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Past and Future Exceedances of Nitrogen Critical Loads in Europe by Maximilian Posch, Jean-Paul Hettelingh, Petra Mayerhofer

“…It is shown that higher temperatures, changed precipitation patterns, and modified net primary production mainly increase critical loads, except in mountainous and arid regions. Using consistent scenarios of climate change and air pollution from a recently completed European study (AIR-CLIM), it is shown that the exceedances in 2100 of the critical loads are declining in comparison to 2010. …”
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Climate and Energy in Urban Areas to Reduce Energy Consumption, Case Study of Saadat Abad Building by pariz Amiri Ade, Saeed Tizghalam zenozi, Mehrdad Javidi Nejad

“…Upgrading of the exterior shell climatic design knowledge of the building on the southern flank of central Alborz mountain range of Tehran.…”
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Tinodes lumbardhi sp. nov. (Trichoptera, Psychomyiidae), a new species from the Lumbardhi i Deçanit River in Kosovo by Halil Ibrahimi, Astrit Bilalli, Milaim Musliu, Donard Geci, Linda Grapci Kotori

“…., from the Lumbardhi i Deçanit River in the Bjeshkët e Nemuna Mountains of Kosovo. The new species is closely related to Tinodes urdhva Olah, 2010 and Tinodes kimminsi Sykora, 1962, but differs in the shapes of segment IX, coxopodites, harpago, phallicata and the basal plate process.Tinodes lumbardhi sp. nov. represents the sixth recorded species of the genus Tinodes Curtis, 1834, in Kosovo. …”
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Highway Performance Evaluation Index in Semiarid Climate Region Based on Fuzzy Mathematics by Sanqiang Yang, Meng Guo, Xinlei Liu, Pidong Wang, Qian Li, Haiqing Liu

“…Due to the fuzziness and randomness of many factors affecting the pavement performance, this paper relies on the reconstruction and expansion project of Xinglin section of the Taihang mountain expressway, a method of highway pavement performance evaluation based on fuzzy mathematics is proposed. …”
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Loving and Healing a Hurt City: Planning a Green Monterrey Metropolitan Area by Rob Roggema, Igor Ishi Rubio Cisneros, Rodrigo Junco López, Paulina Ramirez Leal, Marina Ramirez Suarez, Miguel Ortiz Díaz

“…This approach reveals concrete and widespread pain in the metropolis, such as impacts on natural landscapes (rivers and mountains), air pollution, ecological degradation, and hydrological disconnections. …”
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Experimental Investigation on E-Waste Concrete Using Mineral Admixtures by Thulasirajan K., Sai Keerthi P., Lokesh D., Shiva Shankar Naik N., Sreekanth Y., Hemanth M.

“…The relentless pace of technological advancement generates mountains of discarded devices, creating the growing problem of electronic waste. …”
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Coupling Analysis of Hydrometeorology and Erosive Landforms Evolution in Loess Plateau, China by N. N. Cheng, H. M. He, Y. J. Lu, S. Y. Yang

“…The strong soil erosion area existed in the middle hilly-gully region, while the high precipitation was in southern mountains. Thirdly, erosion landform development was largely shaped by hydrometeorology characteristics in comparison with other contributors. …”
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La tradition de la cueillette du miel est-elle un frein au développement de l’apiculture dans l’Aire de Conservation de l’Annapurna (Népal) ? by Samuel Perichon, Chet Bhatta

“…The honey gathering from the colonies of the giant Himalayan honeybee (Apis laboriosa) in the Annapurna mountains of Nepal has been the subject of many reports and documentaries. …”
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Snowfall in the Northwest Iberian Peninsula: Synoptic Circulation Patterns and Their Influence on Snow Day Trends by Andrés Merino, Sergio Fernández, Lucía Hermida, Laura López, José Luis Sánchez, Eduardo García-Ortega, Estíbaliz Gascón

“…On the Iberian Peninsula, the Castilla y León region in the northwest consists of a central plateau surrounded by mountain ranges. This creates snowfalls that are considered both an important water resource and a transportation risk. …”
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Humus and Humic Acids of Luvisol and Cambisol of Jiguli Ridges, Samara Region, Russia by Evgeny Abakumov, Nobihudu Fujitake, Takashi Kosaki

“…These soils were studied in a mountain massive—Jiguli ridges of Samara region, Russia, East European part. …”
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Applying Environmental Isotope Theory to Groundwater Recharge in the Jiaozuo Mining Area, China by Pinghua Huang, Xinyi Wang

“…The second factor score is a fraction distribution in shallow groundwater and negative fraction distribution in spring and deep groundwater, which indicates that the Northern Taihang Mountain is the main recharge area, where carbonate-exposed areas exist. …”
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Improving the physical and mechanical properties new concrete containing crushed dune sand and demolition waste as coarse aggregate by Noureddine Agha, Abdelkadir Makkani, Ahmed Tafraoui, Said Zaouai

“…It helps in reducing the costs associated with managing demolition waste and contributes to the preservation of natural deposits and mountains by minimizing the demand for new quarries. …”
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