Labelling, (re)qualifying and disqualifying marginal spaces. The case of saffron in Taliouine (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) by Mari Oiry Varacca

“…This article examines how agricultural products from marginalised mountain regions in Morocco manage to get labels. The country’s public authorities present labelling as a new way of requalifying areas that have previously been left behind. …”
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The Dissenting Nights of the Neo-Wood Colliers of the Vercors: A Forest Chronotope for a Heterotopia by Christophe Baticle, Philippe Hanus

“…Above and beyond the heritage aspect, this collective experience of the night in a mountain forest does not exclude variations in the realms of the imaginary, symbolic and political. …”
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Identifying mechanisms of tropical cyclone generated orographic precipitation with Doppler radar and rain gauge observations by Lin-Wen Cheng, Cheng-Ku Yu, Syuan-Ping Chen

“…This study explored this issue using a high-density rain gauge network and Doppler radar observations to investigate an intense orographic precipitation event over Da-Tun Mountain (DT) in northern Taiwan associated with Typhoon Meari (2011). …”
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Societal Opposition to Tourism-Related Development in the Hautes-Pyrénées: a Missed Opportunity for Territorial Innovation? by Sylvie Clarimont, Vincent Vlès

“…Unlike the protest movements of the 1970s, these citizens’ associations remain pragmatic, non-hierarchical and local, led by ‘mountain folk’. Some local campaigns are ambiguous in nature and bring together a highly diverse array of stakeholders with interests in the local economy. …”
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Le paysage à l’épreuve des « nouveaux » défis de l’aménagement du territoire au Maroc : contraintes et perspectives by Mustapha El Hannani, Aude Nuscia Taïbi, Yahia El Khalki, Abdelhalim Benyoucef

“…This analysis focused on history/space and security has lead to the marginalization of some regions, in particular the mountain considered as "useless" space. Since the creation of a Ministry of regional planning, a new consciousness has appeared. …”
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The Assertion of French Opposition to the “Lyon-Turin” Rail Link: a Conflict Between Liminality and Intermediate Spatiality by Kevin Sutton

“…The article thus hopes to contribute to a more meaningful reflection on the distinction between “localness” and “proximity” by studying the relationship between protest movements and “mountain areas” as an entity in the process of the social construction of a line of argument.…”
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An Intercomparison between ERA-Interim Reanalysis and Observed Precipitation in Northeast China by Jie Zhou, Junhu Zhao

“…In spring, autumn, and winter, the ERA-Interim precipitation value is close to the observation one, while in summer there is a large difference in Liaoning Peninsula and Changbai Mountain between the two kinds of precipitation data. …”
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Multiscale Analysis of Mechanical Properties and Kinetic Processes in Dry Granular Flow by Ran Xu, Enlong Liu, Jianhe Li

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Adaptation et hybridation des communs en territoire Aït Oucheg, Haut Atlas, Maroc by Charles Bonnin, Elouarti Ayoub, Bruno Romagny, Michel Vaillant, Geneviève Michon, Saïd Boujrouf, Mohammed Aderghal

“…In marginalised rural territories (mountains, oases, steppe, etc.), this infatuation for the associative phenomenon is in phase with two major factors : the partial disengagement of the State and a tendency towards the breakdown of collective action. …”
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Patron-client and Lindu lake tourism development by Hasan Muhamad, Moh Saleh, Andi Mascunra

“…The results showed, as follows: (1) The relationship between financiers and local fishermen in Lindu Lake is nothing more than borrowing business capital; (2) Fishermen's support for the arrangement of their settlement as a homestay, this is due to the large number of tourists at the festival but the benefits are not felt; (3) The integration model of fishing settlement space with ecological-based coastal tourism with consideration of the development of marine tourism in Lindu Lake is integrated between mountain and lake panoramas with customs into one unit.…”
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Adaptation and Hybridisation of Commons in Aït Oucheg Territory, High Atlas, Morocco by Charles Bonnin, Elouarti Ayoub, Bruno Romagny, Michel Vaillant, Geneviève Michon, Saïd Boujrouf, Mohammed Aderghal

“…In marginalised rural territories (mountains, oases, steppe, etc.), this infatuation for the associative phenomenon is in phase with two major factors : the partial disengagement of the State and a tendency towards the breakdown of collective action. …”
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Star Formation in the Lopsided Galaxy Arp 291 by Irina S. Proshina, Dmitriy V. Oparin

“…We have investigated the star formation process taking place in the lopsided galaxy Arp 291, based on narrowband images in the H α , [N ii ] λ 6583, and [O iii ] λ 5007 emission lines, obtained using the modern tunable photometer MaNGaL at the Caucasus Mountain Observatory. We have diagnosed 30 star-forming (SF) regions by means of the Baldwin–Phillips–Terlevich method. …”
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Des flots à contre-courant : des montagnes du Lesotho à la métropole sud-africaine by Yannick Rousselot

“…The aim of this article is to consider the mountains of Lesotho as suppliers of water to the Gauteng metropolitan area in South Africa. …”
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From repairing the damaged landscape to restoration project by Céline Granjou, Stéphanie Gaucherand, Elaine Chanteloup

“…At first, revegetation techniques were developed to fight soil erosion, but soon also became associated with the idea of “turning the mountain green again”. Now, 40 years later, revegetation is aimed at restoring both a natural ecosystem and a cultural landscape. …”
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Val d’Hérens (Switzerland): A history of Missed (tourist) Transitions by Marjolaine Gros-Balthazard, Caterina Franco, Anouk Bonnemains

“…The originality of this work lies in its focus on a range of unfulfilled tourism development projects in a mountain valley drawn up between 1900 and 2020. The study of the relationships between the (material, ideal and institutional) dimensions within the concept of territory and constitutive of the projectual processes makes it possible to reveal the explanatory factors of the tourist transitions, which did not happen but were “missed“. …”
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Research on Wind Load Calculation Based on Identical Guarantee Rate Method by Tao Ye, Ledong Zhu, Zhongxu Tan, Lanlan Li

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« Vouloir de la politique » by Isabelle Rivoal

“…Whereas heads of family relate to Walid Joumblatt, the lord (bek) of the Mountain, in an extremely codified way during traditional visits, Walid Joumblatt’s relationship with youths in his role as president of the PSP is marked by familiarity and complicity. …”
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Ski resorts in crisis and territorial construction in French Catalonia by Vincent Vlès

“…The efficiency of inter-municipal relations in regenerating or restructuring the economy of mountain tourist areas is well suited to an analysis in terms of governance. …”
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Stratégies contre le déclin des zones périphériques by Martin Boesch, Erich Renner, Dominik Siegrist

“…It no longer targets regional balance, or maintenance of regional occupation in decentralized areas thus preventing depopulation of mountain regions, but is focusing on promoting economic centres. …”
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Postfire Burnt-Wood Management Affects Plant Damage by Ungulate Herbivores by Jorge Castro

“…Two experimental plots of ca. 20 hectares were established at two elevations in a burnt area in a Mediterranean mountain (Sierra Nevada, Spain). Three replicates of three treatments differing in post-fire burnt wood management were established per plot: “no intervention” (NI, all trees remained standing), “partial cut plus lopping” (PCL, felling the trees, cutting the main branches, and leaving all the biomass in situ), and “salvage logging” (SL; removal of logs and elimination of woody debris). …”
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