Mountain ecosystems provide a wide range of essential services, such as clean water, food, and energy. They also play an important role in regulating the global climate. United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15.4 aims to conserve mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, to enhance their capacity to provide benefits which are essential for sustainable development. This includes ensuring the conservation of mountain forests, grasslands, wetlands, and glaciers.
Here you’ll find a curated selection of research articles, special issues, collections, books, and chapters, covering a range of critical topics connected to UN SDG 15.4.
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A Biocultural Ethic for Coinhabiting Mountainous RiversMontology Palimpsest | An Introduction to Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain RegionsClimate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Region |
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You can add impact and power to your SDG-related research when you publish it at Springer Nature, and alongside leading research (like the examples above). Research published OA at Springer Nature gets more exposure. For example, research published in fully OA Springer Nature journals are downloaded over 7,000 times on average (up to 5x more than competitors) and cited 7.39 times on average.
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