同行评议山地期刊简史:与山地可持续发展相关的知识平台是如何出现的

IF 0.7 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q4 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
A. Zimmermann, S. W. V. Dach, Sarah-lan Mathez-Stiefel, D. Molden, Thomas Breu
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This concern with both environmental and developmental issues, along with a recognition of the need to make research relevant to society, has been a key characteristic of mountain journals, of which the following are the main indexed ones published in English: Journal of Alpine Research / Revue de géographie alpine (JAR-RGA); Mountain Research and Development (MRD); Journal of Mountain Science (JMS); and the now ten-year-old eco.mont. Here is their story in a nutshell. Journal of Alpine Research / Revue de géographie alpine (JAR-RGA) Published since its inception by the Institut de Géographie Alpine at the University of Grenoble, France, JAR-RGA became a bilingual journal in 2004. The focus remained the Alpine Arc in Europe until 2012, with occasional articles on other mountain regions worldwide included in focus issues to enable a comparative perspective on mountain issues. On the occasion of the journal’s one-hundredth anniversary in 2013, JAR-RGA’s editors decided to go open access and make English the first language of articles. They also decided to publish translations into other European Alpine languages – French, German, Italian, and Spanish – with a view to “opening French-language thinking to the world even more” (JAR-RGA 2018). Authors’ affiliations are now thoroughly international and the quarterly issues cover a remarkable variety of topics and concerns, often in thematic issues. Mountain Research and Development (MRD) In the early 1970s, a large group of scientists from several countries involved in UNESCO’s innovative interdisciplinary Man and the Biosphere program – most of them geographers as well – joined efforts to organize international conferences focusing on environmental concerns in mountains that are of significance also to lowland communities (Ives 1981). The focus on mountains, highland-lowland interactions, and development in mountains thus became a worldwide scientific concern in the context of the nascent global sustainable development debate. MRD emerged from this international research collaboration with a development concern in 1981. MRD’s founding editor Jack Ives declared: “The challenge to influence mountain management by urging, and providing, a sound scientific base for decision making lies at the heart of our purpose – to seek a better balance between mountain environments, human welfare, and development of resources” (Ives 1981, p. 4). From the beginning, MRD was distributed free of charge in developing countries (Ives 1990). Mountain scientists’ development concerns also translated into a joint effort with development and policy actors to ensure that Chapter 13 was included in Agenda 21 by 1992 (Mathieu 2011; Messerli 2012; Price 2015). To address salient societal issues, in 2000 MRD launched a new section presenting transformation knowledge, with articles targeting a much broader audience including decisionand policy-makers. It was later enhanced by a double-blind peer review process – pioneering what is now being internationally called for (Future Earth 2014): transformation knowledge as key for sustainable development. The established academic section offering mainly systems knowledge also now at85 Zimmermann et al . tracted and supported more authors from the global South; and as of 2009, MRD went open access, as a means of making scientific knowledge and development debates entirely accessible to the South. In 2013, then-editors-in-chief Hans Hurni (CDE, University of Bern) and David Molden (ICIMOD) launched a third peer-reviewed section presenting target knowledge (Hurni et al. 2013). Thus, the journal now offered all three dimensions of knowledge for sustainable mountain development. eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management The need for linking science and practice is also what drove the launching in 2008 of eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management, published open access twice a year. Representing a vibrant European scientific community concerned with the future of mountains, founding editors Axel Borsdorf (University of Innsbruck) and Günter Köck (Austrian Academy of Sciences) aimed to offer “a platform specifically for scientists and practitioners working in and on protected mountain areas in Europe and overseas”, calling for papers from both the academic and practice communities. eco. mont has succeeded in publishing an impressively large number of articles despite the comparatively narrow definition of its scope – arguably a sign of the importance of mountains in efforts to achieve SDG 15 of the 2030 Agenda, i. e. to conserve our natural environment while offering new development options to humanity. This mountain journal thus also reveals a strong commitment to disseminating knowledge for sustainable mountain development, and to using adequate modes of enhancing this knowledge through rigorous review that takes into account interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches (Borsdorf & Köck 2008). Journal of Mountain Science (JMS) Meanwhile, on the other side of the earth, in China, research on mountain environments and mountain development had obviously also become a strong concern. In 2004, JMS was launched by the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the explicit aim of enhancing international academic exchange on mountain research and integrating Chinese research into the global debate. The journal is not open access but subscriptions are supported in developing countries by the United Nations University. The journal started as a quarterly from 2004 until 2010, then published six issues a year until 2015, and since then has been appearing as a monthly journal. Its objective to publish research and technical papers on mountain environment, mountain ecology, mountain hazards, mountain resources, and mountain development, with a clear predominance of disciplinary papers, reveals a different understanding of science for sustainable development, with less emphasis on transdisciplinarity and transformative science than MRD and eco.mont. It is thus obvious that sustainable mountain development matters to scientists worldwide. Clearly, English has become the lingua franca of their work – whether for better or for worse is not something to be debated here. This led several national and regional mountain research communities to decide to publish their work in English. 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The focus on mountains, highland-lowland interactions, and development in mountains thus became a worldwide scientific concern in the context of the nascent global sustainable development debate. MRD emerged from this international research collaboration with a development concern in 1981. MRD’s founding editor Jack Ives declared: “The challenge to influence mountain management by urging, and providing, a sound scientific base for decision making lies at the heart of our purpose – to seek a better balance between mountain environments, human welfare, and development of resources” (Ives 1981, p. 4). From the beginning, MRD was distributed free of charge in developing countries (Ives 1990). Mountain scientists’ development concerns also translated into a joint effort with development and policy actors to ensure that Chapter 13 was included in Agenda 21 by 1992 (Mathieu 2011; Messerli 2012; Price 2015). To address salient societal issues, in 2000 MRD launched a new section presenting transformation knowledge, with articles targeting a much broader audience including decisionand policy-makers. It was later enhanced by a double-blind peer review process – pioneering what is now being internationally called for (Future Earth 2014): transformation knowledge as key for sustainable development. The established academic section offering mainly systems knowledge also now at85 Zimmermann et al . tracted and supported more authors from the global South; and as of 2009, MRD went open access, as a means of making scientific knowledge and development debates entirely accessible to the South. In 2013, then-editors-in-chief Hans Hurni (CDE, University of Bern) and David Molden (ICIMOD) launched a third peer-reviewed section presenting target knowledge (Hurni et al. 2013). Thus, the journal now offered all three dimensions of knowledge for sustainable mountain development. eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management The need for linking science and practice is also what drove the launching in 2008 of eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management, published open access twice a year. Representing a vibrant European scientific community concerned with the future of mountains, founding editors Axel Borsdorf (University of Innsbruck) and Günter Köck (Austrian Academy of Sciences) aimed to offer “a platform specifically for scientists and practitioners working in and on protected mountain areas in Europe and overseas”, calling for papers from both the academic and practice communities. eco. mont has succeeded in publishing an impressively large number of articles despite the comparatively narrow definition of its scope – arguably a sign of the importance of mountains in efforts to achieve SDG 15 of the 2030 Agenda, i. e. to conserve our natural environment while offering new development options to humanity. 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摘要

吸引并支持更多来自南半球的作者;2009年,MRD开放获取,作为一种让科学知识和发展辩论完全进入南方的手段。2013年,当时的主编Hans Hurni (CDE,伯尔尼大学)和David Molden (ICIMOD)推出了第三个同行评议部分,展示目标知识(Hurni et al. 2013)。因此,该杂志现在提供了可持续山区发展的所有三个方面的知识。生态。将科学与实践联系起来的需要也是推动2008年启动生态科学研究与管理项目的原因。《山区保护区研究与管理》杂志,每年出版两次。该期刊的创始编辑Axel Borsdorf(因斯布鲁克大学)和g<s:1> nter Köck(奥地利科学院)代表了一个关注山区未来的充满活力的欧洲科学界,旨在提供“一个专门为在欧洲和海外受保护山区工作的科学家和实践者提供的平台”,呼吁来自学术和实践团体的论文。生态。《蒙特》成功地发表了数量可观的文章,尽管其范围的定义相对狭窄——可以说,这表明山脉在实现《2030年议程》可持续发展目标15(即保护自然环境,同时为人类提供新的发展选择)的努力中具有重要意义。因此,这份山地期刊也显示了对传播可持续山地发展知识的坚定承诺,并通过考虑跨学科和跨学科方法的严格审查,使用适当的模式来增强这一知识(Borsdorf & Köck 2008)。与此同时,在地球的另一边,在中国,对山地环境和山地开发的研究显然也受到了人们的强烈关注。2004年,中国科学院山地灾害与环境研究所成立了JMS,旨在加强山地研究的国际学术交流,使中国的山地研究融入全球辩论。该杂志不开放获取,但在发展中国家由联合国大学支持订阅。该杂志从2004年到2010年以季刊的形式开始,到2015年每年出版6期,此后以月刊的形式出版。它的目标是发表关于山地环境、山地生态、山地灾害、山地资源和山地发展的研究和技术论文,以学科论文为明显优势,揭示了对可持续发展科学的不同理解,比MRD和eco.mont更少强调跨学科和变革科学。因此,很明显,可持续的山区发展对全世界的科学家都很重要。很明显,英语已经成为他们工作的通用语言——不管是好是坏,这都不是这里要讨论的问题。这使得一些国家和地区的山地研究团体决定用英语发表他们的研究成果。最近的例子是俄罗斯期刊《山区可持续发展》,由北高加索矿业和冶金研究所(国立技术大学)于2009年作为季刊发行:它现在正在寻找方法,将俄语的关键文章提供给讲英语的读者,同时也为其俄罗斯科学读者翻译来自MRD的精选文章。最后要说明的是,除了查阅山地期刊(表1)外,寻找与山地和山地发展相关工作的读者肯定也会在学科期刊上找到明确或不明确地与山地有关的文章(Körner 2009;Sarmiento & Butler 2011)。这些期刊还为有关山区特有挑战和动态的辩论提供了信息。那么山地期刊的优势是什么呢?他们汇集了来自不同学科的知识,以加强辩论和关于山区特有挑战的知识,并将不同的观点整合在一起。这种知识的整合和背景化对于向可持续发展转变至关重要。
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A brief history of peer-reviewed mountain journals: how platforms for knowledge relevant to sustainable mountain development emerged
Dedicated academic mountain journals emerged as of the beginning of the 20th century from a need to collect very diverse work focusing on mountains as a fascinating and challenging environment as well as a place of unique livelihood systems. We present a brief overview of the four peer-reviewed, indexed journals that exist today for mountain scholarship and show how strongly connected they are with an understanding of science linked to sustainable development. This specificity is confirmed by the fact that – as of the 1970s – a number of leading mountain scholars from around the world started engaging not only in research but also in policy action to ensure that mountains and mountain development are taken into account in key global sustainable development documents. What has been the added value of mountain journals and what was the motivation for launching them? On the occasion of eco.mont’s tenth anniversary, the editors of the journal Mountain Research and Development were asked to tell the story of mountain journals. The story starts with the Revue de géographie alpine, launched by the French geographer Raoul Blanchard in 1913 with the double aim of bringing together work on the European Alps (and on the French Alps in particular) and making it accessible to a broader scientific public (RGA 1913). Publication of mountain research in specifically dedicated journals thus began as a European geographer’s concern with a fascinating and often challenging environment in which human communities had developed well-adapted and often unique livelihood systems and cultures. This concern with both environmental and developmental issues, along with a recognition of the need to make research relevant to society, has been a key characteristic of mountain journals, of which the following are the main indexed ones published in English: Journal of Alpine Research / Revue de géographie alpine (JAR-RGA); Mountain Research and Development (MRD); Journal of Mountain Science (JMS); and the now ten-year-old eco.mont. Here is their story in a nutshell. Journal of Alpine Research / Revue de géographie alpine (JAR-RGA) Published since its inception by the Institut de Géographie Alpine at the University of Grenoble, France, JAR-RGA became a bilingual journal in 2004. The focus remained the Alpine Arc in Europe until 2012, with occasional articles on other mountain regions worldwide included in focus issues to enable a comparative perspective on mountain issues. On the occasion of the journal’s one-hundredth anniversary in 2013, JAR-RGA’s editors decided to go open access and make English the first language of articles. They also decided to publish translations into other European Alpine languages – French, German, Italian, and Spanish – with a view to “opening French-language thinking to the world even more” (JAR-RGA 2018). Authors’ affiliations are now thoroughly international and the quarterly issues cover a remarkable variety of topics and concerns, often in thematic issues. Mountain Research and Development (MRD) In the early 1970s, a large group of scientists from several countries involved in UNESCO’s innovative interdisciplinary Man and the Biosphere program – most of them geographers as well – joined efforts to organize international conferences focusing on environmental concerns in mountains that are of significance also to lowland communities (Ives 1981). The focus on mountains, highland-lowland interactions, and development in mountains thus became a worldwide scientific concern in the context of the nascent global sustainable development debate. MRD emerged from this international research collaboration with a development concern in 1981. MRD’s founding editor Jack Ives declared: “The challenge to influence mountain management by urging, and providing, a sound scientific base for decision making lies at the heart of our purpose – to seek a better balance between mountain environments, human welfare, and development of resources” (Ives 1981, p. 4). From the beginning, MRD was distributed free of charge in developing countries (Ives 1990). Mountain scientists’ development concerns also translated into a joint effort with development and policy actors to ensure that Chapter 13 was included in Agenda 21 by 1992 (Mathieu 2011; Messerli 2012; Price 2015). To address salient societal issues, in 2000 MRD launched a new section presenting transformation knowledge, with articles targeting a much broader audience including decisionand policy-makers. It was later enhanced by a double-blind peer review process – pioneering what is now being internationally called for (Future Earth 2014): transformation knowledge as key for sustainable development. The established academic section offering mainly systems knowledge also now at85 Zimmermann et al . tracted and supported more authors from the global South; and as of 2009, MRD went open access, as a means of making scientific knowledge and development debates entirely accessible to the South. In 2013, then-editors-in-chief Hans Hurni (CDE, University of Bern) and David Molden (ICIMOD) launched a third peer-reviewed section presenting target knowledge (Hurni et al. 2013). Thus, the journal now offered all three dimensions of knowledge for sustainable mountain development. eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management The need for linking science and practice is also what drove the launching in 2008 of eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management, published open access twice a year. Representing a vibrant European scientific community concerned with the future of mountains, founding editors Axel Borsdorf (University of Innsbruck) and Günter Köck (Austrian Academy of Sciences) aimed to offer “a platform specifically for scientists and practitioners working in and on protected mountain areas in Europe and overseas”, calling for papers from both the academic and practice communities. eco. mont has succeeded in publishing an impressively large number of articles despite the comparatively narrow definition of its scope – arguably a sign of the importance of mountains in efforts to achieve SDG 15 of the 2030 Agenda, i. e. to conserve our natural environment while offering new development options to humanity. This mountain journal thus also reveals a strong commitment to disseminating knowledge for sustainable mountain development, and to using adequate modes of enhancing this knowledge through rigorous review that takes into account interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches (Borsdorf & Köck 2008). Journal of Mountain Science (JMS) Meanwhile, on the other side of the earth, in China, research on mountain environments and mountain development had obviously also become a strong concern. In 2004, JMS was launched by the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the explicit aim of enhancing international academic exchange on mountain research and integrating Chinese research into the global debate. The journal is not open access but subscriptions are supported in developing countries by the United Nations University. The journal started as a quarterly from 2004 until 2010, then published six issues a year until 2015, and since then has been appearing as a monthly journal. Its objective to publish research and technical papers on mountain environment, mountain ecology, mountain hazards, mountain resources, and mountain development, with a clear predominance of disciplinary papers, reveals a different understanding of science for sustainable development, with less emphasis on transdisciplinarity and transformative science than MRD and eco.mont. It is thus obvious that sustainable mountain development matters to scientists worldwide. Clearly, English has become the lingua franca of their work – whether for better or for worse is not something to be debated here. This led several national and regional mountain research communities to decide to publish their work in English. The most recent case is that of the Russian journal Sustainable Development in Mountain Territories, launched by the North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (State Technological University) as a quarterly in 2009: it is now seeking ways of making key articles in Russian become available to an English-speaking audience, while also translating selected articles from MRD for its Russian scientific readership. As a final note, in addition to consulting mountain journals (Table 1), readers looking for work relevant to mountains and mountain development will certainly also find articles in disciplinary journals explicitly or not explicitly devoted to mountains (Körner 2009; Sarmiento & Butler 2011). These journals have also been informing debates about mountain-specific challenges and dynamics. So what is the advantage of specific mountain journals? They bring together knowledge from different disciplines to strengthen the debate and the knowledge on mountain-specific challenges, also integrating the different views in one place. This integration and contextualization of knowledge is crucial for transformation towards sustainable development.
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Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research
Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION-ECOLOGY
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期刊介绍: eco.mont offers a platform specifically for scientists and practitioners working in and on protected mountain areas in Europe and overseas.Target audiences of the journal are scientists from all related disciplines, managers of protected areas and an interested public including practitioners, visitors, teachers, etc.
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