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Montology along Geopolitical and Cultural Appropriations: “Mountain” as a Social Construct

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A novel understanding of mountain science is afforded with an innovative approach of the convergent, transdisciplinary mountain science. Unlike past understandings of the physical environment influenced by altitude and harsh meteorological conditions, montological approaches incorporate social dimensions to understand mountains as socioecological production landscapes. The crosscutting of disciplinary silos and the integrative nature of noetics and consilience help to create a modern framework with decolonial scholarship to grapple with challenging realities of the binaries of globalization, such as North-South, rich-poor, urban-rural, and other dualism that frame sustainable and regenerative development.

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Sarmiento, F.O. (2022). Montology along Geopolitical and Cultural Appropriations: “Mountain” as a Social Construct. In: Sarmiento, F.O. (eds) Montology Palimpsest. Montology, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13298-8_5

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