Mountain research

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Conger Range, mountain range of the Arctic Cordillera in Canada
The Alpamayo in the central Peruvian Andes
Alpine pasture farming in South Tyrol
Grenoble in the French Alps
Ushuaia on the edge of the Argentine Andes

As Mountain Research , outdated Orologie , the exploration of the mountains of the earth's surface called. It examines mountain regions both globally and in terms of regularities ( typological or nomothetic ), as well as on a regional scale with the aim of a synthetic- integrative perspective ( idiographical ). Mountain research is carried out in the natural sciences , the humanities and social sciences and therefore combines a wide variety of disciplines and thus represents an interdisciplinary field of research.

Disciplines

Among other things, traditionally participate

As an applied research direction, it serves, among other things, the sustainable development of the mountain environment (e.g. settlement , transport , economy , environment ). In relation to the exploration of the high mountains in the narrower sense, one also speaks of high mountain research .

See also

Comparable research approaches

literature

  • Axel Borsdorf , Valerie Braun, Georg Grabherr , Brigitte Scott & Johann Stötter (Eds.) 2010: Challenges for Mountain Regions . Tackling Complexity. Böhlau publishing house . Vienna ISBN 978-3-205-78652-8 .
  • Axel Borsdorf & Georg Grabherr: Internationale Gebirgsforschung , 2007, Vienna ISBN 3-7001-3837-7 .
  • Jack D. Ives & Bruno Messerli 2001: Perspectives for Future Mountain Research and Mountain Development , in: Geographische Rundschau, Issue 12, 4-7.
  • Jon Mathieu 2009: From Haller to Humboldt - the beginnings of global mountain research , in: Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern, Volume 66, 95-104.
  • Jörg Stadelbauer 1992: Geo-ecological mountain research as applied environmental research , in: Erdkunde, Heft 46, 290–297.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DUDEN online
  2. ↑ Geographical Review
  3. ^ Announcements from the Natural Research Society in Bern
  4. ↑ geography .

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