Mountain Lexicon

Prof. Dr. Fausto O. Sarmiento directs the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory at the Department of Geography of the University of Georgia. His research straddles critical biogeography and landscape ecology of mountains for biocultural diversity conservation. He was Regional Editor for Latin America for the journal Mountain Research and Development, and is Editorial Board member of Pirineos, the Journal of Mountain Ecology, the Journal of Mountain Science, the Journal of High Andean Research and the Annals of the AAG. He serves in advisory boards of global mountain organizations and represented the International Human Dimension Program of Global Environmental Change to the Science Board of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI). He was chair of the Mountain Geography Specialty Group (2002-3 and 2014-5) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), is chair of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Mountain Studies (IGU), and former president of the Andean Mountains Association (AMA). Currently, he is deputy Vice Chair (Capacity Building) of the Mountain Biome of the World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA), member of the Board of the Satoyama Initiative of the United Nations University (UNU), member of the board of the Earth Ethics Institute (EEI) and member of the Protected Landscapes Task Force in the World Conservation Union (IUCN).Prof. Dr. Alexey Gunya runs the center of mountain research at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research lies in the field of geography of mountain regions, interaction between development and conflicts, and landscape dynamic. He has strong regional expertise in the Caucasus and Central Asia. He is the head of the Mountain Group MAB-6 /Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, the Vice Chair of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Mountain Studies (IGU), member of the Science Leadership Council of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) (2016-2019), continues to serve as a member of the MRI Mountain Governance Working Group, member of the Science and Knowledge Advisory Committee of the Mountain Partnership. He was Editor for the journal Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories (2014-2022) and is Editorial Board member of the Journal of Mountain Science.

• Foreword.- Geopoetic dawn.- Chapter 1 An introductory cautionary note.- Part 1 Mountain Epistemologies.- Chapter 2 Mountain studies.- Chapter 3 The Mountains through power, organization, and re-identification.- Chapter 4 Decolonizing mountain studies.- Chapter 5 Satoyama.- Chapter 6 Mountain landscape epistemology.- Part 2 Mountain Ontologies.- Chapter 7 Mountain ontologies: the challenge of universality and diversity.- Chapter 8 Ontology of mountains: Mt. Chimburasu and the social reproduction of the Puruwa ethnic heritage in the Ecuadorian Andes.- Chapter 9 The sacred identity of Mountains.- Chapter 10 Human mountainscapes: Changing identities in space and time.- Part 3 Mountain Onomastics.- Chapter 11 Named and gendered mountains.- Chapter 12 Typological dynamics in place naming of mountain features.- Chapter 13 What is a mountain? What is a peak?.- Chapter 14 Mountain plowed and terraced: alchemy of agriculture in the Chanchán basin.- Chapter 15 Mountain place name identities: Multi-facety and fluidity.- Chapter 16 Landslide disaster risk: Refreshing notions and terminology in the context of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.- Part 4 Mountain Semiotics.- Chapter 17 Mountain Craftscapes.- Chapter 18 Mountain Farmscapes.- Chapter 19 Mountain Cityscapes.- Chapter 20 Mountain Riskscapes: incorporating complex realities of dynamic social ecological systems into disaster risk reduction.- Chapter 21 Mountain Artscapes as clues of decolonial interpretation.- Chapter 22 Mountain Touristcapes.- Part 5. Mountain disciplinary themes.- Chapter 23 Mountain Governance.- Chapter 24 Highlands, Midlands, Lowlands: Spatial explicit models of vertically differentiated areas.- Chapter 25 Mountains as water towers.- Chapter 26 High altitude archaeology.- Chapter 27 Gradients in mountain ecosystems.- Chapter 28 Earth ethics and montology.- Chapter 29 Mountain transboundary cooperation / networks.- Chapter 30 You are my Mountain, I am your Community: Rebuilding nature-culture connectivity in Taiwan’s Lishan areas.- Part 6 Final Remarks.- Chapter 31 Toward convergence and consilience in mountain science and study: Montology innovation to understand sentient mountainscapes.- Geopoetic dusk coda.