Chapter 1. Introductory remarks ........................................................................................... Fausto O. Sarmiento
Part 1: The Pioneering Dimension
Chapter 2. .......................................................................................................Mountain Studies and Research in the Eighteenth Century: The Contributions of Horace Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt to the Study of MountainsPere Sunyer
Chapter 3. .......................................................................................................Mountain Development Adventure: The Hillary Model behind the Hillary Medal Seth Sicroff
Chapter 4. .......................................................................................................Historical and Contemporary Contributions of the "Climber-Scientist" to Mountain Geography Alton C. Byers
Part 2: The Human Dimension
Chapter 5. ........................................................................................................ Montology within Geopolitical and Cultural Appropriations: 'Mountain' as a Social Construct Fausto O. Sarmiento
Chapter 6. .......................................................................................................Human Diversity, Identities, and Indigeneity in Contrasting Mountain Landscapes Christoph Stadel and Hermann Kreutzmann
Chapter 7. .......................................................................................................Mountain Landscapes as "Lifescapes" Sustaining Traditional Biocultural Heritage and Supporting Resilience in the Asia-Pacific Region Jessica Brown, Masahito Yoshida and Nobuko Inaba
Chapter 8. ......................................................................................................Urbanization and the Verticality of Rural-Urban Linkages in Mountains Andreas Haller and Domenico Branca
Part 3: The Physical Dimension
Chapter 9. ......................................................................................................Trends of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Mountain RegionsAlexey Gunya and Lynn Resler
Chapter 10. .......................................................................................................Atmospheric Envelopes and Glacial RetreatKeniuchi Ueno and Bob Nakileza
Chapter 11. ......................................................................................................Mountain Landslides - An Overview of Common Types and Future ImpactsMarten Geertsema and Irasema Alcántara-Ayala
Part 4: The Spiritual Dimension
Chapter 12. ......................................................................................................The Spiritual and Cultural Importance of MountainsEdwin Bernbaum
Chapter 13. ......................................................................................................A Biocultural Ethic for Coinhabiting Mountainous Rivers Ricardo Rozzi
Chapter 14. ......................................................................................................High Altitude Archaeology and the Anthropology of Sacred Mountains: 25 Years of Explorations and Diseminations María Constanza Ceruti
Part 5: The Biogeographical Dimension
Chapter 15. .............................................
Prof. Dr. Fausto O. Sarmiento has been involved in major disciplinary and institutional change processes to promote sustainable development in mountain environments and in restructuring evaluation criteria used for landscape conservation in the Tropical Andes. 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).