Our Mission - To nurture scholarly activities associated with geoecological research on rural landscapes (cf. farmscapes) of the Americas, by providing means to observe, dialogue, and explore various issues affecting neotropical mountains and to become a catalyst of geographical work towards sustainable and regenerative development, agrobiodiversity conservation, livelihood security and poverty alleviation. The NMC incubator of geoecological activities will seek to generate collaborative research networks, potential for training and development, dissemination and monitoring of environmental services of neotropical mountains. Our Projects ZUÑAC-Sangay Heritagescapes of the Andean Flanks (ESPOCH) ISMS: International Symposium of Mountain Studies (IGU) KAPAK ÑAN Nizac section through Chimborazo. (ESPOCH) AMALEG: Investigating Ecological Legacy of Amazonian Forests. (NSF to FIT) MTLGY: Book series on Montology with Springer-Nature/Switzerland. Volume 1: A Primer of Mountain Geographies. Volume 2: Mountain Lexicon: A Corpus of Montology and Innovation. Volume 3 Water in Mountainscapes: Converging Nature and Culture. VULPES: VULnerability of Populations in Extreme Scenarios (NSF-Belmont Forum to FIT) IPSI-EC: BioCultural Diversity and Microrefugia (Satoyama, NEBLF-GEF) IFF: Indigenous Foods and Fibers (Willson Center Research Cluster, prospective funding OIE/OVPR-IAF) SSIR: Sacred Sites and Indigenous Revival (LACSI Research Initiative) In the News MOUNTAINSCAPE IDENTITY AND BIOCULTURAL HERITAGE (GISCIENCE TV INTERVIEW IN SPANISH) MONTOLOGY AS THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE OF MOUNTAIN STUDIES (RESEARCH NOTE) APPROPRIATION OF RURALITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH TROPICAL MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES' CHANGING PATHWAYS (QUINCENARIO OPCIÓN IN SPANISH) AMENITY MIGRATION TO TRANSITIONAL FARMSCAPES AND INTERMEDIATE CITYSCAPES FOREST TRANSITIONS AMIDST GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: APPLIED MONTOLOGY (GUEST LECTURE AT EECP-UGA) CONNECTIVITY CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDSCAPES AND MINDSCAPES (FRANKLIN CHRONICLE) BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY HERITAGE AND INTANGIBLE CONSERVATION AS EXTERNALITIES (ALAI NOTE IN SPANISH) FOOD SECURITY AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN EQUITABLE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL PRODUCTION LANDSCAPES (LADERA SUR-INTERVIEW IN SPANISH) WATER STRESSED ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AND PÁRAMO FLUVIAL DISCONTENT (PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES) SHIFTING PARADIGMS OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES: INDIGENOUS FOODS AND FIBERS TRANSDISCIPLINARY SACRED NATURAL SITES CONSERVATION: RUINS REIFIED (A LIFE DEVOTED TO MOUNTAINS (VOLVÁMONOS VERDES-A PODCAST IN SPANISH) MONTOLOGY: ECHOING NEW FRONTIERS OF SENTIENT MOUNTAINSCAPES (GUEST LECTURE AT IRES-UBC) Related Courses GEOG 3290 Mountain Geography GEOG 4290/6290 Geography and Ethnoecology of Neotropical Mountains GEOG 4720/6720 Geographies of Latin America GEOG 8810 Seminar on Human-Environment Relations Contact Information Fausto Sarmiento fsarmien@uga.edu https://montology.franklinresearch.uga.edu/
