Sustainability, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 17(9), С. 4001 - 4001
Опубликована: Апрель 29, 2025
Mountain forestscapes are among the planet’s most vital socio-ecological systems, functioning as critical reservoirs of biodiversity, regulators climate, and essential sources water livelihood for surrounding downstream communities. However, these landscapes face intensifying threats from climate change, land-use transformation, resource extraction, unsustainable tourism, fragmented governance. While sustainable forest management has provided frameworks conservation, its focus on maintaining existing conditions is increasingly insufficient amid accelerating ecological social decline. This paper explores conceptual practical evolution sustainability to regeneration in mountain management, distinguishing between theoretical foundations each paradigm analyzing key drivers degradation across diverse biocultural regions. Methodologically, study employs a transdisciplinary qualitative design, integrating literature synthesis, comparative regional analysis, Indigenous local knowledge systems. A structured review 72 peer-reviewed ethnographic materials was conducted, combined with analysis (QCA) case studies Alps, Carpathians, Andes, Eastern Arc Mountains, Himalayas. The synthesizes regenerative strategies such connectivity restoration, agroecological landscape participatory watershed adaptive, polycentric Based insights, an integrated framework forestscape proposed, aligned global policy agendas including UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration, nature-based solutions (NbS), post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. By prioritizing renewal, cultural continuity, community agency, this work contributes transformative, place-based approaches that restore functionality, resilience, integrity landscapes.
Язык: Английский