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eco.mont vol.13 - special issue 2021
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![]() Valerie Braun is managing editor of eco.mont and project manager of several projects at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research Martin Coy is Professor of Applied Geography and Sustainability Studies at the Institute of Geography at Innsbruck University Günter Köck is director of the national research programmes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW Arne Arnberger |
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ISSN 2073-106X Print Edition
Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management 13/special issue
11/2021 online edition Die print-Edition erscheint in der innsbruck university press The journal "eco.mont"; – Journal of protected mountain areas research and management – was published for the first time in June 2009. The journal was founded as a joint initiative of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas (ALPARC), the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the University of Innsbruck. The journal aims to highlight research on and management issues in protected areas in the Alps without excluding other protected mountain areas in Europe or overseas. Its target audiences are scientists from all related disciplines, managers of protected areas and interested individuals including practitioners, visitors, teachers, etc. The journal presents peer-reviewed articles in English by authors who research protected mountain areas and management issues within these areas. It's published twice a year as a collaboration of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press – responsible for the e-version – and Innsbruck University Press – responsible for the print version. |
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Eco.mont Vol. 13 special issue 2021, pp. 102-107, 2021/11/23
Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management
Biosphere Reserves face huge challenges worldwide, especially those located in metropolitan areas such as La Campana-Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve in central Chile. As well as direct threats, such as urban sprawl and wildfires, such reserves face a less evident threat in the form of weak community engagement and awareness of the value, opportunities and challenges that the name biosphere reserve offers. Since 2015, environmental conflicts have intensified in this area of Chile, and counter-movements towards re-territorialization have arisen under the slogan “We are biosphere reserve”. This implies a deep understanding of the imbrications of the lives of humans and more-than-humans in a common territory which face common challenges with regard to the preservation of life and regenerative actions and pathways. In Chile, this local social / political / spiritual movement now converges with a national movement towards recovering sovereignty over common goods through a new Constitution. In this article, we describe a fruitful academia-community dialogue of knowledges created through a series of open-access courses, collaborative mapping, and artistic initiatives developed by citizens, such as textile-making and handcrafts using natural pigments. All of these initiatives come together within the framework of very local geopolitical actions for the preservation of the biocultural landscapes found within the biosphere reserve. We discuss these initiatives as forms of biocultural resistance and re-existence.
Keywords: dialogue of knowledges, creative geographies, GeoHumanities, biocultural landscapes