Data Platforms & Interactive Maps
- EJATLAS. Environmental Justice Atlas., Spain
Environmental Conflics - OCC! Occupy Climate Change. Atlas of the other world, Sweden
Grassroots initiatives, citizenship practices. (“OCC! explores how urban communities can respond to Loss and Damages by investigating new and insurgent citizenship practices and new types of knowledge). - OLCA. Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales, Chile
Environmental Conflics - OCMAL. Observatorio de conflictos mineros de América Latina, Chile
Environmental Conflics - DATALUTA. Banco de Dados da Luta pela Terra, Brazil/Argentina.
Land occupations, rural settlements, socio-territorial movements and land tenure structure. - Mapa de Conflictos Ambientales Mineros en Andalucía y Portugal, Spain/Portugal
Environmental Mining Conflicts - Environmental Injustice and Health database and map of Brazil (FIOCRUZ led by Dr Marcelo Firpo Porto), Brazil
Environmental conflicts focusing on health damages and impacts. - Observatory of Environmental conflicts in Minas Gerais., Brazil
Environmental conflicts. - Map of actors. Turism sector of Barcelona., Spain
Actors involved in a specific activity (Turism). - Map of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities living in Mountain Areas, Global
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities living in Mountain Areas - weADAPT, Global
Climate Change Adaptation - Ecoatlas, Global
map initiatives that help in building a social-ecological sustainable world - Terre de Liens, France
Sustainability of agricultural lands, exchange of knowledge, promotion of organic agriculture, preservation of lands - Global Mountain Explorer 2.0, USA
The Global Mountain Explorer provides visualization and query of the K1, K3 (mountains only or as mountain classes) and K2 (mountains only) global mountain datasets. - WIKIAlps database, France
The WIKIAlps database is a web application with a graphical user interface that helps users to easily search and access information on Alpine Space (AS) stakeholders and project outputs - Nature-Based Solutions Database, USA
Learn how outstanding local communities and indigenous peoples around the world are making possible the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through nature-based actions. - Interreg Alpine Space - AlpES, Austria
1. develop an Alpine ecosystem services concept 2. carry out a mapping and assessment of ecosystem services for the Alpine Space area including the testing in selected study regions across the Alpine Space 3. provide stakeholders with the results through an interactive web GIS and 4. ensure a multi-level and cross-sectoral transfer of AlpES results to a maximum number of stakeholders via a suite of innovative, tailored and transferable learning tools and targeted activities - GC - Geocomunes
Makes cartography (maps) of conflicts caused by the degradation, privatization and dispossession of common goods, as well as of the “infrastructure” projects that are built with the aim that capital continues to accumulate. - TransforMont, France
Offer a database on alternative initiatives supporting transition Give visibility to social innovation and its potential in mountain areas Facilitate the networking of social innovation actors Identify and support the development of new innovations Better understand the social innovations of our territories - REEF - Rural Empowerment and Entrepreneurial Forum, Lebanon
To build a mutual platform among all developmental actors of the rural areas in Lebanon. - COVID-19 Responses in informal settlements, Brazil
Share best practice solutions and COVID-19 response projects for slums and informal settlements - Mapa de Conflictos Ambientales Mineros en Andalucía y Portugal, Spain/Portugal
show the Environmental Conflicts Miners in Andalusia and Portugal - Explorer - by Mountain Legacy, Canada
It is a map-based tool designed to allow investigating the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) collection of photos (showing the changes in Canada's mountains) - UNCC Private Sector Initiative (PSI) database, Germany
"This online database of case studies has been developed under the Private Sector Initiative (PSI) of the Nairobi work programme, and features good practices and profitable climate change adaptation activities being undertaken by private companies (sometimes in partnership with NGOs or the public sector) from a wide range of regions and sectors." - Adaptation at Altitude, Switzerland
The Adaptation at Altitude programme is improving the availability and use of mountain observation data, facilitating science-policy dialogues, supporting a community of practice and knowledge exchange on adaptation solutions, and influencing policy processes. - CERDD - Centre Ressource du Developpement Durable, France
*Mobilize and encourage the commitment of all *Facilitate and equip the realization of sustainable development projects *Identify and stimulate innovations - Mapping of Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) initiatives, Italy
promote awareness of and build synergies among past, present and future projects on SSF being carried out in the field in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region - KARIANET - Knowledge Access in Rural Interconnected Areas Network, Lebanon
To mainstream Knowledge Management/Knowledge Sharing (KM/KS) on Local Food Systems (LFS) and give smallholder farmers, especially rural women and youth, access to information on best practices, funding opportunities, etc. and also enable rural and agricultural development practitioners across the MENA to improve the performance of projects across the region through enabling systems at the local, national and regional level that support smallholder farming, sustainable agricultural practices and local economic development. - CONDESAN - Consorio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Eccoregion Andina, Ecuador and Peru
conservation of mountain ecosystems and for the well-being of rural communities in the Andean region.
Networks, Alliances & Governance
- Mountain Partnership, Italy
Adresses sustainable mountain development by tapping diversity of ressources, knowledge and expertise - Nemor: Network for European Mountain Research, Europe
Advocate for European Mountain Research, Enable discussion of research priorities addressing mountain regions, Connect mountain networks, Coordinate activities - Alpine Convention, Austria/Italy
Create awareness and sustainble development through various projects. - EUROMONTANA - European Association of Mountain Areas, France
Promote living mountains, integrated and sustainable development and quality of life in mountain areas - CIPRA - Living in the Alps, Liechtenstein
Advocate lifestyles and economic systems that are mindful of nature and natural resources in the Alps
Research & Observation Initiatives
- Mountain Sentinels, USA
G1. Expand an international network of linked mountain biophysical & social science researchers and diverse stakeholders. G2. Explore & evaluate transdisciplinary modelling frameworks for mountains globally. G3. Promote international, transdisciplinary approaches linking science with policy & practice - Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), Switzerland
Promote basic and applied research to understand how drivers and processes of global change present challenges and opportunities in mountain social-ecological systems. - G.N.O.M.O. THE GLOBAL NETWORK OF MOUNTAIN OBSERVATORIES
"Teams of researchers, covering the range of pertinent disciplines, work together in a finite number of sites representative of the diversity of mountain regions around the world to develop their understanding of the current structure and function as well as the longer-term evolution, of mountain social-ecological systems using protocols that support comparative analysis, at a detail sufficient to support forecasts of likely outcome, given sufficiently defined boundary conditions, and in ways that engage a wide range of actors and contribute significantly to public and private decision-making."
Knowledge Hubs & Learning Platforms
- HimalDoc
Platform for Publications - Pastoralist Knowledge Hub, Asia/Africa
Knowledge, Network, Partners
Projects & Programs
- Collaborative Crop Research Program. McKnight Foundation, Andes/Africa
Accelerate local and regional food system transformation; Influence global and cross-national funding flows, policies and research norms to enable agroecological transformation - NextData, Italy
A national system for the retrieval, storage, access and diffusion of environmental and climate data from mountain and marine areas. - GLOBAL OBSERVATION RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN ALPINE ENVIRONMENTS, Austria
"building globally applicable indicators for comparing magnitudes and velocities of changes of different biodiversity components across the major terrestrial biomes and climate zones on Earth. " - Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN)
To understand the effects of global change on species’ distributions and biodiversity in mountainous areas
Organizations & Institutional Websites
- Canadian Mountain Network, Canada
To supports the resilience and health of Canada’s mountain peoples and places through partnerships based on Indigenous and Western ways of knowing that inform decision-making and action - ICIMOD, Hindu Kush Himalaya
mission: To enable sustainable and resilient mountain development for improved and equitable livelihoods through knowledge and regional cooperation - Integrated Mountain Initiative (IMI), India
Mainstream concerns of the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) and its people in the development dialogue of India. - ARCOS Network- Albertine Rift Conservation Society
ARCOS' overall goal is to enhance conservation of critical ecosystems and promote sustainable development in the Albertine Rift region, Africa Great Lakes region and African Mountains through collaborative actions between various partners.
