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Axel Borsdorf - Günter Köck
Editorial - Related projects recorded in the European Mountain Pool page 3
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s3
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Legal notice
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Andreas Bohner - Franz Starlinger - Petr Koutecky
Vegetation changes in an abandoned montane grassland, compared to changes in a habitat with low-intensity sheep grazing – a case study in Styria, Austria page 5
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s5
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Tiru Berihun Tessema - Michael Jungmeier - Michael Huber
The relocation of the village of Arkwasiye in the Simien Mountain National Park in Ethiopia: an intervention towards sustainable development? page 13
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s13
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Rodney Garrard - Thomas Kohler - Urs Wiesmann - Martin F. Price - Alton C. Byers - Ang Rita Sherp
Depicting community perspectives: repeat photography and participatory research as tools for assessing environmental services in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal page 21
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s21
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Josef Fanninger
The path towards setting up the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Salzburger Lungau and Kärntner Nockberge page 33
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s33
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Astrid Wallner
Thematic catalogue of research topics on Swiss parks page 37
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s37
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Julia Schauer - Magdalena Meikl - Ana Gimeno - Robert Schwarzenbacher
Larval monitoring of fire salamanders within a Sparkling Science Project page 41
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s41
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Gabriel Schwaderer
Mountain ranges along the European Green Belt in the Western Balkan deserve protection page 45
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s45
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Rodney Garrard - Thomas Kohler - Urs Wiesmann - Martin F. Price - Alton C. Byers - Ang Rita Sherpa
An ever-changing place: interpreting landscape change in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal; re-photographic survey and encounter page 49
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s49
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Valerie Braun
Book Review: Kupper, P. 2012. Wildnis schaffen - Eine transnationale Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks page 32
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s32
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Günter Köck
Book Review: Getzner,M. and M. Jungmeier, 2012, Innovative apporaches to manage protected areas page 56
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s56
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Günter Köck
Book Review: The publication series alpine space - man and environment - at the University of Innsbruck page 57
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s57
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Axel Borsdorf - Günter Köck
News: 5th Symposium of Research in Protected Areas at Hohe Tauern National Park 10 – 12 June 2013 page 60
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s60
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Axel Borsdorf - Günter Köck
News: Water in climate change - A background report of CIPRA and a multivison for the Alps: an original and unique audiovisual event page 61
doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s61
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