Mountain Productive Landscapes in the Socio-Ecological Transition

Mountain areas have been and still are very relevant to industrial production both regionally and globally. The process of industrialisation of the mountains varied greatly in time and space, from the early hydropower-based exploitation of the European Alps (Dalmasso 2007, Gebhardt 1990) in the late nineteenth century to the most recent developments in mountain regions of the Global South (Perlik 2019). Due to abundant natural resources, mountain areas usually host intensive and invasive ind...