Articles in this open issue’s MountainResearch section examine the shift from traditional to market-driven yak herding practices in Gatlang, Nepal; challenges in implementing UNESCO policies on science–society interaction in mountain biosphere reserves around the world; and the role of topography in socioeconomic development in the European Alps. In the MountainPlatform section, the Afromontane Research Unit presents the Mozambique Mountain Initiative, and the MountainMedia section offers a review of an ethnographic account of disappearing pastoralism in Bulgaria.

The issue is available online and open access:

https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development/volume-45/issue-4