摘要：This Special Feature on sustainable land-use practices in European mountain regions presents results from theinter- and transdisciplinary research project MOUNTLAND. The goal was to investigate the sensitivity of the provision ofecosystem services to both climatic and land-use changes and to suggest alternative policies and governance structures formitigating the impact of such changes and enhancing sustainable management practices in mountain regions. The individualarticles provide: (1) new scientific findings regarding the impacts of climate and land-use changes on ecosystem processes inthree sensitive mountain regions of Switzerland; (2) an assessment of the feedback effects arising from changing socioeconomicand political conditions, land use, and adaptation to climate change, using modeling techniques and transdisciplinary stakeholderinteractions; and (3) suggestions for alternative policy solutions to ensure sustainable land use in mountain regions. In oursynthesis of the project, we provide insights from the ecological, socioeconomic, and political sciences in the context of human-environment interactions in mountain regions. The innovation of this Special Feature lies in the fact that all articles present trulyinter- or transdisciplinary research, ranging from natural sciences to economics and political sciences, based on an overarchingset of unifying research questions
