Website Node: neslihandal@mehmetakif.edu.tr
Welcome to the IGU Commission of Mountain Studies (CMS)
The IGU Commission of Mountain Studies (IGU-CMS) builds upon more than five decades of scholarly collaboration within the International Geographical Union dedicated to the study of mountains.
Its origins trace back to the Commission on High-Altitude Geoecology (1968–1976), which laid the foundations for scientific inquiry into mountain environments. In the 1990s, reflecting a growing concern for sustainability, the focus evolved into Mountain Geoecology and Sustainable Development. Later, in the 2010s, the commission became the Commission on Mountain Responses to Climate Change, emphasizing global environmental change and adaptation.
Today, as the Commission of Mountain Studies, it embraces a broad, integrative approach to exploring socioecological systems, addressing the complex interactions between people and mountain environments at local, regional, and global scales.
Through its activities, IGU-CMS fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, promotes dialogue between different scientific traditions, and strengthens geography’s role in advancing sustainable mountain development.
OBJECTIVES
To bring together the IGU community working in mountain areas to promote mountain research, and disseminate and exchange knowledge and experience between researchers from different countries and scientific schools in the field of mountain geography research. Priority pillars are the strengthening of the role of geography as cross-cutting transdisciplinary research and the scholarly exchange of knowledge between different regions of the world.
COOPERATIVE MISSION
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Closely interacting with interdisciplinary foci, developing geographic tools and promoting their use in transdisciplinary research;
Promoting a more balanced study of the world's mountain socioecological systems;
Informing other members about their work via networking;
Establishing scholarly exchanges to allow for active recruitment of more geographers into the discipline of mountain geography;
Contributing to sharing wisdom and transfer of knowledge among mountain scholars of different academic backgrounds and methodological affiliations;
Enhancing opportunities for global engagement in active scientific networks of North-North, North-South, and South-South cooperation.
Advising public and private groups on the advances of Montology as a way to integrate the geographic sciences with the humanities and the arts.
Provide opportunities for young researchers and career training options for more young faculty and seasoned colleagues.
