Mountain Lexicon: A Corpus of Montology and Innovation

Prof. Dr. Fausto O. Sarmiento directs the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory at the Department of Geography of the University of Georgia. His research straddles critical biogeography and landscape ecology of mountains for biocultural diversity conservation. He was Regional Editor for Latin America for the journal Mountain Research and Development, and is Editorial Board member of Pirineos, the Journal of Mountain Ecology, the Journal of Mountain Science, the Journal of High Andean Research and the Annals of the AAG. He serves in advisory boards of global mountain organizations and represented the International Human Dimension Program of Global Environmental Change to the Science Board of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI). He was chair of the Mountain Geography Specialty Group (2002-3 and 2014-5) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), is chair of the International Geographical Union's Commission on Mountain Studies (IGU), and former president of the Andean Mountains Association (AMA). Currently, he is deputy Vice Chair (Capacity Building) of the Mountain Biome of the World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA), member of the Board of the Satoyama Initiative of the United Nations University (UNU), member of the board of the Earth Ethics Institute (EEI) and member of the Protected Landscapes Task Force in the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

Prof. Dr. Alexey Gunya runs the center of mountain research at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research lies in the field of geography of mountain regions, interaction between development and conflicts, and landscape dynamic. He has strong regional expertise in the Caucasus and Central Asia. He is the head of the Mountain Group MAB-6 /Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, the Vice Chair of the International Geographical Union's Commission on Mountain Studies (IGU), member of the Science Leadership Council of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) (2016-2019), continues to serve as a member of the MRI Mountain Governance Working Group, member of the Science and Knowledge Advisory Committee of the Mountain Partnership. He was Editor for the journal Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories (2014-2022) and is Editorial Board member of the Journal of Mountain Science.

教授法烏斯托·O·薩米恩托（Prof. Dr. Fausto O. Sarmiento）負責喬治亞大學地理系的熱帶山地合作實驗室。他的研究跨越了關鍵的生物地理學和山地景觀生態學，旨在保護生物文化多樣性。他曾擔任期刊《Mountain Research and Development》的拉丁美洲區域編輯，並且是《Pirineos, the Journal of Mountain Ecology》、《Mountain Science》、《High Andean Research》和《Annals of the AAG》的編輯委員會成員。他在全球山地組織的諮詢委員會中任職，並代表國際人類維度全球環境變化計畫參加山地研究倡議（MRI）的科學委員會。他曾擔任美國地理學會（AAG）山地地理專業小組的主席（2002-2003年及2014-2015年），目前是國際地理聯合會（IGU）山地研究委員會的主席，以及安第斯山脈協會（AMA）的前任會長。目前，他是世界保護區委員會（WCPA）山地生物群落的副主席（能力建設），聯合國大學（UNU）里山倡議的董事會成員，地球倫理研究所（EEI）的董事會成員，以及世界自然保護聯盟（IUCN）保護景觀工作小組的成員。

教授阿列克謝·古尼亞（Prof. Dr. Alexey Gunya）負責俄羅斯科學院地理研究所的山地研究中心。他的研究領域包括山地區域的地理學、發展與衝突之間的互動以及景觀動態。他在高加索和中亞地區擁有豐富的專業知識。他是俄羅斯科學院地理研究所的山地小組MAB-6的負責人，國際地理聯合會（IGU）山地研究委員會的副主席，山地研究倡議（MRI）科學領導委員會的成員（2016-2019年），並持續擔任MRI山地治理工作組的成員，以及山地夥伴關係的科學與知識諮詢委員會成員。他曾擔任期刊《Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories》的編輯（2014-2022年），並且是《Mountain Science》的編輯委員會成員。