After 17 years as Editor-in-Chief of MRD, the 5 last of which together with Dr David Molden, Director General of the InternationalCentre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), I decided to step down at the end of 2016 and hand over the task to Prof. Dr.Thomas Breu, Director of the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern since 2013 and Executive Director ofthe International Graduate School IGS North-South. It has been a great pleasure for me to see the journal thrive and flourish during mytime as an Editor-in-Chief of MRD. For me personally, a big change came in January 2016, when I retired from the University of Bern atthe age of 65, a particularity of Swiss bureaucracy. I have kept some former and assumed some new assignments at the international level;but it seemed essential, both to myself and to the team, to ensure that MRD’s editorial team in Bern should continue to have an Editor-inChiefnext door, and we were very lucky that Thomas Breu signaled his interest and willingness to serve in this function.Thomas Breu has a long track record of research for sustainable development in natural resource management and governance of social–ecological systems in Southeast Asia, East Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Central Asia, often with a focus on mountainous areas; he hasalso published on spatial analysis of global change processes—including large-scale land acquisitions—and has coordinated a number ofresearch projects and long-term programs based on partnerships between the global North and South. With this expertise and his profoundunderstanding of policy and development processes, he is ideally suited to further strengthen MRD’s mission.
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https://doi.org/10.1659/0276-4741-37.1.3Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2017
Authors
Hurni, H.; Breu, T.; Molden, D.; Zimmermann, A.; von Dach, S.; Mathez-Stiefel, S.
Language
English
Keywords
sustainable development, natural resource management, land use, gender
