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Domenico Branca
Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

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Journal article
Published: 05 June 2021 in Sustainability
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Mountain cities specializing in tourism increasingly aim at valorizing cultural and natural heritage to compete for global attention. In this context, the postmodern urbanization of mountains plays a decisive role: driven by touristification processes, it alters the sociospatial and economic configuration of mountain cities and their hinterlands, which are becoming vertically arranged “operational landscapes”, and profoundly changes city–mountain interactions. To foster sustainable development in urbanizing mountain destinations, it is crucial to understand these settlements’ embeddedness in both (1) nature and culture and (2) space and time. The Andean city of Huaraz is a case in point: an intermediate center in highland Peru, it is characterized by a strategic location in the Callejón de Huaylas (Santa Valley), influenced by Hispanic and Quechua culture and dominated by the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca. Combining (1) a theoretical framework that considers planetary urbanization, touristification and vertical complementarity and (2) a case study technique inspired by urban environmental profiles, we trace the development of the city–mountain relation in Huaraz, focusing on the way in which the material and non-material dimensions of the surrounding mountains influence urban development. We conclude with a call for overcoming a set of three persisting dichotomies that continue to impair sustainable development.

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Domenico Branca; Andreas Haller. Urbanization, Touristification and Verticality in the Andes: A Profile of Huaraz, Peru. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6438 .

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Domenico Branca, Andreas Haller. Urbanization, Touristification and Verticality in the Andes: A Profile of Huaraz, Peru. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6438.

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Domenico Branca; Andreas Haller. 2021. "Urbanization, Touristification and Verticality in the Andes: A Profile of Huaraz, Peru." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6438.

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Published: 31 March 2021 in Smart Altitude
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This final report summarizes the outcomes of the Smart Altitude project. The Smart Altitude project ran from June 2018 to April 2021 and was carried out by ten partners from six different countries in the Alpine Space (Austria, France, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, and Switzerland). The project was co-financed by the European Union via Interreg Alpine Space. The aim of the project was to enable and accelerate the implementation of low-carbon policies in winter tourism regions by demonstrating the efficiency of a step-by-step decision support tool for energy transition in four Living Labs. The project targeted policymakers, ski resort operators, investors, tourism, and entrepreneurship organizations. The Smart Altitude approach was designed to ensure suitability across the Alpine Space, thereby fostering its replication and uptake in other winter tourism regions and thus increasing the resilience of mountain areas.

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Gianni Baldessari; Oliver Bender; Domenico Branca; Luigi Crema; Anna Giorgi; Nina Janša; Janez Janša; Marie-Eve Reinert; Jelena Vidović. Smart Altitude. Smart Altitude 2021, 1 .

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Gianni Baldessari, Oliver Bender, Domenico Branca, Luigi Crema, Anna Giorgi, Nina Janša, Janez Janša, Marie-Eve Reinert, Jelena Vidović. Smart Altitude. Smart Altitude. 2021; ():1.

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Gianni Baldessari; Oliver Bender; Domenico Branca; Luigi Crema; Anna Giorgi; Nina Janša; Janez Janša; Marie-Eve Reinert; Jelena Vidović. 2021. "Smart Altitude." Smart Altitude , no. : 1.

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Published: 01 February 2021 in Mountain Research and Development
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This book brings the perspective of cultural studies to the analysis of the notions of “landscape” and “region” in the Andes through heterogeneous and innovative readings that explore different facets of cultural production in this mountain region. With the term “visions,” the editors give an account of the multiple stories, conflicts, and approaches to the landscape in the Andes and show a plurality of perspectives gathered in the book.

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Domenico Branca. Visiones de los Andes: Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y región [Visions of the Andes: Critical essays on the notion of landscape and region]. Edited by Ximena Briceño and Jorge Coronado. Mountain Research and Development 2021, 41, M1 .

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Domenico Branca. Visiones de los Andes: Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y región [Visions of the Andes: Critical essays on the notion of landscape and region]. Edited by Ximena Briceño and Jorge Coronado. Mountain Research and Development. 2021; 41 (1):M1.

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Domenico Branca. 2021. "Visiones de los Andes: Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y región [Visions of the Andes: Critical essays on the notion of landscape and region]. Edited by Ximena Briceño and Jorge Coronado." Mountain Research and Development 41, no. 1: M1.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2020 in Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research
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Mountain regions face decisive challenges, not only for their sustainable development but also fortheir very reproduction. These challenges have to do with the increasingly serious impact of climate and environmental change, the impact of socioeconomic and cultural globalization on mountain populations and the ecosystems they inhabit, and the effects of urbanization on mountain agriculture. Based on these premises, this article introduces the notion of “montology” by investigating, on the one hand, the historical development of the term and, on the other, by presenting the essential principles of a perspective committed to building a real transdisciplinarity in mountain studies. Finally, through the example of urbanization and its impact on Andean agriculture, we intend to highlight the need to adopt a montological perspective in order to contribute to the analysis of human environmental problems and to the sustainable development of the region. Las regiones de montaña se enfrentan con retos decisivos, no solamente para su desarrollo sustentable sino para su misma reproducción. Estos retos tienen que ver con el impacto cada vez más serio del cambio climático y ambiental, la incidencia que la globalización socio-económica y cultural tiene en las poblaciones de montaña y en los ecosistemas que éstas habitan, además de los efectos de la urbanización en la agricultura de montaña. A partir de estas premisas, el presente artículo introduce la noción de «montología» indagando, por un lado, el desarrollo histórico del término y, por el otro, presentando los principios esenciales de una perspectiva empeñada en construir una transdisciplinariedad real en los estudios de montaña. Finalmente, a través del ejemplo de la urbanización y sus repercusiones en la agricultura andina pretendemos evidenciar la necesidad de adoptar una perspectiva montológica para así contribuir al análisis de los problemas humano-ambientales y al desarrollo sustentable de la región.

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Andreas Haller; Domenico Branca. Montología: una perspectiva de montaña hacia la investigación transdisciplinaria y el desarrollo sustentable. Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research 2020, 22, 313 -332.

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Andreas Haller, Domenico Branca. Montología: una perspectiva de montaña hacia la investigación transdisciplinaria y el desarrollo sustentable. Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research. 2020; 22 (4):313-332.

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Andreas Haller; Domenico Branca. 2020. "Montología: una perspectiva de montaña hacia la investigación transdisciplinaria y el desarrollo sustentable." Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research 22, no. 4: 313-332.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2020 in Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research
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To ensure sustainable endogenous development of the Andean region, research on and for the dominant mountain range of South Americais of crucial importance. As of 2021, the Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research adopts a reformededitorial policy and presents a relaunch of its publishing portal, with the aim to foster sustainable development in and for the Andeanregion. Para asegurar el desarrollo endógeno sostenible de la región andina, la investigación sobre y para la cadena montañosa dominante de América del Sur tiene una importancia crucial. A partir de 2021, la Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research adopta una política editorial reformada y presenta un relanzamiento de su portal de publicación, con el fin de fomentar el desarrollo sostenible en y para la regiónandina.

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Fortunato Escobar-Mamani; Perú Universidad Nacional Del Altiplano De Puno; Domenico Branca; Andreas Haller. Investigación de montaña sobre y para la región andina. Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research 2020, 22, 311 -312.

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Fortunato Escobar-Mamani, Perú Universidad Nacional Del Altiplano De Puno, Domenico Branca, Andreas Haller. Investigación de montaña sobre y para la región andina. Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research. 2020; 22 (4):311-312.

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Fortunato Escobar-Mamani; Perú Universidad Nacional Del Altiplano De Puno; Domenico Branca; Andreas Haller. 2020. "Investigación de montaña sobre y para la región andina." Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas - Journal of High Andean Research 22, no. 4: 311-312.

Original article
Published: 01 December 2019 in Anthropology Today
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This article describes and analyzes important aspects of the relationship between the urban and the rural in the south of the Peruvian department of Puno. The author argues that the assumed arbitrariness of the border between the countryside and the city, between the urban and the rural, is extremely widespread and that Andean peasant communities are undergoing more and more integrating processes at different levels which, rather than determining the disintegration of these communities, are resulting in their redefinition. Kinship networks create flows that include people within much broader contexts than in the past, and both cities and peasant communities can be seen to exist within forms of modernity that do not necessarily correspond to Euro‐American patterns.

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Domenico Branca. The urban and the rural in Puno, highland Peru. Anthropology Today 2019, 35, 18 -20.

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Domenico Branca. The urban and the rural in Puno, highland Peru. Anthropology Today. 2019; 35 (6):18-20.

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Domenico Branca. 2019. "The urban and the rural in Puno, highland Peru." Anthropology Today 35, no. 6: 18-20.