Аннотация:The development of montology as the convergent science of mountains requires paradigmatic shifts and clear lexicon that identifes this transdisciplinary approach. Also the identifcation of the sources for standard use of concepts and nuanced meanings of technical terms is important. One such about-face of ecological theory relates to terminology usage in mountain biodiversity conservation and sustainability; the trend is identifed with new understandings about biocultural diversity, driven by both intangible heritage maintained in the mountainscape and the remains of monumental architecture recently discovered as tangible heritage of cultures that lived in mountainous regions since antiquity. This chapter claims the need to allow noetic science and critical toponymy to infuence and inform mountain conservation-with-development needs, and to respond to new decolonial scholarship that puts critical biogeography and political ecology as explanatory of the ecological legacy shown in contemporary, sentient mountainscapes.
