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Plenary Speakers 

 

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*** The conference will be opened by Roseanna Cunningham MSP, Minister for Environment, The Scottish Government ***

 

 

David Barkin  Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico  Economic globalisation in mountain regions 
Bernard Debarbieux University of Geneva, Switzerland Mountains as global common goods
Katharine Dickinson University of Otago, New Zealand Changes in mountain biodiversity
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mountain ecosystem services -- who cares?
Patrick Hostert Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany The Fall of the Iron Curtain - a major driver of land-use changes in mountains
Toshio Koike University of Tokyo, Japan The role of mountains in atmospheric circulation
Paul Mayewski University of Maine, USA Changes in climate and in glacier extent
Bruno Messerli University of Bern, Switzerland Global Concerns in a time of Global Change: Where are we coming from, where are we going to?
Peter Messerli University of Bern, Switzerland Slow mountains: Bridging the gap between contextuality and globalised agendas in mountain development
Eduard Mueller University for International Cooperation, Costa Rica Challenges of global change for Mountain Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites
Masayoshi Nakawo National Institutes for the Humanities, Tokyo, Japan Change in water availability for the last 2000 years in arid central Eurasia  -is it a consequence of climate change or human activities?
Anne Nolin Oregon State University, USA Mountain Hydrology: Landscape Connectivity and Change
Martin Price Perth College UHI, UK Mountains as global common goods
Yao Tandong Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Global changes on the Third Pole

 

 

 

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British Council

UNESCO MAB Programme

Global Land Project

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Austrian Academy of Sciences