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Global Change and the World's Mountains 

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Conference themes

 

The overall conference theme of global change and the world’s mountains includes a wide range of themes addressed by scientists from diverse natural and social science disciplines.  Key individuals around the world have proposed sessions on the following themes:

 

 

 

 

Global Session Theme

Organiser

Institution

1

Progress in multiproxy climatic reconstructions in the mountains

 

Olga Solomina

Russian Academy of Sciences

2

High-elevation climate

 

Gianni Tartari

Ev-K2-CNR, Italy

3

Changes in climate along

altitudinal transects 

 

Ray Bradley

University of Massachusetts, USA

4

Changes in the mountain cryosphere
 

Vladimir Aizen

University of Idaho, USA

5

Impacts of climate change on mountain ecosystems

 

Georg Grabherr

IGF and GLORIA, Austria

6

Effects of climatic change on natural disturbance regimes

 

Don McKenzie

US Forest Service

7

Changes in mountain biodiversity

Eva Spehn

Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment

8

Plant invasions in mountains

Christoph Kueffer

Lisa Rew

ETH, Switzerland

Montana State University, USA

9

Integrated mountain observing systems 

 

Mark Losleben

National Phenology Network, USA

10

Changes in aquatic mountain ecosystems

 

Ruben Sommaruga

University of Innsbruck, Austria

11

Changes in mountain soils

 

Willie Towers

Macaulay Institute, UK

12

Changes in and responses to

mountain hazards

 

İbrahim Gurer

Christian Huggel

Gazi University, Turkey

University of Zurich, Switzerland 

13

Past, present and future land use in mountain regions 

 

Harald Bugmann

ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

14

Impacts of global change on

mountain hydrology

 

Daniel Viviroli

University of Bern, Switzerland

15

Integrated water resource management
in mountain regions
 

 

Robert Hofstede

Wouter Buytaert

Mountain Forum

Imperial College London, UK

16

Resilience and adaptation of socio-ecological mountain systems to global change

 

Julia A Klein

Colorado State University, USA

17

Adaptations of mountain communities
to changing hydrologies

 

Hans Schreier

University of British Columbia, Canada

18

Mountain Biosphere Reserves as
learning sites for research,
adaptation, and mitigation in the context of global change

 

Yuri Badenkov

Russian Academy of Sciences

19

Amenity-based mountain change

and development in an era of
increased global uncertainty

 

Laurence Moss
Romella S.
Glorioso

International Amenity Migration Centre (IAMC), Canada & USA

20

Sustainable tourism and resort development in mountain environments

 

Harry Measure

Harry Measure Associates, Canada

21

The  consequences of economic and cultural globalisation

 

Bernard
Debarbieux

University of Geneva, Switzerland

22

Mountain Products in the Global marketplace

 

Douglas McGuire

Mountain Partnership Secretariat

23

Demographic changes in mountain
regions

 

Manfred Perlik

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

24

Urban-rural linkages in and around mountain areas

 

Bernard Charlery
de la Masselière

Université de Toulouse, France

25

Knowledge systems and mountain sustainability concerns

 

P S Ramakrishnan

Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

26

Mountain biocultural diversity:
social scientific approaches to change

 

Will Tuladhar-Douglas

Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research, University of Aberdeen, UK

27

Resilient institutions for common resources in mountain areas

 

Claudia Binder

University of Graz, Austria

28

Approaches to change: The potential of regionalized analyses for mountain development and policy support

Thomas Kohler

University of Bern, Switzerland

 

 

 

  Regional Session Theme

 Organiser

 Institution

A

The Western Mountain Initiative

 

Dan Fagre

US Geological Survey

B

Americas Cordillera Transect

 

Fausto Sarmiento

University of Georgia, USA

C

Monitoring of Global Change in the Asian Mountains

 

 

Eklabya Sharma

 

Inam-ur-Rahim

 

ICIMOD, Nepal

 

University of Central Asia

 

 D

Global change in the Alps: impacts
and adaptation

Daniela Hohenwallner

Institut de la Montagne, France

 

 

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Supporters:

 

SDC

 

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UNESCO MAB Programme

Global Land Project British Council

IGU Commission

Austrian Academy of Sciences