Jayne Glass - Research Student of the Year at UHI
14 July 2010
CMS PhD student Jayne Glass has been named the research student of the year at UHI, the prospective University of the Highlands and Islands.
For a full press article please click here.
For more details about Jayne and her work please click here.
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the Cairngorms National Park Authority started at CMS
01 July 2010
The CMS has started a short Knowledge Transfer Partnership in collaboration with the Cairngorms National Park and with support from the Scottish Government.
The main goal of the Partnership is to engage recent and ongoing research with practitioners, communities, landowners and other stakeholders in the Park Area and set up a process for knowledge transfer from knowledge providers (researchers) to users on the ground. We are planning to achieve this through setting up a web-presence for knowledge transfer, improve available materials (on web) on research activities, active institutions, stakeholders, organise a public event to engage and link research and practice in the Park and support the Park Authority in preparing their new Management Plan.
For more information on this project and how you can participate please click here or contact our Knowledge Exchange Associate, Catalina Munteanu.
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Professor Martin Price wins teaching award for Most Innovative Lecturer
28 May 2010
CMS Director, Martin Price has been voted most innovative lecturer by UHI (University of the Highlands and Islands) students for teaching the MSc online Module Managing Sustainable Mountain Development on environmental and societal issues in mountain areas.
For a full press article please click here.
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The Centre for Mountain Studies Annual Report 2009 is now available!
(please click the related link on the right to view the report)
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CMS PhD student joins IUCN peatland research team
31 March 2010
Jayne Glass, member of the Sustainable Estates for the 21st Century team, is joining a prestigious group of academics in conducting a technical review of policy measures for the sustainable management of UK peatlands. Commissioned by the IUCN UK Peatland Programme and the Relu Programme, the research is led by the University of Aberdeen and will draw on widespread research on peatland conservation in order to produce robust guidelines for policymakers on how to secure the long-term future of these habitats.
Jayne’s own PhD research has enabled the development of a toolkit for monitoring sustainable management processes on upland estates in Scotland, designed with a representative panel of estate practitioners, researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders. She will assist the peatlands research project as a co-author inputting sustainable management options and information on the differing sustainability perceptions of upland stakeholders.
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International conference: ‘Global Change and the World's Mountains’
Perth, Scotland, 26-30 September 2010
Global change, including a wide range of inter-connected processes ranging from global climate change to economic globalisation, disproportionately affects mountain areas and the billions of people who depend on them for their livelihoods and for various goods and services. Mountain systems are particularly fragile, and subject to both natural and anthropogenic drivers of change. These range from volcanic and seismic events and flooding to global climate change and the loss of vegetation and soils because of inappropriate agricultural and forestry practices and extractive industries. Thus, many mountain ecosystems are moving along trajectories that couple high rates of environmental change with strong economic changes. The collective effect may be to alter the ability of these ecosystems to provide critical goods and services to both mountain and lowland people.
In October 2005, many of these issues were addressed in the Open Science Conference of the GLOCHAMORE (Global Change and Mountain Regions) project, funded principally by the EU 6th Framework Programme, with further support from UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme, which took place in Perth, Scotland. The event was organised by the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College UHI in collaboration with the other GLOCHAMORE project partners, and was attended by 210 people from 41 countries. Published outcomes included the GLOCHAMORE Research Strategy, the proceedings, and a number of special issues of peer-reviewed journals.
Five years later, ‘Global Change and the World’s Mountains’ is being organised by:
- the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development at the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College UHI, in collaboration with
- the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), a joint project of the International Human Dimensions of Global Change Programme (IHDP) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The conference is also endorsed by the Global Land Project of the IGBP and IHDP, UNESCO’s MAB programme, and the Commission on Mountain Response to Global Change of the International Geographical Union.
Conference aims
To bring together leading scientists and others working in, and concerned with, mountain areas around the world in order to:
- present, evaluate and synthesise progress in our understanding of global change in mountain regions since 2005;
- work proactively on a global agenda for research and action relating to global change and mountain regions, taking into consideration global assessment and policy processes, such as those relating to the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as the consideration of mountains by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in 2012, 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit.
Registration/Funding
Please click here for information on registration.
For further information and updates about the conference, please visit the conference website.
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