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Workshop to focus on mountain protected areas

14.04.2015

The International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR) and partners are organizing a two-day international workshop on 25 June 2015 on the role and issues of scientific councils of mountain protected areas. Scientific councils will be seen as interfaces between science and management. Various models of constituting and organizing scientific councils will be presented and the role of scientific councils regarding science and management in protected areas will be discussed by experts from science, mountain protected areas and administration: To what extent and under what conditions are scientific councils able to promote scientific research in protected areas? To what extent and under what conditions can they support the management and the policy of a protected area and mediate conflicts? How can they contribute to building networks and cooperation?

The workshop will gather some 40 members of scientific councils and individuals responsible for management and research in protected mountain areas from all Alpine countries.

The workshop will comprise a plenary session in which experts from several institutions will present and discuss different approaches on scientific research for protected area. The second day of the workshop will include moderated discussion groups on on relationships of scientific councils to science, relationships of scientific councils with management & policy and the role of scientific councils in the interface between science and management.

Expected outcomes:

- A collective publication and policy recommendations to managers and relevant administrations
- Input to an Alpine Space project on the governance of protected areas and the contribution of science