MRI Key Contact Workshop prior to the ESA Annual Meeting 2014

MRI Key Contact Workshop prior to the ESA Annual Meeting 2014

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The Mountain Research Initiative invites you to participate in its Key Contact Workshop, a setting that stimulates interdisciplinary thinking and that allows peers to take a fresh look at each other's research. Ahead of the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Meeting, the workshop...

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Celebrating International Mountain Day this year?

Celebrating International Mountain Day this year?

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This year on 11 December, the annual celebration of International Mountain Day (IMD) will highlight the valuable contributions of mountain family farming to livelihoods. IMD will be one of the concluding events of the International Year of Family Farming, as 2014 was proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United...

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Costa Rica uses maps to manage mountains/forests

Costa Rica uses maps to manage mountains/forests

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On 21 March 2014, to coincide with the celebrations of the International Day of Forests, the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) of Costa Rica together with the National Forest Financial Fund (FONAFIFO) and the National REDD Strategy with financial and technical support offered by GIZ officially  presented the “Map...

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Climate change platform launched in Kyrgyzstan

Climate change platform launched in Kyrgyzstan

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A new initiative, the Climate Change Dialogue Platform of Kyrgyzstan (CCDP-Kg), was kicked off with a meeting hosted by the Central Asia Mountain Partnership Hub at the University of Central Asia in Bishkek. Organized by a group led by the State Agency on Environmental Protection and Forestry under the Government...

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New report on energy and nature in the Alps

New report on energy and nature in the Alps

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One of the central outcomes of the “International conference on balancing renewable energy and nature in the Alps” is that local residents need to be involved at all stages of the process when planning renewable energy development. Further, decisions to implement the energy transition should not be made under time...

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Monitoring K2 climate data in real time

Monitoring K2 climate data in real time

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The highest climate monitoring station in the Baltoro area of Pakistan was installed near K2 Base Camp in July 2014, as part of the international monitoring project, Stations at High Altitude for Research on Environment (SHARE), promoted by the Ev-K2-CNR Committee. The station is higher than the three...

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