European Mountain Travel Summit

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The European Mountain Travel Summit is a global leadership forum produced by the Mountain Travel Symposium. This mountain travel industry event will bring together over 200 senior executives for two days of networking and learning. The Summit content will feature market research, strategic marketing, best practices and trends - all...

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New issue of MRD Journal is now online

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The new issue of the journal Mountain Research and Development (MRD) focuses on the implications of out- and in-migration on the sustainable development of mountains around the world. Papers in this issue explore several topics, including how asylum seekers, amenity migrants and young people are being integrated in mountain villages...

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A focus on sustainable mountain food systems

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The fifth edition of the Forum "Origin, Diversity and Territories" (ODT) was held on 1 December 2017 in Bulle, Switzerland and celebrated mountains under the theme "Designing sustainable mountain food systems". The forum explored the richness and dynamism of mountain territories.

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Watershed management in action

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This study reviewed the achievements, and also the shortcomings, of 12 watershed management projects technically supported by FAO over the past decade, with a view to learning from experience. Unlike sectoral development approaches, watershed management involves examining the interactions among various natural processes and land uses and managing land, water...

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Mountain Ecosystem Services and Climate Change: A Global Overview of Potential Threats and Strategies for Adaptation

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Mountains provide vital resources to a significant proportion of the global population, particularly as the ‘water towers’ of the world, and as a result of their high biological diversity at genetic, species and ecosystem levels. As well as benefiting people and industries in lowland areas, these ecosystem services (ES) form...

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Global Meeting concludes, new momentum for MP

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Over 220 participants attended the fifth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership on 11-13 December 2017 in Rome, Italy, under the theme ‘Mountains under pressure: climate, hunger, migration’. International Mountain Day coincided with the first day of the meeting, and participants heard high-level statements by founding members of the Mountain...

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