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Job available at University of Central Asia

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The University of Central Asia (UCA) is seeking a new senior research scientist for long-term socio-ecological system research and environmental monitoring. The duty station will be at Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.

UCA’s Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI) is a university-wide research institute that generates, disseminates and promotes the application of knowledge...

Newsletter for West Africa mountains

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The Platform of Civil Society Organization for the Safeguard of Mountains (PSM) began a newsletter for green actors in seven countries of West Africa. PSM is a platform for the stability of mountains and the wellbeing of mountain communities in West Africa and includes some Mountain Partnership members.

With the release...

Alpine Summer School

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The Italian-French summer school, "Fundamental processes in geophysical fluid dynamics and the climate system," is organized each year by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR (Turin, Italy) and by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France). This year the ten-day course is dedicated to understanding...

Mountain pastures and livestock farming facing uncertainty: environmental, technical and socio-economic challenges

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (FAO-CIHEAM) subnetwork on Mountain Pastures aims to share scientific and technical knowledge on mountain pastures and livestock farming, for which, among other activities, it organizes biennial meetings in...

VII Meeting of Knowledge and Practices of Rural Andean Peoples

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For four days in the city of Andahuaylas, people who live in rural parts of the Andes in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru will meet again for a meeting of knowledge and practices, organized by REDAR Peru and the Ministry of Agriculture of Peru.

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Mountain Research and Development issue online

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In this Focus issue of Mountain Research and Development, several papers address modernization and sustainable development, showing that development in mountains can take up positive aspects of modernization such as improved energy production and use in Europe, multi-local livelihoods in Pakistan, combined use and conservation of natural resources...