Alpine photo contest 2015

Alpine photo contest 2015

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Sporty and artsy, young and old; traditional and innovative; farmers and gamers, we look for it all! Show us what active and vibrant Alps mean to you. Capture the everyday activities of the people living in the Alps, show generational exchange and passing of knowledge; try to capture the emotions...

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Meeting on mountain development in the Caucasus

Meeting on mountain development in the Caucasus

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The Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientifc and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was invited to participate in the International Roundtable Meeting ‘Man and Biosphere’, which took place in Vladikavkaz, Russian Federation, on 19-20 May 2015. The meeting welcomed scientists as well as directors...

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Policies on Costa Rican forests and mountains

Policies on Costa Rican forests and mountains

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In 2014, the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MEE), formalized the "Guidelines to Facilitate the Implementation of National Forestry Development Plan (NDFP) Costa Rica during the period between 2014 and 2018: Economic Recovery for the Production, Processing and Marketing of Sustainable Forest Products and revenue generation for the...

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Mountains in Horizon 2020 agenda

Mountains in Horizon 2020 agenda

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Lobbying for mountain research with the European funding agencies is one of the current projects of the CH-AT coordination office in Bern. In two meetings in Vienna and Bern, the core group of a “Mountain Research Advocacy Network” developed an ambitious plan for 2015.

Austria and Switzerland as mountainous...

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MP workshop for global mountain label

MP workshop for global mountain label

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‘Mountain products hold immense economic potential to boost sustainable development in mountain regions,’ concluded a group of experts convened by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Rome, Italy on 20-21 May 2015. The participants, most of whom are...

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Fragments of an immense landscape: Mountains in photography 1850-1870

Fragments of an immense landscape: Mountains in photography 1850-1870

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The relationship between photography and landscape plays a key role in Italian and other cultures. The national identity of each and every country and culture is built on its landscape. The positivistic culture of the nineteenth century found in photography the most adequate and efficient instrument to satisfy the growing...

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