International Geographical Union Regional ConferenceeventThis regional conference for geographers will address the ‘Changes, Challenges, Responsibility’ that pertain to modern geography. Namely, the significant challenges focusing on the recognition of and response to contemporary changes in the environment, society and economy, which call for responsibility. The forum aims to help define pathways towards sustainability and...
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MRI Key Contact Workshop prior to the ESA Annual Meeting 2014eventThe 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?newsThis 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/forestsnewsOn 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 KyrgyzstannewsA 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 AlpsnewsOne 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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