Community-based mountain tourism in PakistannewsThe Mountain Area Support Organization (MASO) organized a session for the youth of Gojal, Pakistan on the topic “Role of community-based tourism in socio-economic development”. The session was held at MASO’s office hall in Gulmit Gojal. Educated youth, especially girls, from various villages in the Gojal Hunza Valley attended. Didar...
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The value of carbon stored in mountainsnewsAdrian Ward, focal point of the University of Queensland’s CarbonLab is sharing his recently completed doctoral thesis revealing the economic value of carbon dioxide sequestered by mountain grasslands and shrublands is between USD 1.24 billion and 11.8 billion per annum, in climate regulation terms. His thesis, “The extent and...
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Volunteering with the MP SecretariatnewsThe Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) is especially grateful for the support of its volunteers and interns, including Alyssa Steed, whose volunteer term ended in July 2016. Prior to joining the MPS team, she held a variety of jobs including statistical coder with a humanitarian aid group and student worker at...
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University opens in mountains of Central AsianewsClasses commenced on 5 September 2016 for the first group of undergraduate students to attend the University of Central Asia (UCA) Naryn campus in the Kyrgyz Republic. The Naryn campus is one of three UCA campuses, each located in a remote mountainous area of Central Asia. The 71 students beginning...
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The growing profile of glaciers in PerunewsWith the creation of the National Institute for Research in Glaciers and Mountain Ecosystems (INAIGEM), Peru’s national government is strengthening its role in investigating the nexus of climate change, glacial recession, natural hazards and the management of water and other mountain-based ecosystem services in the Central Andes. The...
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Mountains, uplands, lowlands. European landscapes from an altitudinal perspectiveeventThe 27th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL) will be held on 5-9 September 2016 at two locations: Innsbruck and Seefeld, Austria. All institutions, geographers, landscape architects, historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, ecologists, rural planners, landscape managers and scholars interested in European landscapes are invited...
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