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The overall conference theme of global change and the world’s mountains includes a wide range of themes addressed by scientists from diverse natural and social science disciplines.  Following the submission of more than 500 abstracts, sessions will take place on the following themes, organised by key individuals from around the world.

 

 

 

Global Session Theme

Sessions per Theme

Organiser

Institution

Progress in multiproxy climatic reconstructions in the mountains

 

1

Olga Solomina

Russian Academy of Sciences

High-elevation climate

 

1

Gianni Tartari

Ev-K2-CNR, Italy

Changes in climate along

altitudinal transects 

 

1

Ray Bradley

University of Massachusetts, USA

Changes in the mountain cryosphere
 

2

Vladimir Aizen

University of Idaho, USA

Impacts of climate change on mountain ecosystems

 

4

Georg Grabherr

IGF and GLORIA, Austria

Effects of climatic change on natural disturbance regimes

 

1

Don McKenzie

US Forest Service

Changes in mountain biodiversity

3

Eva Spehn

Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment

Plant invasions in mountains

2

Christoph Kueffer

Lisa Rew

ETH, Switzerland

Montana State University, USA

Integrated mountain observing systems 

 

1

Mark Losleben

National Phenology Network, USA

Changes in aquatic mountain ecosystems

 

1

Ruben Sommaruga

University of Innsbruck, Austria

Changes in mountain soils

 

1

Willie Towers

Macaulay Institute, UK

Changes in and responses to

mountain hazards

 

1

İbrahim Gurer

Christian Huggel

Gazi University, Turkey

University of Zurich, Switzerland 

Past, present and future land use in mountain regions 

 

3

Harald Bugmann

ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

Impacts of global change on

mountain hydrology

 

3

Daniel Viviroli

University of Bern, Switzerland

Integrated water resource management
in mountain regions
 

 

2

Robert Hofstede

Wouter Buytaert

Mountain Forum

Imperial College London, UK

Resilience and adaptation of socio-ecological mountain systems to global change

 

1

Julia A Klein

Colorado State University, USA

Adaptations of mountain communities
to changing hydrologies

 

1

Hans Schreier

University of British Columbia, Canada

Mountain Biosphere Reserves as
learning sites for research,
adaptation, and mitigation in the context of global change

 

1

Yuri Badenkov

Russian Academy of Sciences

Amenity-based mountain change

and development in an era of
increased global uncertainty

 

1

Romella S.
Glorioso

Laurence Moss

International Amenity Migration Centre (IAMC), Canada & USA

Sustainable tourism and resort development in mountain environments

 

1

Harry Measure

Harry Measure Associates, Canada

The  consequences of economic and cultural globalisation

 

1

Bernard
Debarbieux

 

Douglas McGuire

University of Geneva, Switzerland

 

FAO - Food and Agriculture Orgaization of the United Nations

 

Demographic changes in mountain
regions

 

1

Manfred Perlik

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Urban-rural linkages in and around mountain areas

 

1

Bernard Charlery
de la Masselière

Université de Toulouse, France

Knowledge systems and mountain sustainability concerns

 

1

P S Ramakrishnan

Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Mountain biocultural diversity:
social scientific approaches to change

 

1

Will Tuladhar-Douglas

Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research, University of Aberdeen, UK

Approaches to change: The potential of regionalized analyses for mountain development and policy support

1

Thomas Kohler

University of Bern, Switzerland

 

 

  Regional Session Theme

Sessions per Theme

 Organiser

 Institution

The Western Mountain Initiative

 

1

Dan Fagre

US Geological Survey

Global Change in the Americas Cordillera

 

1

Fausto Sarmiento

University of Georgia, USA

Monitoring of Global Change in the Asian Mountains

 

 

1

Eklabya Sharma

 

Inam-ur-Rahim

 

ICIMOD, Nepal

 

University of Central Asia

 

Global change in the Alps: impacts
and adaptation

1

Daniela Hohenwallner

Institut de la Montagne, France

 

 

 

Supporters:

 

 

 

 

 

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British Council

UNESCO MAB Programme

Global Land Project

IGU Commission

Austrian Academy of Sciences