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Monday, 27 September 2010
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| 9:30 |
Conference welcome - Martin Price, Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College UHI, UK |
| 9:45 |
Introductory remarks - Rolf Weingartner, Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Mountain Research Initiative |
| 10:00 |
Opening speech - Roseanna Cunningham, MSP, Minister of the Environment, The Scottish Government |
| 10:30 |
Coffee |
| 11:00 |
Toshio Koike - University of Tokyo, Japan - The role of mountains in atmospheric circulation |
| 11:30 |
Anne Nolin - Oregon State University, USA - Mountain Hydrology: Landscape Connectivity and Change - Mountain Hydrology: Landscape Connectivity and Change |
| 12:00 |
Questions |
| 12:15 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 |
Parallel session 1 |
| 15:45 |
Coffee |
| 16:15 |
Parallel session 2 |
| 18:30 |
Poster session and reception
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| Parallel session 1 |
| Location |
Global Session Theme |
| Gannochy |
Plant invasions in mountains 1 |
| Norie-Miller 1 |
Integrated mountain observing systems |
| Norie-Miller 2 |
Impacts of global change on mountain hydrology 1 |
| Earn |
Amenity-based mountain change and development in an era of increased global uncertainty |
| Tilt |
Progress in multiproxy climatic reconstructions in the mountains |
| Museum |
Changes in mountain biodiversity 1 |
| RSGS |
Resilience and adaptation of socio-ecological mountain systems to global change |
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| Parallel session 2 |
| Location |
Global Session Theme |
| Gannochy |
Plant invasions in mountains 2 |
| Norie-Miller 1 |
Effects of climatic change on natural disturbance regimes |
| Norie-Miller 2 |
Impacts of global change on mountain hydrology 2 |
| Earn |
Sustainable tourism and resort development in mountain environments |
| Tilt |
High-elevation climate |
| Museum |
Changes in mountain biodiversity 2 |
| RSGS |
Mountain biocultural diversity: social scientific approaches to change |
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010
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| 8:45 |
Bernard Debarbieux and Martin Price - University of Geneva, Switzerland + Perth College UHI, UK - Mountains as global common goods |
| 9:15 |
David Barkin - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico - Economic globalisation in mountain regions |
| 9:45 |
Peter Messerli - University of Bern, Switzerland - Slow mountains: Bridging the gap between contextuality and globalised agendas in mountain development |
| 10:15 |
Questions |
| 10:30 |
Coffee |
| 11:00 |
Masayoshi Nakawo - National Institutes for the Humanities, Tokyo, Japan - Change in water availability for the last 2000 years in arid central Eurasia - is it a consequence of climate change or human activities? |
| 11:30 |
Paul Mayewski - University of Maine, USA - Changes in climate over the last several hundred years based on ice cores and glacier extent in Asia, South America, Yukon Territory, Antarctica and Greenland |
| 12:00 |
Questions |
| 12:15 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 |
Parallel session 3 |
| 15:45 |
Coffee |
| 16:15 |
Parallel session 4 |
| 19:30 |
Public event organised with the Cairngorms National Park Authority |
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| Parallel session 3 |
| Location |
Global Session Theme |
| Gannochy |
Impacts of climate change on mountain ecosystems 1 |
| Norie-Miller 1 |
Changes in and responses to mountain hazards |
| Norie-Miller 2 |
Impacts of global change on mountain hydrology 3 |
| Earn |
The consequences of economic and cultural globalisation |
| Tilt |
Changes in climate along altitudinal transects |
| Museum |
Changes in mountain biodiversity 3 |
| RSGS |
Mountain Biosphere Reserves as learning sites for research, adaptation and mitigation in the context of global change |
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| Parallel session 4 |
| Location |
Global Session Theme |
| Gannochy |
Impacts of climate change on mountain ecosystems 2 |
| Norie-Miller 1 |
Monitoring of Global Change in the Asian Mountains |
| Norie-Miller 2 |
Integrated water resource management in mountain regions 1 |
| Earn |
The Western Mountain Initiative |
| Tilt |
Global change in the Alps: impacts and adaptation |
| Museum |
Past, present and future land use in mountain regions 1 |
| RSGS |
Global Change in the Americas Cordillera |
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Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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| 8:45 |
Patrick Hostert - Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany - The Fall of the Iron Curtain - a major driver of land-use changes in mountains |
| 9:15 |
Eduard Mueller - University for International Cooperation, Costa Rica - Challenges of global change for Mountain Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites |
| 9:45 |
Yao Tandong - Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Global changes on the Third Pole |
| 10:15 |
Questions |
| 10:30 |
Coffee |
| 11:00 |
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey - ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Mountain ecosystem services -- who cares? |
| 11:30 |
Katharine Dickinson - University of Otago, New Zealand - Changes in mountain biodiversity |
| 12:00 |
Questions |
| 12:15 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 |
Parallel session 5 |
| 15:45 |
Coffee |
| 16:15 |
Parallel session 6 |
| 19:30 |
Conference dinner |
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| Parallel session 5 |
| Location |
Global Session Theme |
| Gannochy |
Impacts of climate change on mountain ecosystems 3 |
| Norie-Miller 1 |
Changes in mountain soils |
| Norie-Miller 2 |
Integrated water resource management in mountain regions 2 |
| Earn |
Demographic changes in mountain regions |
| Tilt |
Changes in the mountain cryosphere 1 |
| Museum |
Past, present and future land use in mountain regions 2 |
| RSGS |
Knowledge systems and mountain sustainability concerns |
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| Parallel session 6 |
| Location |
Global Session Theme |
| Gannochy |
Impacts of climate change on mountain ecosystems 4 |
| Norie-Miller 1 |
Changes in aquatic mountain ecosystems |
| Norie-Miller 2 |
Adaptations of mountain communities to changing hydrologies |
| Earn |
Urban-rural linkages in and around mountain areas |
| Tilt |
Changes in the mountain cryosphere 2 |
| Museum |
Past, present and future land use in mountain regions 3 |
| RSGS |
Approaches to change: The potential of regionalized analyses for mountain development and policy support |
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Thursday, 30 September 2010
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| 9:00 |
Emerging themes for global change research and sustainable development |
| 10:15 |
Coffee |
| 10:30 |
Bruno Messerli: Global Concerns in a time of Global Change: Where are we coming from, where are we going to? |
| 11:00 |
Mountains on the road to Rio+20 and beyond |
| 12:00 |
Closing remarks |