Timetable
You can now view our online programme to find your presentation and session time.
You can also download the timetable for all the parallel sessions and themes here.
Outline Timetable
Sunday 4th October
Monday 5th October
09.00 Opening session
XXXMargaret Munckton, Principal, Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands
Rolf Weingartner, Chair, Mountain Research Initiative
Christian Körner, Founding Chair, Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment
Dennis Ojima, Acting director, Colorado hub of the Future Earth Secretariat
09.30 Plenary: Transdisciplinary approaches to mountain environment and livelihood sustainability from local to global scales - Julia Klein, Colorado State University, USA (see Plenary page for abstract)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Parallel session 1
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Parallel session 2
15.45 Break
16.15 Poster session
18.00 Reception
20.30
Ceilidh (Scottish dancing evening)
Tuesday 6th October
09.00 Plenary: Elevation-dependent warming: evidence, mechanisms and research needs - Ray Bradley, University of Massachussetts, USA (see
Plenary page for abstract)
09.30 Plenary: Mountain future in a bioclimatic framework - Christian Körner, University of Basel, Switzerland (see
Plenary page for abstract)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Parallel session 3
Order-for-parallel-sessions
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Parallel session 4
15.45 Break
16.15 Parallel session 5
20.00
Public lecture
Wednesday 7th October
09.00 Plenary: Framing the human dimensions of mountain landscapes - Courtney Flint, Utah State University, USA (see
Plenary page for abstract)
09.30 Plenary: Managing mountain natural hazards in developing and developed countries - Monique Fort, Université Paris-Diderot, France (see
Plenary page for abstract)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Parallel session 6
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Parallel session 7
15.45 Break
16.15 Parallel session 8
19.30
Conference dinner
Thursday 8th October
09.00 Plenary: Changes in human-landscape interactions after forest cover change in the Andes - Veerle Vanacker, University of Louvain, Belgium (see
Plenary page for abstract)
09.30 Plenary: Land degradation and sustainable land management in the Ethiopian mountains and highlands - Hans Hurni, University of Bern, Switzerland (see
Plenary page for abstract)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Conference synthesis
Dr. Greg Greenwood, MRI
Prof. Martin Price, Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College UHI
11.00 Final Roundtable on ‘Future Earth – An agenda for R&D from a mountain perspective’
Moderator:
Prof. Hans Hurni, Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of Bern, Switzerland
Participants:
Dr. Angela Andrade, Deputy Chair, Commission on Ecosystem Management, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Prof. David Hik, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Sam Kanyamibwa, Executive Director, Albertine Rift Conservation Society, Uganda
Dr. Derek Kauneckis, Associate Professor, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, Ohio University, USA
Dr. Günter Köck, National and international research programmes, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Dr. Anil Mishra, Programme Specialist, International Hydrological Programme, UNESCO
Maria Uhle, Program Director for International Activities, Directorate for Geosciences, National Science Foundation, USA
12.30 Closing remarks
13.00 Close