Events
The Conference will present and discuss regional and global experience in mountain development since Rio 1992. It will identify challenges and opportunities for the future of global sustainable mountain development. The results of the Conference will produce insights that will feed into initiatives and events such as the UN Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP), the...
The complex interaction of driving forces in mountain environments and societies means that inter- and transdisciplinarity is the guiding principle for all research activities and its application in mountain regions. As the effects of mitigation reveal to be insufficient, interdisciplinary dialogues and joint efforts of the international mountain community have the aim to inspire and drive...
The Uplands Program is organizing a scientific conference on Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas at Hohenheim University in Stuttgart, Germany, from 16-18 April 2012.
This conference aims to bring together international experts to share knowledge, lessons learned and experiences from across the globe related to sustainable mountain development with an emphasis on...
The conference will address and explore multidisciplinary interventions on the issue of ecological connectivity in the Alps building on the results of the ECONNECT project, established in 2008 by 16 European partners and co-funded by the European Territorial Cooperation Programme in the Alpine Space (INTERREG IVB).
The goal of the ECONNECT Final Conference is to inform on the situation of...
<strong>Objectives</strong>:
The workshop brings together active researchers from around the world working on global change in mountain regions to
(1) present a brief overview of their own research programs,
(2) comment on fellow participant's research, and
(3) discover opportunities for new research collaborations.
<strong>Participants</strong>:
The workshop...
In the recent Local Growth White Paper, the government emphasised its commitment to delivering a huge expansion of renewable energy over the next 10 years. Recognising that community renewable energy projects play a vital role in meeting the national need for secure and clean energy, they will now be allowed keep any business rates generated.
Moreover, the planning system has caused hold-ups in...
Water is a fundamental human need and a critical national asset. It is the key to socio-economic development and quality of life. As the pressures of population and economic activities converge on water requirement, the water sector will increasingly face the challenge of bridging the demand-supply gap. Water covers most of the planet but only 3 per cent of it is fresh water of which 2 per cent...
This is a day devoted to lectures and lessons around the issue of climate change in Africa, to be held in universities and secondary schools across the continent.
The aims of the "African Climate Teach-In Day" are:
a) to disseminate scientific information on climate change in Africa, a way that allow is to be broadly understood, including elements related to its environmental,...
The regional conference on renewable energy development in the countries of Central Asia and CIS is organized by the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, Ministry of Environment, Kazakhstan Electricity Association (KEA) and UNDP Kazakhstan.
The aim is to share with international community with the achieved results, gained experience and lessons learnt by the UNDP/GEF Project "...
Even though some degree of reluctance was seen in the past, in considering matters related to disaster risk management in attempts to mainstream adaptation to climate variability and climate change, there is at present a wide recognition of the need to incorporate disaster risk management concerns in dealing with such phenomena. In addition, there is nowadays a growing awareness about the need...