global change
MRD is pleased to announce the publication of a Supplement Issue containing keynote papers, a synthesis paper, and policy papers that emerged from the 2010 “Global Change and the World’s Mountains” conference, which took place in Perth, Scotland, from 26–30 September. The peer-reviewed keynote papers address issues ranging from mountains as a global common good to mountain communities’...
The Mountain Research Initiative promotes and coordinates research on global change in mountain regions around the world.
As part of that mission, MRI funds workshops that bring together global change researchers from around the world to address specific topics of interest to the mountain research community with the objective of producing a synthesis...
Mountains offer vertical environmental gradients for life otherwise only seen over several thousands of kilometers of latitudinal distance. A gravity shaped extremely diverse topography provides opportunities for additional diversification of life, leading to unbeaten biodiversity. Mountains are cradles and refuges of organismic diversity and given their coverage of such a wide spectrum of...
The Mountain Research Initiative will bring together a small number of experts on social-ecological research and coupled human-natural system modeling in mountain regions around the world to participate in a synthesis workshop, Building Resilience of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems to Global Change. Under the leadership of Julia Klein (Colorado State University) and Anne...
The issue of coping up with environmental uncertainties, arising from ‘climate change’ which is part of a larger set of ‘global change’ phenomena, complex on account of its having multi parametric nature and uncertainities in quantifying the parameters to sufficient precision, (Bondeau et al., 1997; Walker et al., 1999; Ramakrishnan, 1998). Added to this complexity is the less understood...
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