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Details: Created: 03 December 2021

Our colleague and advisor Jorge Recharte, Executive Director of the Instituto de Montaña in Lima, will give a keynote speech at the International Mountain Conference 2022. He will talk about mountain communities that respond to the impacts associated with social and biophysical drivers of change with endogenous processes that are transformative and result in stronger economies and social relations, and the processes that empowered these mountain communities to produce transformative change.

Find out more here:
↗https://www.imc2022.info/portfolio/communities-at-the-top-transformative-processes-in-the-context-of-crisis-in-mountain-regions/.

Details: Created: 03 December 2021

This workshop is organized by our coordinator Fernando Ruiz Peyré (IGF/ÖAW, Austria) and colleague Cecilia Turin (Instituto de Montaña, Peru), and addresses community management of resources in mountain areas, its related challenges as well as new, innovative solutions to tackle these with an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective.

More information can be found on the website:
↗https://www.imc2022.info/portfolio/social-innovation-and-community-resource-management/.

Details: Created: 03 December 2021

Partner and participants of our Highlands.3 network will organize eleven focus sessions of IMC2022, and hence, together with the keynote speech and the synthesis workshop presented above, contribute to an astounding 10% of the conference's content. Come and join us in our sessions:

↗Communicating mountain research otherwise (Plenary Seesion ID14)
↗Current Dynamics and trends in Housing in Mountain Area (Focus Session ID15)
↗Diversity and interactions in mountain livestock farming systems (Focus Session ID17)
↗Effects of digitalisation on participatory governance (Focus Session ID18)
↗Mountain huts: a lab to observe mountain transitions (Focus Session ID41)
↗Mountain Protected Natural Areas as Sustainable Development Tools? (Focus Session ID42)
↗Past, Recent and Future Changes in Mountain Transhumance (Focus Session ID50)
↗Social innovation in mountain areas (Focus Session ID62)
↗Towards climate neutrality in mountains (Focus Session ID73)
↗What future for Youth in Mountain? (Focus Session ID78)
↗Working conditions and attractiveness of agricultural jobs in mountain (Focus Session ID80)

Details: Created: 02 December 2021

Call for papers: Digitalization for Sustainable Futures of Mountain Social–Ecological Systems | Deadline 1 July 2022

Mountain Research and Development is looking for papers that systematically assess experiences of how digitalization supports transformative change in mountains or how ICT-related risks can be addressed. Analyses of how digitalization contributes to changes in mountain societies, how it affects spatial and socioeconomic interrelations within mountain regions or between mountains and lowlands, or how digital technologies help address gaps in knowledge about mountain societies and environments are equally welcome, as are reviews of existing knowledge, practices, or policies related to digitalization. Full papers are due by 1 July 2022.
Read the detailed call for papers: ↗https://www.mrd-journal.org/issue/digitalization-for-sustainable-futures-of-mountain-social-ecological-systems/.

Details: Created: 02 December 2021

AlpWeek 6-7 September 2022 and Alpine Conference 8 September 2022, Brig-Glis (Switzerland)

The AlpWeek is an international event co-organised by the leading Alpine organisations committed to mountain protection and sustainable development. The 2022 edition will take place in in the Alpine town of Brig-Glis in Switzerland, at the foot of the beautiful Simplon Pass. The two-day AlpWeek will lead to the Alpine Conference on 8 September also in Brig-Glis, thus bringing together citizens and stakeholders to discuss the manifold aspects of transition in the Alps.
More information: ↗http://www.alpweek.org/.

Details: Created: 02 December 2021

International Conference 16-20 May 2022, Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve (Germany)

@ Early career scientists who have recently been conducting research in, for or with a biosphere reserve and would like to present their findings;
@ Donor organisations, funding agencies, research institutions and biosphere reserves who would like to share a specific best practice experience of research management.

More information:
↗https://www.biospherereserves.institute/research-conference.

Details: Created: 01 December 2021

Symposium 12-13 May 2022, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

The Alps are anything but static; they form a dynamic and sensitive organism. Their characteristic relief emerged from complex geological processes and was re-shaped by ice ages, erosion, and evolving life forms. Alongside these forces, humans have increasingly become major geomorphic agents. The consequences of human actions, calculated or unintended, have radically transformed the Alpine landscape, as illustrated today by climate change. The symposium addresses these changes and their representations through the lens of infrastructure, culture, and climate. Cases such as tunnels, roads, and dams shift substantial portions of mountain masses, re-structure entire water systems, revolutionise the mobility of people and goods, and generate new ecologies. These changes continuously challenge the established understandings of the environment. But they are also opportunities to question the worldviews those projects are predicated upon, allowing us to imagine alternative futures for the Alps.

More information: ↗https://vogt.arch.ethz.ch/en/forschungsthema/alpensymposium/.