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IGU Commission Diversity in Mountain Systems
Chairman: Prof. Dr. Jörg Stadelbauer Dept. of Cultural Geography University of Freiburg D-79085 Freiburg Fax: +49 761 203 3575 e-mail: joerg.stadelbauer@geographie. uni-freiburg.de
Newsletter 10 / December 2005
Obituary
To our deep regret we have to announce that IGU Vice President Nikita Glazovsky died suddenly and unexpectedly on 20 November 2005. A memorial service was held in the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences on 22 November. Nikita Glazovsky was buried in a small village near Moscow on 23 November.
Condolences may be addressed to his wife, Liudmila Glazovskaya, c/o Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetni pezeulok 29, 10917 Moscow, Russia (Fax +7-095-951-9070) or via e-mail to [email protected]
The IGU lost a superb scientist and warm and engaging colleague. All who knew him will mourn his untimely death.
1 Editorial
Dear Colleague,
I am really pleased to send you the newest edition of the Newsletter. Welcome to everyone who conducts research on mountains and wants to become member of our commission! Please send me an e-mail so that I can include you into the list of members. Of course, membership should not be written only on a paper: Please feel motivated to conduct mountain research, to inform other members about it and to participate in the activities and meetings of
1 the Commission! This is said especially to those who are member of national specialty groups on (high-)mountain research.
Members of the Steering Committee 2004 – 2008 of our commission are:
Professor Dr. Jörg Stadelbauer (chair) Mankato, MN 56001 (Germany) E-mail: [email protected] University of Freiburg Department of Cultural Geography Professor Dr. Hans Hurni (Switzerland) D-79085 Freiburg Department of Geography E-mail: [email protected] University of Berne freiburg.de Hallerstrasse 12 CH-3012 Bern PD Dr. Jörg Löffler (Secretary) (Germany) E-mail: [email protected] University of Bonn Department of Geography Professor Dr. Martin Price (UK) Meckenheimer Allee 166 Director, Centre for Mountain Studies D-53115 Bonn Perth College E-mail: [email protected] UHI Millennium Institute Crieff Road Prof. Dr. Yuri Badenkov (Russia) Perth PH1 2NX, UK Institut Geografii Rossijskoy Akademii Tel: +44 (0) 1738-877217 Nauk Fax: +44 (0) 1738-877018 Staromonetnyy pereulok, 29 URL : http://www.cms.uhi.ac.uk Moskva E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Ass. Prof. Fausto Sarmiento, Ph.D. Prof. Dr. Monique Fort The University of Georgia UFR GHSS, Case 7001 Office of International Education Centre de Géographie Physique Phone: +706 583 0477 Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot Fax: +706 542 7102 2 Place Jussieu E-mail: fsarmien@ uga.edu F-75 251 Paris Cedex 05 URL: http://www.uga.edu/oie/sarmiento/htm E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Donald A. Friend, Ph.D. (USA) NN Department of Geography Minnesota State University NN Armstrong Hall 7 NN
The Commission continues to register interested scholars in an e-mailing list. Unfortunately, I lost some data after a virus attact against my computer. Therefore, a new e-mailing list has to be composed. Please, feel free to contact us if you wish to get our newsletter which is mainly based on informations from the internet. We also suggest to contact the Mountain Forum, unless you already did before. Please also visit our website: http://www.geographie.uni-freiburg.de/ikg/igu-mountain/ There, you will find all Newsletters edited by the IGU Commission “Diversity of Mountain Systems” since 2000.
Sorry,
2 there has been some confusion in counting the Newsletter … The correct enumeration should be 2001: Newsletter #1, Dec. 2002: Newsletter #2, June, #3 Dec. 2003: Newsletter #4, March, #5 Nov. 2004: Newsletter #6, July, #7 Dec. 2005: Newsletter #8, July, #9 Sept., #10 Dec.
2 Main event forthcoming: The International Geographical Union: Regional Conference 2006, Brisbane / Australia
As announced in the last issue of the Newsletter, the next regional conference of the IGU will take place at Brisbane, Australia, 3-7.7.2006. We repete the general invitation of the Organizing Committee:
Regional Responses to Global Changes A view from the Antipodes 3-7 July 2006, Brisbane, Australia and joint meeting of the Institute of Australian Geographers and the New Zealand Geographical Society
This conference will focus geographical attention on critical physical and human processes driving global change. Complex, global-scale processes exert pressures on environmental, social, cultural and economic resources at regional and local scales. It will look at regional responses in a changing world, with emphasis on tropical zones, particularly in south-east Asia and the south-west Pacific.
The IGU 2006 Brisbane Conference will focus on regional responses in a changing world with emphasis on equatorial and tropical zones, particularly in south-east Asia and the south- west Pacific. Key symposia will include: local and regional impact of resource exploitation and community responses mobilisation of regional capabilities to sustain and enhance social, cultural and environmental values constructive responses to natural disasters, climatic change and other global-scale processes. Analysis of contemporary development issues will be a key theme, including the role of indigenous/non-indigenous co-management of resources. The Conference enables a timely audit and review of these issues and an opportunity for agenda-setting research discussion. These necessarily involve debate over the cross-national engagements geographers seek to nurture and over the policy and political outcomes of geographers' work.
3 CONTACT US IGU 2006 Brisbane Conference Secretariat Eventcorp Pty Ltd PO Box 5718 West End Qld 4101 Australia Ph: 61 7 3846 5858; Fax: 61 7 3846 5859 [email protected]
We got the following important general information from the Brisbane organizational Committee:
IGU2006 Brisbane promises to be a landmark event for the geographers in the Antipodes and a worthy successor to IGU1988 Sydney. We anticipate a packed conference programme over the five days, 3 to 7 July, 2006, given the level of involvement already evidenced by Australian and New Zealand geographers as well as IGU Commissions. Offers to convene sessions, so far received, are shown in the attached document. We also are finalising a list of high-profile keynote speakers, to be published when confirmed.
SOME CRITICAL DATES: The Second Circular will be released by mid-August, containing details on registration, accommodation, submission of abstracts, programme structure, field trips and other relevant information. For those seeking to contribute to programme development, the following dates are given here: 16 December 2005: Deadline for receipt of abstracts that are eligible for consideration in specialist sessions. 24 February 2005: Deadline for receipt of abstracts for inclusion in general paper sessions. (These papers may, however, be relocated into a relevant specialist session, where desirable).
PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT: The conference programme will be constructed around three different session formats: Keynote sessions: These will be given prominence in morning time-slots, with no more than four concurrent sessions. Specialist sessions: These will comprise the 'mainstream' sessions convened by Commissions, Study Groups and others, built around specific themes. Depending on the numbers of papers received, ten or more concurrent sessions may occupy each time-slot. General Paper Sessions: These will include papers not accepted into specialist sessions.
We anticipate four ninety-minute time-slots each day but may need to extend this, depending on numbers of papers accepted for presentation. Four or five papers per session may need to be accommodated. However, keynote sessions may have varying formats, possibly comprising one lead speakers with discussants or a panel discussion or some other format.
PROGRAMME CO-ORDINATION: The Programme Committee, comprising Nigel Tapper (Chair), Richard Le Heron, Phillip O'Neill and Gary Brierley will be working on an integrated conference programme, following the August 15 deadline for receipt of proposals. However, we invite all those proposing to convene sessions to scrutinise all offers so far received and undertake advance discussions with other convenors where there may be benefits in co-ordinated or joint sessions. Also, individuals wishing to offer papers in specialist sessions should now directly contact relevant session convenor(s) with their offers. Emails of convenors are shown in the attached listing. (Please note that, in due course, all abstracts must be submitted centrally via our conference website.)
4 Our proposed schedule will enable IAG Study Groups to engage in further planning for IGU2006 during their meetings at the Armidale conference in July. John Holmes will be available to attend Study Group business meetings to fill in any further details.
KEEPING IN TOUCH: Basic conference information is available on our website at www.igu2006.org With the release of the Second Circular, this website will include full details on how to register and submit an abstract. It will also will progressively include details on the conference programme as it is developed and the texts of all abstracts as they are registered.
John Holmes, Chair, Organising Committee [email protected] Nigel Tapper, Chair, Programme Committee [email protected]
Nigel Tapper Professor of Environmental Science Interim Director Monash Environment Institute School of Geography and Environmental Science, Building 11 Monash University, Wellington Road Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia ph.+61-3-99052931 fax.+61-3-99052948 http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/who/nigel.html
The IGU Commission ”Diversity in Mountain Systems” will participate in the Brisbane Regional Conference by hosting at least two sessions with special contributions. We are inviting all mountain geographers to participate in the Regional Conference:
Call for Pannels – Papers - Posters Unfortunately, I got no information by people who want to participate in the Brisbane Regional Co0nference of the IGU. Nevertheless I hope that there will be direct ***. The Commission reserved two time slots for panels and welcomes all proposals for presentations in the frame of these panels. Please inform me in time, if you intend to participate in the conference.
Please send all correspondence and suggestions to [email protected]
3 Awards, extraordinary events
Le Conseiller national Peter Vollmer reçoit le Prix montagne 2005 Le Conseiller national bernois Peter Vollmer a reçu aujourd'hui le prix montagne 2005. Ce prix récompense son engagement en faveur du tourisme et des transports dans les régions de montagne. Le prix, sous forme de cristal de roche, a été remis par Brigitta Gadient, Conseillère nationale grisonne. Le Prix montagne est remis une fois par année par le Groupe parlementaire Montagne et le Groupement suisse pour les régions de montagne (SAB). Le Conseiller national Peter Vollmer s'est particulièrement engagé en faveur des régions de montagne, par le biais de la loi sur les installations de transport à câbles. Ces infrastructures sont très importantes pour le tourisme et l'accès aux régions de montagne. Dans la nouvelle loi fédérale, ce rôle clé est
5 reconnu. Toutefois, cette loi concerne avant tout des aspects réglementaires. Elle régit par exemple les questions de sécurité des installations, ainsi que l'octroi des concessions. Cette loi ne comprend aucune mesure visant à encourager cette branche économique. Pourtant, cette dernière a d'énormes besoins en matière de renouvellement de ses installations. L'association «Remontées mécaniques suisses » estime à 1,4 milliard de francs les besoins de ce secteur pour les cinq prochaines années. Les sociétés de remontées mécaniques ne sont pas en mesure de couvrir elles-mêmes ces investissements. C'est pourquoi le Conseiller national Peter Vollmer s'est fortement engagé, afin de maintenir le soutien financier aux remontées mécaniques, dans le cadre de la nouvelle politique régionale. Lors de la consultation de ce projet, l'administration fédérale avait manifesté son intention de supprimer cette option. Le message récemment adopté par le Conseil fédéral prévoit néanmoins de soutenir certaines infrastructures de développement (par exemple les remontées mécaniques).
Le projet « Porta Alpina » constitue un autre exemple de l'engagement de Peter Vollmer en faveur des régions de montagne. Dans le cadre du débat sur le budget 2006, Peter Vollmer a réussi à faire passer sa proposition minoritaire. Il était pourtant le seul à s'être engagé en faveur de ce projet, au sein de la commission des finances. Au Conseil national, sa proposition a finalement été acceptée par 106 voix contre 71. Pour Peter Vollmer, il était important de ne pas condamner une initiative soutenue par toute une région et par sa population (Surselva). Le « Prix montagne » est remis chaque année à un membre du Parlement fédéral. Cette distinction récompense les personnes qui se sont particulièrement engagées en faveur des régions de montagne. Le jury du « Prix montagne » est composé de représentants du Groupe parlementaire montagne, du Groupement suisse pour les régions de montagne, par des responsables de la Conférence des Secrétaires des Régions de montagne suisses (CoSeReg), ainsi que par des membres de la presse. Ce jury est présidé par la conseillère nationale Brigitta Gadient (UDC /GR).
Berne, le 22 décembre 2005, Communiqué de presse du SAB 1018
Informations complémentaires: Thomas Egger, directeur du SAB Tél. 031 382 10 10
Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Berggebiete (SAB) CH - 3001 Bern, Seilerstrasse 4 Case postale 7836 Tel. 031 382 10 10 - Fax. 031 382 10 16 URL: http://www.sab.ch E-Mail [email protected]; Postkonto 50-6480
4 Conferences, Workshops in the future...
A regular service on forthcoming conferences and workshops is provided by the Mountain Forum. Please contact the website: http://www.mtnforum.org/calendar/calendar.htm
4.1 The Mountains Speak - Social Contact: [email protected] Forum America stuttgart.de 24 - 29 January, 2006, Caracas, Venezuela. Contact: [email protected] URL: http://www.forosocialmundial.org.ve/ 4.3 International Symposium towards sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in mountainous regions 4.2 Annual Meeting, High Mountain 7-9 March 2006, Chiang Mai, Thailand Specialty Group of the German (see Newsletter ‘ 9/2005) Geographical Society 28-29 January 2006, Stuttgart, Germany
6 4.4 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers Sanjay K. Nepal, PhD (AAG), Special Session: Mountain Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism - Diversity, Complexity and Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M University Change College Station, TX-77845-2261 7-11 March 2006, Chicago, IL. Tel: 979 862 4080 Fax: 979 845 0446 http://www.rpts.tamu.edu Co-sponsored by the Recreation and Tourism Specialty Group (RTSG) and the Mountain Geography Specialty Group 4.5 Commission on Mountain (MGSG). Cartography : Workshop on high Continuing with a very successful special mountain cartography related topics. session on mountain tourism organized at 30th March – 1st April, 2006, at Bohinj, last year's Annual Meeting of the AAG in Slovenia Denver and Philadelphia before that, we invite you to present your paper on this For more information, please follow the years' special session on "Mountain link below: Tourism - Diversity, Complexity and http://www.mountaincartography.org/cmc- Change" workshops/pdf/workshop_slovenia.pdf Geographic applications of tourism in the exploration of issues of diversity, complexity, and change in mountainous 4.6 Symposium on Climate Change: environments are welcome for presentation Organizing the Science in the American in this special session. Topics may include Cordillera (CONCORD) 4 - 6 April, 2006, Mendoza, Argentina issues related to natural (e.g., Contact: [email protected] environmental change as a result of URL: http://www.ires.ubc.ca/projects/concord/ mountain tourism, tourism impacts on mountain parks) or social sciences (community perspectives, mountain 4.7 Workshop on Flood Forecasting tourism planning, mountain resort Management in Mountainous Areas development trends, tourism and 17-19 April, 2006, Pokhara, Nepal. environmental policies, tourism and Contact: [email protected] energy, adventure tourism). Both URL: conceptual as well as applied tourism http://www.dhm.gov.np/workshop/flood2006/f research are welcome. lood2006.pdf
Interested speakers, please send your abstracts to [email protected] (but first 4.8 Study Mountain Geography & see the guidelines below). Ecology in the Indian Himalayas Online Registration: Follow the directions 2 May - 10 June, 2006, Nainital, India. on the AAG website (http://www.aag.org). Contact: [email protected] First, you must register for the meeting, URL: preferably online. AAG will process your http://www.usask.ca/geography/himalayas registration and then allow you to submit an abstract online. No abstracts will be accepted that are not submitted online. You 4.9 Conference: Multidisciplinary will receive an acknowledgment from Approaches to Recovering Caribou in Mountain Ecosystems AAG that will include a program 30 May - 1 June, 2006, British Columbia, identification number (PIN). You should Canada then forward your PIN, title of presentation Contact: [email protected] and abstract to Sanjay Nepal at the address URL: below.
7 http://www.cmiae.org/conferences.htm#Multid agungen/2006_BadHindelang/2006_programm isciplinary_Approaches_to_Recovering_Carib _jahresfachtagung.htm ou Anmeldeschluss: 1. Mai 2006. Anmeldeformular hier: http://www.cipra.org/d/formulare/2006_jahresf 4.10 International, interdisciplinary achtagung_anmeldung.htm seminar on social fragility June 16-18, 2006, at the American University in Bulgaria, in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria 4.12 Alpine*Snow*Workshop Organized by The Social Capital Foundation Munich (Germany), October 5-6, 2006. This is the first call for papers. Latest deadline Topics of interest include, but are not limited for abstract submission and registration is June to: 30, 2006. Both oral and poster presentations 1. Definitions of social fragility, will be welcome. The contributions will be 2. Components and factors of fragility and published as conference proceedings in the precariousness in our societies, series of the National Park research reports. 3. Assessment of social fragility. Is social fragility on the rise? The workshop is organized by the Section 4. Mutations in community links, family links Geography of the Faculty of Geosciences, and social networks, University of Munich, and supported by the 5. Moral values and social cohesion, Berchtesgaden National Park administration 6. Mental and physiological public health (both Germany). The aim of the meeting is to issues, bring together the snow research community 7. Economic precariousness and social bond, for the exchange of ideas, experiences and 8. Ethnic and cultural contradictions, visions. Meeting language is English. There 9. Mechanisms of the emergence of new major are no registration fees. risks. Additionally, the THRACE project (Targeting Further details including workshop topics, Human Research for Anchoring Cooperative milestones, the program and the venue can be Evolutions in Europe) supported by The Social found at http://www.alpinesnowworkshop.org/. Capital Foundation will be presented at the seminar. It is an investigation on how to use Dr. Ulrich Strasser social capital to favour transborder cooperation Department of Earth and Environmental in the border regions of Europe, and to Sciences, University of Munich elaborate appropriate tools for doing so. Luisenstr. 37 For more information please go to D-80333 München http://www.socialcapital- Germany foundation.org/conferences/synopsis.htm Tel. +49-89-2180-6682 The Social Capital Foundation Head Office: Fax +49-89-2180-6675 Ave. Eugene Castaigne 16 B - 1310 La Hulpe Cell. +49-171-1954587 Tel: + 32-2-654.10.86 Fax: + 32-2-654.10.86 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.socialcapital- Internet: http://www.geographie.uni- foundation.org muenchen.de/strasser.htm Internet: http://www.glowa-danube.de 4.11 CIPRA : Klima - Wandel – Alpen: Tourismus und Raumplanung im 4.13 Biodiversity Conservation in Wetterstress Asia: Current Status and Future Jahresfachtagung 2006 der CIPRA und Abschlusstagung des Interreg IIIB-Projektes Perspectives DYNALP November 17-20, 2006 18. - 20. Mai, Bad Kathmandu, Nepal. More information: Hindelang/Allgäu/Deutschland http://www.conbio.net/SCB/AsiaMeetings Programm im Anhang oder unter _EN.asp http://www.cipra.org/d/aktivitaeten/jahresfacht
8 4.14 Earth System Partnership Open in a geographic space, in our case, a Science Conference: Global mountain region, is a fundamental premise Environmental Change Regional of MRI. The perspective of ESSP as Challenges advanced in this conference, corresponds November 9 to 12, 2006; Beijing, China nearly perfectly with that of MRI. It seems hard to overestimate the potential of this conference to advance global The MRI should seize this opportunity to change research in mountain regions. First portray mountains as paradigmatic regions of all, the meeting is sponsored by all four for global change research. Why not use programs within ESSP, including the two this conference to propose and even (IGBP and IHDP) that have explicitly announce integrated regional studies in endorsed MRI. Second, the conference is major mountain regions of the world? focussed on regional issues, an ESSP http://www.essp.org/essp/ESSP2006/index. theme reflected as well in ESSP's initiative html for conference info on Integrated Regional Studies. That all the http://www.essp.org/essp/about_essp.html different scientific aspects of global change - REGIONAL for info on ESSP integrated - geophysical, ecological, economic, and regional studies. anthropological - all manifest and interact
5 Conferences, Workshops, Meetings, Events in the past
5.1. GLOCHAMORE the Slide List tab to find thumbnails of all The workshop “Process Studies along slides. Navigate to the first slide in the presentation you wish to see. Then press "Play Altitudinal Gradients to serve from slide" to start the presentation. Conservation and Sustainable Please send us your feedback about the Development” took place in Samedan, webcast to [email protected]! Switzerland from July 27 to 30, 2005. Abstracts and presentations can be 2. The Perth Declaration downloaded from the MRI website (
9 International Open Science Conference Recalling that the five international workshops ‘Global Change in Mountain Regions’ addressed pertinent global change themes as follows: Declaration on Global Change Affecting Global Change Research in Mountain Mountain Biosphere Reserves, Biosphere Reserves (Entlebuch, the ‘Perth Declaration’ Switzerland, 10 to 13 November 2003); Global Environmental and Social We, the participants of the International Monitoring (Vienna, Austria, 9 to 11 May 2004); Open Science Conference on ‘Global Projecting Global Change Impacts in Change in Mountain Regions’, and in Mountain Biosphere Reserves particular representatives of National (L’Aquila, Italy, 29 November to 2 Committees of UNESCO’s Man and the December 2004); Biosphere (MAB) Programme, managers Sustainable Land Use and Natural of Mountain Biosphere Reserves and Resource Management in Mountain Regions (Granada, Spain, 14 to 17 World Heritage Sites, members of the March 2005); scientific community working on global Process Studies Along Altitudinal change issues, and representatives of Gradients to Serve Conservation and international organizations, assembled in Sustainable Development (Samedan, Perth, Scotland (United Kingdom) from 2 Switzerland, 27 to 30 July 2005); to 6 October 2005: Further recalling the volumes of proceedings emanating from four workshops mentioned Recognizing the need for further efforts to above, which are collections of papers restore and preserve sustainable conditions for presented by and for the global change human well-being and nature in a changing scientific community and Mountain Biosphere world according to multi-lateral directives, Reserve managers, thus providing a valuable agreements and frameworks relevant to source of reference for GLOCHAMORE. sustainable mountain development such as Chapter 13 of Agenda 21, the World Summit Appreciating that the workshops have on Sustainable Development Plan of benefited from the substantial and Implementation and in particular Paragraph 42, organizational support of the Mountain the Mountain Partnership, the work programme Research Initiative (MRI), the Department of on Mountain Biodiversity and Article 8(j) on Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Landscape Ecology of the University of Vienna Practices of the Convention on Biological (CVL), the individual local organizers and the Diversity (CBD), the United Nations consortium members of the European Convention to Combat Desertification Commission funded project ‘Global Change (UNCCD), the United Nations Framework and Mountain Regions (GLOCHAMORE)’; Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), Chapter 27 of the Millennium Ecosystem Further appreciating that the Open Science Assessment, and other relevant international Conference on ‘Global Change in Mountain instruments; Regions’ has benefited from the substantial and organizational support of the Centre for Expressing our gratitude to the European Mountain Studies at Perth College (CMS), and Commission (FP6) and the United Nations the GLOCHAMORE consortium members Educational, Scientific and Cultural including MRI; Organization (UNESCO) for having provided funds from 2003 to 2005 for the ‘Global Recognizing that global change, and in Change and Mountain Regions particular global warming, has and will have (GLOCHAMORE)’ project for a series of five serious impacts on policies, the biophysical international workshops and the Open Science environment, and the socio-economic Conference in Perth to detect signals and to conditions and livelihoods of people, address consequences of global change in particularly in fragile mountain environments, mountain regions, and especially in Mountain but also in the adjacent lowland areas; Biosphere Reserves; Being concerned that global change affects inter alia species composition and diversity, habitats and the occurrences of rare and
10 endangered species as well as invasive species GLOCHAMORE international workshops and in high altitude mountain areas, thus the Open Science Conference; jeopardizing the conservation value of Express our commitment to continue work mountain protected areas and the function and initiated during the GLOCHAMORE Project, services of their wider environments; in particular as the impact of global change on mountain regions can only be assessed with Further being concerned that global change scientific rigour over an extended period of will modify the storage, release and time; distribution regimes of snow, ice and waters in Declare that we, the representatives and mountain regions, thus jeopardizing lower managers of Mountain Biosphere Reserves in altitude settlements through glacial lake association with the respective National outbursts, rockfalls or debris flows, and Committees of the UNESCO Programme on affecting freshwater supplies for the lowlands; Man and the Biosphere (MAB), wish to continue collaboration with the scientific Accepting that global change occurs at rates community and other relevant stakeholders on unprecedented in recorded human history for global change issues related, but not which highland dwellers must develop exclusively restricted, to the following adaptation strategies in various economic Mountain Biosphere Reserves, several of sectors including agriculture, forestry, which have also been designated as World pastoralism, tourism and recreation so as to Heritage Sites, and have constituted a global ensure equitable livelihoods for lowland and research network during the current highland communities; GLOCHAMORE Project Phase: Australia: Kosciuszko Biosphere Emphasizing that global change processes can Reserve; best be understood through inter-disciplinary Austria: Gossenköllesee Biosphere and integrated studies involving natural and Reserve and Gurgler Kamm social scientists as well as input from protected Biosphere Reserve; area managers who often have long-term Canada: Waterton Biosphere Reserve; experience, institutional mandates and Chile: Araucarias Biosphere Reserve; functions; China: Changbaishan Biosphere Reserve; Noting that many Mountain Biosphere Colombia: Cinturón Andino Reserves within the World Network of Biosphere Reserve; Biosphere Reserves have been designated as Germany: Berchtesgaden Biosphere ‘living laboratories’ for their conservation Reserve; value, scientific infrastructure and role in India: Nanda Devi Biosphere promoting sustainable development for local Reserve ; people, develop long-term time series and data Kenya: Mount Kenya Biosphere sets on species, land cover and land uses, and Reserve; maintain records of human impacts on mountain environments needed to study global Kyrgyzstan: Issyk Kul Biosphere change impacts; Reserve; Mongolia: Uvs Nuur Basin Biosphere Committing to the eleven research principles Reserve; that have been developed by the Swiss Morocco: Oasis du Sud Marocain Commission for Research Partnership with Biosphere Reserve ; Developing Countries (KFPE), namely to (1) Peru: Huascaran Biosphere Reserve; decide on the objectives together, (2) build up Russian Federation: Katunskiy mutual trust, (3) share information, (4) develop Biosphere Reserve; Sikhote Alinskiy networks, (5) share responsibility, (6) monitor Biosphere Reserve and Teberda and evaluate the collaboration, (7) disseminate Biosphere Reserve; the results, (8) apply the results, (9) share South Africa: Kruger to Canyons profits equitably, (10) increase research Biosphere Reserve; capacity, and (11) build on achievements; Spain: Sierra Nevada Biosphere Reserve; Call upon national and international entities Sweden: Lake Torne Biosphere and authorities, protected area and site Reserve; managers, and the scientific community Switzerland: Entlebuch Biosphere working on global change impacts in particular Reserve and Swiss National Park and in mountain areas, to consider and implement, Biosphere Reserve; where appropriate, the results of the
11 United States of America: Denali knowledge, experiences and recommendations Biosphere Reserve; Glacier Biosphere on opportunities for income generation, Reserve and Niwot Ridge Biosphere conservation between boundaries, access and Reserve; benefit sharing of biodiversity resources and Further declare that we, the global change regional cooperation, along with summary scientists, will link available knowledge conclusions and the synthesis report, at: systems and conduct research in the above- mentioned Mountain Biosphere Reserves, http://www.mtnforum.org/E- focusing on monitoring, process studies and Consultation05/index_econsult.htm. modeling, thus providing scientific advice to Mountain Biosphere Reserve managers that will help to enhance the overall management of 5.4 E-consultation on the Sustainable these sites in the light of global change Agriculture and Rural Development in processes on topics related, but not limited to Mountains (SARD-M) Initiative (17-21 species composition and diversity, glaciers, October 2005) regional climate, land use and land cover, At the Second Global Meeting of the Mountain freshwater, hazards, grazing, tourism, conflict Partnership, or ‘Cusco Conference’ (Peru, 28- mitigation and governance, and applying 29 October 2004), members of the SARD-M scientific methods, such as the ‘Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Initiative held a special breakaway session to Environments’ (GLORIA), the World Glacier discuss how to coordinate efforts to build this Monitoring Service (WGMS), the Mountain thematic group and its collaborative efforts on Invasion Research Network (MIREN); and SARD-M related issues. This process will Biosphere Reserve Integrated Monitoring further advance later this month in a one-week (BRIM) and other relevant socio-economic e-consultation, open to all 73 members of the methodologies; SARD-M Initiative as well as interested Invite relevant national and international observers from the Mountain Partnership as a funding agencies, the private sector, as well as whole. The activity is being organized by the regional and international intergovernmental Global Secretariat of the Mountain Forum, in organizations such as the European Commission and UNESCO, to provide funding collaboration with the Mountain Forum for continued collaboration between the regional nodes, and will be moderated by Dr. scientific community and Mountain Biosphere Peter Trutmann, Coordinator of the Global Reserve managers so as to provide Mountain Programme at the International scientifically sound information on the effects Potato Center (CIP) in Peru. For further and mitigation of global change impacts on information about participation in the SARD- mountain environments and the sustainable M e-consultation, contact: management of mountain and adjacent lowland [email protected]. communities.
5.5 International Mountain Day 2005 5.3 E-consultation on Biodiversity Tourism can exacerbate poverty amongst Conservation in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya mountain populations. But tourism can also (22 August 2005-2 October 2005) provide lasting benefits for mountain people, if The six-week Mountain Partnership e- sensitively planned and managed. ‘Sustainable consultation on biodiversity conservation in Tourism for Poverty Alleviation in Mountain the Hindu Kush-Himalaya has recently Areas’ is the theme of UN International concluded. Organized and managed by the Mountain Day 2005 -- an opportunity to create Mountain Forum Secretariat, in association awareness about the peril and promise of with the Mountain Partnership Secretariat and mountain tourism, to highlight promising the Asia-Pacific Mountain Network (APMN), models of sustainable tourism and to build the e-consultation attracted participation from partnerships at all levels to promote sustainable members of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya tourism that will reduce poverty, improve Initiative of the Mountain Partnership, along livelihoods, and protect environments for with invited guests, with the aim of producing mountain people and visitors alike. FAO, the a working document for policy advocacy, as agency mandated to lead observance of well as an agreement on enhanced regional International Mountain Day, has developed a cooperation and the sharing of knowledge and dedicated Web site featuring an information information. Read the wide range of views, note on sustainable mountain tourism,
12 guidelines, fact sheets, and links to individuals version of the Mountain Forum on-library and organizations working to achieve within this new Web site -- both elements will sustainable and responsible tourism in be in place by January 2006, the tenth mountain areas around the world. Watch this anniversary of the Mountain Forum. “ While site for regular new postings of information making these changes, the needs of users with resources, including a forthcoming Powerpoint limited and expensive internet access have presentation on how to celebrate International been uppermost in our mind”, states Prashant Mountain Day at the country level. Visit the Sharma, Communications Manager of the International Mountain Day Web site at: Global Secretariat of the Mountain Forum. “ http://www.fao.org/mnts/intl_mountain_day_e For users who find even these pages too heavy, n.asp. If you wish to share an interesting case we recommend the use of study, article, news or features on mountain http://www.loband.org through which a text- tourism, write to: [email protected]. only version of this (and any other) Web site can be browsed”. Visit the Mountain Forum Launch of new Mountain Forum Web site Web site at: Mountain Forum has launched its new Web http://www.mtnforum.org/index.cfm and send site. The re-designed site offers users new any navigational features for easier retrieval of send any feedback, or suggestions for further information without compromising simplicity changes, to [email protected]. and usability for low bandwidth users. Work is currently underway to finalize a new membership database system and a refined
6 Nature Protection, National Parks, Biosphere Reserves, Mountain Heritage
Carpathian Convention Carpathian model of regional cooperation holds valuable lessons for other transboundary Announcement from the Mountain mountain regions of the world.The UN Partnership Secretariat Environment Programme (UNEP), a member of the Mountain Partnership, played a key role Carpathian Convention comes into force in developing the Carpathian Convention, and The Carpathian Convention, an international has recently received requests from mountain treaty to conserve the wildlife, landscapes and regions in the Balkans and Caucasus to support cultural heritage of the Carpathian Mountains, initiatives and cooperation inspired by its work entered into force on 4 January. on the Carpathians. The Carpathian region which spans the Czech Further information Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia UNEP Press Release: and Montenegro, Slovak Republic and Ukraine http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/ is not only one of Europe’s largest mountain Default.asp? ranges but also contains Europe’s greatest DocumentID=467&ArticleID=5072&l=en reserve of pristine forest and provides a refuge Carpathian Convention Web site: for brown bears, wolves, bison, lynx, eagles http://www.carpathianconvention.org/index.ht and some 200 unique plant species found m nowhere else in the world. The Carpathians Contact Harald Egerer, Head, Interim also provides some of Europe’s cleanest Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention, streams and drinking water supplies. UNEP Vienna – ISCC and focal point in the The Carpathian Convention provides the legal Mountain Partnership Secretariat for all framework for cooperation and multi-sectoral environmental issues at: policy coordination, a platform for joint [email protected]. strategies for sustainable development and a forum for dialogue between all involved stakeholders in the region. As such, the
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8 Scientific networks and research projects
8.2 Mountain Research and 8.1 GLOCHAMORE Research Development Strategy Call for Papers: Industrial Development The Research Strategy is the product of a 2- and Energy in Mountain Areas years' negotiation between global change scientists and managers of UNESCO-MAB Mountain Research and Development, a Mountain Biosphere Reserves. It was leading international journal that features key developed to guide researchers and MBR development-related research on mountains, is managers in planning and implementing global planning an issue with a focus on Industrial change research in mountain regions as a Development and Energy in Mountain areas response to global environmental change. (MRD Vol 26 No 2, May 2006). Currently we are seeking contributions for the Development The strategy's development was managed by Section, the first 28 pages of the journal in MRI and the strategy is now at your which articles with color photographs and disposition. Click the following link to other illustrations deal with the theme of the download it: issue for a mixed audience of development http://www.mri.scnatweb.ch/dmdocuments/GL specialists and researchers. OCHAMORE_Research_Strategy.pdf Rationale (if the link does not work by clicking on it The Commission on Sustainable Development copy it into your browser) (CSD) has designated Industry as a key in achieving the goals of sustainable development In the future the GLOCHAMORE Research as supplier of goods and services required by Strategy should serve as framework for society, as a source of job creation and as an scientific research, as background for funding active participant in community life.In proposals and as basis for new collaborations. mountain countries in the South, over 70% of the population live in rural areas and most of See also the fifth MRI newletter on the these peoples livelihoods depend on small- structure and the outcomes of the Global scale agriculture. This causes pressure on Change and Mountain Regions natural resources and a fragile environment. (GLOCHAMORE) project (2003 - 2005). Industrial development appropriate to http://www.mri.scnatweb.ch/dmdocuments/mri mountain settings can help mitigate both _newsletter_5.pdf natural resource degradation and poverty by offering off-farm income opportunities. Dr. Gregory Greenwood Do mountain areas have any comparative advantages for Executive Director sustainable industrial development? The Mountain Research Initiative What might be niche products? What scale of industry is appropriate to mountain areas?
14 What are the preconditions to achieve Editorial Team will assess all abstracts within a sustainable form of industrial the following week and contact you to inform development in mountain areas? you about their decision regarding your What role does accountable energy proposed paper. Please send the notice of supply play for industrial development intent together with the short draft of abstract and how can it benefit the local to the Editorial Team: population? [email protected]
These are some of the questions we would like The final version, including all figures, must to discuss in the May 2006 issue of Mountain be submitted to the Editorial Office by Research and Development. February 1, 2006.
Papers: The main focus of papers in this issue Should you have questions, please send them should be on innovative approaches, project to the MRD Editorial Team experiences, innovative policy efforts, etc. that ([email protected]). We will aim at achieving sustainable industrial be happy to provide additional information development in mountain areas. about this important issue of MRD. For more information on the journal in general, please Format: Papers must be submitted in English consult our web site: www.mrd-journal.org and written in an engaging non-technical style, illustrated by attractive color photos and other MRD Editorial Office forms of illustration. Papers in the Centre for Development and Environment Development Section of MRD are not peer- Institute of Geography reviewed. Length: 3-4 pages in print, i.e. Steigerhubelstrasse 3 10,000 - 14,000 characters, including spaces. CH-3008 Berne; SWITZERLAND Tel.:+41 (0)31 631 88 22 (direct: +41 (0)31 Deadlines: If you are interested in submitting a 631 37 51) paper for the Development Section on some of Fax.: +41 (0)31 631 85 44 the questions above, please send us a notice of E-Mail: [email protected] intent as soon as possible, and a short draft of Web site: www.mrd-journal.org the abstract outlining your approach and the main statements by December 19, 2005. The
9 Bibliography, Recent Publications
leaving nothing for the future. The question Bhishma P. Subedi: Linking Plant-based ahead, can't poverty be alleviated and Enterprises and Local Communities to biodiversity be improved? Isn't there any Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal synergistic way that brings both the factor Himalaya. Adroit Publishers, New Delhi together? Or, how poverty alleviation and 2006. 244 pp. Price: IRS 550 (NRS 880) biodiversity conservation be sustainable? The challenges in several ways are embedded in the People in the mountainous region of Nepal are book and the author applies different methods struggling only to get food to hold on their and experimentations to come up with a lives and the nearby forest gives them hopes to practical solution to the challenges. live. They have easy ways ahead to fetch fuel The author makes a conclusion that enterprise- and fodders form the rich forest. People know oriented community forest management can that they are emptying the forest but don't generate positive outcomes on both know they are destroying lives and conservation and local livelihood. In the light environment. This way, people are digging into of different approaches being tested and the pit of poverty and downsizing their lives implemented to resolve conservation problems, into it. The practice results in increased the findings challenge the approaches that set poverty and decreased biodiversity almost communities aside from the forest resources
15 and keep forest untouched. The author cura di Fabrizio Bartaletti. Torino: Ed. Bollati discovers high prospects for forest based Boringhieri. 496 pp. enterprise development keeping eyes on the local, national as well as international markets of the products. He makes clear answers on how enterprise can help promote the La newsletter d'alpMedia, un service biodiversity. Besides, the research has d'information proposé par CIPRA- identified strategies and approaches that can International, paraît toutes les deux semaines bring favorable changes in government en français, en allemand, en italien et en policies, market structure, and effective slovène et tous les deux mois en anglais. Toute implementation of conservation programs. For reproduction est autorisée sous reserve de citer the study, the author has selected six districts la source (http://www.alpmedia.net). Nous in the mountainous region of Nepal that is vous sommes naturellement reconnaissants si endowed with rich forest-based biodiversity vous transmettez ce bulletin à d'autres and suffered with acute poverty. personnes intéressées par la thématique alpine. Vous pouvez télécharger l'intégralité de la Shova Adhikari, Information Officer ANSAB newsletter en format pdf sur http://www.alpmedia.net. (Pour lire le bulletin en format pdf, vous avez besoin du programme Fundamental monograph on the Alps – not Adobe Acrobat Reader. Vous pouvez only in German télécharger gratuitement ce programme sur le Werner Baetzing’s book on the Alps has been web: published in a revised edition and appeared in http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readst Italian. Together with the French colleague ep2.html). Henri Rougier de Grenoble, the French edition was published in le Mont-sur-Lausanne. Thus, Si vous avez des suggestions, des questions, the monograph is available in the leading des commentaries critiques, etc. concernant la languages of the Alpine region. Hopefully, an newsletter, veuillez les addresser à Felix Hahn, English version will be published together with [email protected]. Donald Friend – depending on financial support. alpMedia Werner Bätzing: Die Alpen. Geschichte und c/o CIPRA-International Zukunft einer europäischen Im Bretscha 22 Kulturlandschaft. München: C.H. Beck. 2nd Postfach 142 ed. 431 pp., ISBN 3-406-50185-0 FL-9494 Schaan Werner Bätzing, Henri Rougier (2005): Les [email protected] Alpes: un foyer de civilisation au Coeur de http://www.alpmedia.net l’Europe. Le Mont-sur-Lausanne: Ed. LEP http://www.cipra.org Loisirs et Pédagogie. 520 pp., ISB 2-606- Tél.: 00423 / 237 40 30 00294-6 Fax: 00423 / 237 40 31 Werner Bätzing (2005): Le Alpi. Una regione unica al centro dell'Europa. Edizione italiana a
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