Happy International Mountain Day 2017!
The United Nations General Assembly designated 11 December “International Mountain Day”. The list of events and actions around the world can be found at http://www.fao.org/international-mountain-day/en/
Blog Archives
Fall edition of the S4C Newsflash is now available online
Fall edition of the S4C Newsflash is now available online
Current practices and challenges for modelling past and future land use and land cover changes in mountainous regions – Regional Environmantal Change special issue
Regional Environmental Change special issue, dedicated to mountainous areas has been recently published. The issue Current practices and challenges for modelling past and future land use and land cover changes in mountainous regions , Kozak J., Gimmi U., Houet T., Bolliger J. (eds.) is now available online.
RegioResources 21-2018 – Global megatrends and Landscape – conference abstract submission till 31.01.2018
AIM OF THE CONFERENCE is to develop creative discussion in the research of assessment of global megatrends and elimination of their negative consequences and impacts on the landscape and society. WHEN & WHERE: 17. – 19. April 2018, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia TOPICS: Mapping and assessment of ecosystem services and biodiversity …
FC 2016 publications in the Annals of Forest Research
A set of papers presented during the Forum Carpaticum 2016 conference are available online in the Annals of Forest Research.
Special issue of the Science of The Total Environment dedicated to the Forum Carpaticum 2016
The special issue includes a selection of papers presented at the 2016 Forum Carpaticum International Conference. The papers are available online.
On social innovation in rural, forest-dependent communities – session with Carpathian examples during IUFRO Congress in Freiburg, Germany
The cases from the Carpathian Mountains will be presented among many examples of the social innovations in rural areas during the session entitled “Ecosystem services and the wellbeing of forest dependent communities: enhancing social innovation and building resilience to global changes in remote rural areas“, organised by S4C SSC member …
Call for case studies for a publication on Migration trends in Mountains
As a contribution to the High-level Conference on Mountains in December 2017 and for International Mountain Day 2017 will be “Mountains Under Pressure – climate, hunger, migration and with the aim of better understanding a phenomenon that is strongly impacting the development of mountain areas, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) and …
Call for papers: Special Issue on “Impacts of climate change on the mountain cryosphere and associated responses”
The special issue, with guest co-editors Carolina Adler (MRI), Christian Huggel (University of Zurich), Anne Nolin (Oregon State University) and Ben Orlove (Columbia University), will be published in the journal Regional Environmental Change (REC), focusing on the impacts of climate change on the high-mountain cryosphere and downstream regions as well …
Extension to the Joint World Heritage Property “Primeval Beech forests of the Carpathians (Slovak Republic and Ukraine) and the Ancient Beech forests of Germany (Germany)
The transboundary extension of the World Heritage site of the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine) stretches over 12 countries. This property was inscribed by the World Heritage Committee first in 2007 as “Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, Slovakia …