The Centre for Mountain Studies, in collaboration with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) and the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA), is organising a third conference – Perth III – on ‘Mountains of Our Future Earth’. This is a contribution to the global Future Earth programme, a 10-year international research initiative that will develop the knowledge for responding effectively to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change and supporting transformation towards global sustainability in the coming decades.
Conference Aims:
- To present, evaluate and synthesise progress in our understanding of global change in mountain regions, and share examples of innovative approaches, particularly in terms of progress towards addressing the gaps in global research in mountain regions
- To refine and agree agendas for collaborative research and action relating to global change and mountain regions, and to significantly increase the use of applied research findings on the ground in mountain regions
- To foster effective interdisciplinary and international interactions between participants: researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers.
Abstracts:
Abstracts can be submitted online for all of the session themes until 27 February, 2015.
Submissions are invited for oral presentations to:
- 35 research presentation session themes
- 16 round table discussions.
Some abstracts submitted for oral presentation may eventually be accepted as posters, depending on the evaluation of the session organiser and the time available for oral presentations.
You may also submit a poster to any of the research presentation/round table themes. If accepted, these will be grouped accordingly on display at the conference.
Registration/Funding:
The conference is being financially supported by: The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation The Mountain Research Initiative The Austrian Academy of Sciences The Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment and Perth and Kinross Council.
The conference organisers are identifying additional funding for the conference. Consequently, registration fees have not yet been set this will be done no later than March 2015 . If you may require financial support to attend, please indicate this when you submit your abstract.
