Timetable

Outline Timetable

Sunday 4th October

Field trips

Monday 5th October

09.00 Opening session

Margaret Munckton, Principal, Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands

Rolf Weingartner, Chair, Mountain Research Initiative

Christian Körner, Founding Chair, Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment

Dennis Ojima, Acting director, Colorado hub of the Future Earth Secretariat

09.30 Plenary: Transdisciplinary approaches to mountain environment and livelihood sustainability from local to global scales - Julia Klein, Colorado State University, USA (see Plenary page for abstract)

10.00 Coffee

10.30 Parallel session 1

12.30 Lunch
13.45 Parallel session 2

15.45 Break
16.15 Poster session

18.00 Reception
20.30 Ceilidh (Scottish dancing evening)

Tuesday 6th October

09.00 Plenary: Elevation-dependent warming: evidence, mechanisms and research needs - Ray Bradley, University of Massachussetts, USA (see Plenary page for abstract)
09.30 Plenary: Mountain future in a bioclimatic framework - Christian Körner, University of Basel, Switzerland (see Plenary page for abstract)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Parallel session 3
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Parallel session 4
15.45 Break
16.15 Parallel session 5
20.00 Public lecture

Wednesday 7th October

09.00 Plenary: Framing the human dimensions of mountain landscapes - Courtney Flint, Utah State University, USA (see Plenary page for abstract)
09.30 Plenary: Managing mountain natural hazards in developing and developed countries - Monique Fort, Université Paris-Diderot, France (see Plenary page for abstract)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Parallel session 6
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Parallel session 7
15.45 Break
16.15 Parallel session 8
19.30 Conference dinner

Thursday 8th October

09.00 Plenary: Changes in human-landscape interactions after forest cover change in the Andes - Veerle Vanacker, University of Louvain, Belgium (see Plenary page for abstract)
09.30 Plenary: Land degradation and sustainable land management in the Ethiopian mountains and highlands - Hans Hurni, University of Bern, Switzerland (see Plenary page for abstract)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Conference synthesis

Dr. Greg Greenwood, MRI

Prof. Martin Price, Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College UHI

11.00 Final Roundtable on ‘Future Earth – An agenda for R&D from a mountain perspective’

Moderator:

Prof. Hans Hurni, Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of Bern, Switzerland

Participants:

Dr. Angela Andrade, Deputy Chair, Commission on Ecosystem Management, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Prof. David Hik, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada

Dr. Sam Kanyamibwa, Executive Director, Albertine Rift Conservation Society, Uganda

Dr. Derek Kauneckis, Associate Professor, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, Ohio University, USA

Dr. Günter Köck, National and international research programmes, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Dr. Anil Mishra, Programme Specialist, International Hydrological Programme, UNESCO

Maria Uhle, Program Director for International Activities, Directorate for Geosciences, National Science Foundation, USA

12.30 Closing remarks

13.00 Close