INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOUNTAINS: CULTURES, LANDSCAPES AND BIODIVERSITY
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Deadline: February 28, 2019 | Date: May 10, 2019-May 12, 2019
Venue/Country: Baku, Azerbaijan
Updated: 2019-02-13 05:55:01 (GMT+9)
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We are pleased to announce an international conference to be held at the Mountain Cultureand Landscape Research Institute of Western Caspian University on 10-12 May 2019.Founded in 1991, Western Caspian University is the oldest private higher educationinstitution in Azerbaijan (for detailed information, please visit our websitehttp://wcu.edu.az/en/pages/view/about-university).The Mountain Culture and Landscape Research Institute was established in 2015 under theauspices of the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA).In cooperation with UIAA, our Institute is organizing an international conference on“Mountains: Cultures, Landscapes and Biodiversity” which will take place in Baku(Azerbaijan). Mountainous regions worldwide are affected by the impacts of anunrestrained exploitation of resources (due to heavy mining and intensive farming) and anever-expanding tourism industry that seems to know no bounds. These developments putpressure on the biodiversity and on the population that has traditionally occupied them.Against this background, the objective of our conference is to bring together academics,environmentalists, biologists, tourism experts and other interested professionals in order todiscuss these issues and to find new and creative solutions to the problems that areincreasingly destabilizing many of the world’s most impressive regions.Panel topics will cover the following areas:1. Mountain ecosystems, ecology and biodiversity∙ The role of mountains in shaping ecosystems and biodiversity∙ Drivers and process of change: recent trends and impacts∙ Addressing negative impacts to ecosystems, ecology and biodiversity: adaptation andmitigation2. Mountain Landscapes:∙ The importance of physical features in shaping landscapes∙ Factors influencing landscape and land-use change, trends3. Mountain Cultures:∙ The value of mountain cultures for society.∙ Socio-economic migration, shifting social structures and their consequences for mountaincommunities∙ Finding common ground: balancing optimal solutions with valued outcomes in a climateof rapid social transformations4. Mountain Tourism and Recreation∙ Economic activity and mountain protection: can a balance be found?∙ Mountains and ecotourism: what role for diverse mountain stakeholders in addressingpositive and negative effects?∙ New perspectives and proposalsDeadline for registration: February 28th, 2019
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