Global Change and the World's Mountains - Call for papers: Deadline 1 March 2010

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An international conference to be held in Perth, Scotland (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 26-30 September 2010

The Conference aims are to bring together leading scientists and others working in, and concerned with, mountain areas around the world in order to:

• present, evaluate and synthesize progress in our understanding of global change in mountain regions since 2005;
• evaluate progress with regard to the implementation and impacts of the GLOCHAMORE Research Strategy;
• work proactively on a global agenda for research and action relating to global change and mountain regions, taking into consideration global assessment and policy processes, such as those relating to the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as the consideration of mountains by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in 2012, 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit.

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