Call for papers: Digitalization for Sustainable Futures of Mountain Social–Ecological Systems | Deadline 1 July 2022
Mountain Research and Development is looking for papers that systematically assess experiences of how digitalization supports transformative change in mountains or how ICT-related risks can be addressed. Analyses of how digitalization contributes to changes in mountain societies, how it affects spatial and socioeconomic interrelations within mountain regions or between mountains and lowlands, or how digital technologies help address gaps in knowledge about mountain societies and environments are equally welcome, as are reviews of existing knowledge, practices, or policies related to digitalization. Full papers are due by 1 July 2022.
Read the detailed call for papers: ↗https://www.mrd-journal.org/issue/digitalization-for-sustainable-futures-of-mountain-social-ecological-systems/.
AlpWeek 6-7 September 2022 and Alpine Conference 8 September 2022, Brig-Glis (Switzerland)
The AlpWeek is an international event co-organised by the leading Alpine organisations committed to mountain protection and sustainable development. The 2022 edition will take place in in the Alpine town of Brig-Glis in Switzerland, at the foot of the beautiful Simplon Pass. The two-day AlpWeek will lead to the Alpine Conference on 8 September also in Brig-Glis, thus bringing together citizens and stakeholders to discuss the manifold aspects of transition in the Alps.
More information: ↗http://www.alpweek.org/.
International Conference 16-20 May 2022, Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve (Germany)
@ Early career scientists who have recently been conducting research in, for or with a biosphere reserve and would like to present their findings;
@ Donor organisations, funding agencies, research institutions and biosphere reserves who would like to share a specific best practice experience of research management.
More information:
↗https://www.biospherereserves.institute/research-conference.
Symposium 12-13 May 2022, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
The Alps are anything but static; they form a dynamic and sensitive organism. Their characteristic relief emerged from complex geological processes and was re-shaped by ice ages, erosion, and evolving life forms. Alongside these forces, humans have increasingly become major geomorphic agents. The consequences of human actions, calculated or unintended, have radically transformed the Alpine landscape, as illustrated today by climate change. The symposium addresses these changes and their representations through the lens of infrastructure, culture, and climate. Cases such as tunnels, roads, and dams shift substantial portions of mountain masses, re-structure entire water systems, revolutionise the mobility of people and goods, and generate new ecologies. These changes continuously challenge the established understandings of the environment. But they are also opportunities to question the worldviews those projects are predicated upon, allowing us to imagine alternative futures for the Alps.
More information: ↗https://vogt.arch.ethz.ch/en/forschungsthema/alpensymposium/.
HIGHLANDS, projet de recherche international: ↗https://www.echo-livradois-forez.org/higlands-projet-de-recherche-international/
Rassemblement mondial en Livradois-Forez: ↗https://www.echo-livradois-forez.org/rassemblement-mondial-en-livradois-forez/
HIGHLANDS.3: un projet pour le développement durable dans les hauts-plateaux: ↗https://europedirectclermont63.eu/highlands3/
