High Altitudes meet High Latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues
Event details
| Date | 11.09.2017 › 12.09.2017 |
| Speaker | The list of speakers is available on the conference website. |
| Location |
Crans-Montana
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Climate change has global causes and effects. This conference addresses growing challenges and their consequences for fragile environments both in the high latitudes and high altitudes, focusing on the polar regions and the Alps. It brings together researches from natural and social sciences to facilitate dialogue among experts with the aim of comparing observations from these regions, tracing causal chains, and connecting the global and local scales of analysis. Problem-based issues such as biodiversity, urbanization, permafrost, health and risk management, structure the conference workshops.
The conference’s emphasis on links between local and global processes, as well as its interdisciplinary approach, also enable the promotion of academic and public awareness on the climate change mechanisms impacting familiar and distant locations.
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Practical information
- Informed public
- Registration required
Organizer
- Martin Beniston, Jérôme Chappellaz, Alexey Ekaykin, Suren Erkman, Matthias Finger, Philippe Gillet, Lassi Heininen, Eric Hoesli, Michael Lehning, Marina Kalinina, Vera Slaveykova, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Natacha Tofield-Pasche