Welcome to the Mountain Research Initiative!
The Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) is a multidisciplinary scientific organization that addresses global change issues in mountain regions around the world.
The MRI strives to support the design of integrated research strategies and programs that further our understanding of the impacts of Global Change in mountain areas and that lead to tangible results for stakeholders and policy-makers.
MRI is a joint project of IHDP and IGBP and is funded by the
Swiss National Science Foundation
MRI is hosted at the Institute of Geography of the University of Bern
News and Events
January Newsflash of the Global Change Research Network in African Mountains * Project: Multi-scale analyses of the climate-glacier relationship on tropical Lewis Glacier, Mount Kenya, East Africa * Proposal:AFrIcaN AppliEd Land System SciencE (FINESSE) * Events & Publications
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Mountain Sustainability: Transforming Research into Practice MRI and 5 European partners will work on developing innovative communication tools to make research results available to practitioners in mountain regions. mountain.TRIP is funded through the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme and will run throughout 2010 and 2011. http://www.mountaintrip.eu/
January Newsflash of S4C- Science for the Carpathians!
Update of the Who is Who in Carpathian
Science * Assessment of land use changes in the Polish part of the Carpathians * BIOREGIO Carpathians * Status of high conservation value forest delineation and management in Ukraine * Publications * Grants *
New publication for which well-known experts from established
mountain organisations contributed key insights: Mountains and Climate
Change: from Understanding to Action. Produced in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) by the Swiss Agency for Development (SDC) and the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE).
MRI and the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College UHI are planning a conference on Global Change and the World's Mountains, as a follow-up to the 2005 Open Science Conference “Global Change in Mountain Regions”.
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