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| Title: |
Workshop on "A Global Change
Research Network in African Mountains" |
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| Dates: |
23 - 25 July 2007 |
| Venue: |
Kampala, Uganda |
| Organizers: |
The Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland; UNESCO Man
and the Biosphere Program, Paris, France; CGIAR Global Mountain Programme,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; African Highlands Initiative, Kampala, Uganda;
Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia;
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Egerton University, Nakuru,
Kenya; University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; University of the Witswatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa; Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment
(GMBA), Switzerland |
| Contact: |
Bob Nakileza, Makerere University, Uganda
nakilezab@yahoo.com and nakilezab@arts.mak.ac.ug |
| More info: |
http://www.unesco.org/mab/ |
| Attachment: |
Brochure.pdf |
| Summary: |
The workshop in Kampala has several objectives. First, we want
to bring together researchers, site managers (e.g. Biosphere Reserve
managers) and stakeholders, and representatives of funding agencies
to refine the Global Change in Mountain Regions (GLOCHAMORE) Research
Strategy developed under the EU 6th Framework Programme. The Strategy
is global in scope and we wish to translate it into an agenda that
responds to the realities of highland Africa. We hope that a focused
and realistic GC research strategy
can be used by researchers in their proposals to funding agencies
to augment both the volume and the efficiency of funds directed
toward global change research.
Second, we want to facilitate the development of a multi-site
network in highland Africa within which interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary
GC research is pursued. This research can include monitoring and
data acquisition, focused process studies, integrative modeling,
and can provide guidance to sustainable development and conservation
of mountain areas.
The network could include continental scale transects (e.g. Ethiopia
to South Africa) as well as altitudinal transects. These research
projects can certainly have strong disciplinary foci but should
be embedded within a larger integrating framework which should itself
be related to the needs of policy makers and stakeholders.
The goal of the workshop is then to move us from the generalities
of a Research Strategy to the details of "real projects by
real people in real places", especially as those involve scientists
and local mountain communities in the assessment of adaptations
to global change.
Participants in the workshop should include researchers, site managers,
staff from organizations and agencies responsible for rural development,
key stakeholders in different mountain regions, staff of regional
research and development initiatives, donors and NGOs.
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| Topic: |
07.- Natural Heritage |
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