Day 1: Monday, 3 October 2022 (online)
10:00-10:30 | Official opening and welcome
Speakers: Stefan Schneiderbauer (UNU-EHS and Eurac Research, GLOMOS), Christoph Rainer (Cultural Association Sexten) |
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10:30-12:30 | Workshop on “Human-nature interactions in UNESCO designated sites”
Speakers: Tales Carvalho Resende, Akane Nakamura, Yang Bo Kim, Ozlem Adiyaman Lopes, Maria Rosa Cadenas (UNESCO) Moderator: Paola Fontanella Pisa (UNU-EHS and Eurac Research, GLOMOS) |
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12:30-14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00-15:00 | Keynote: Regional cooperation for managing transboundary risks and enhancing adaptation: Reflections from the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Moderator: Stefan Schneiderbauer (UNU-EHS and Eurac Research, GLOMOS) |
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15:00-16:30 | Thematic session 1: Managing environmental challenges in mountain areas
Moderator: Jess Delves (UNU-EHS and Eurac Research, GLOMOS)
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16:30-16:45 | Closing of the scientific part of the first conference day
Speakers: Harald Pechlaner (Eurac Research, Center for Advanced Studies), Stefan Schneiderbauer (UNU-EHS and Eurac Research, GLOMOS) |
Evening event: (on site in Sexten/Sesto and online)
“From destination to living space – participation as the royal road”
18:30-18:45 | Welcome address
Christoph Rainer, Cultural Association Sexten |
18:45-19:00 | Introduction of the topic
Harald Pechlaner, Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research |
19:00-19:30 | Impulse lecture
Participation: suitable methods to shape the living space Jörg Sommer, Berlin Institut für Partizipation |
19:30-20:30 | Panel discussion
Petra Wolffhardt, Product and service developer, Raum|Schmiede Lienz |
Day 2: Tuesday, 4 October 2022 (online)
09:30 | Opening of the second conference day | |
09:30-10:30 | Keynote: Mountain leadership
What we can learn from experiences in the mountains Moderator: Harald Pechlaner (Eurac Research, Center for Advanced Studies) |
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10:30-10:45 | Coffee break | |
10:45 – 12:15 | Thematic session 2: Resilient communities and community resilience Moderator: Elisa Piras (Eurac Research, Center for Advanced Studies)
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12:15-14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00-15:00 | Keynote: Changing values and mountain narratives Designing complex transformation processes in mountain areas Speaker: Tobias Luthe, Sustainability researcher, Systems design scientist, Environmental Engineering and Landscape Planning at ETH ZurichModerator: Harald Pechlaner (Eurac Research, Center for Advanced Studies) |
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15:00-16:30 | Thematic session 3: Mountain leadership
Moderator: Mirjam Gruber (Eurac Research, Center for Advanced Studies)
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Thematic session 4: Changing values and mountain narratives
Moderator: Paola Fontanella Pisa (UNU-EHS and Eurac Research, GLOMOS)
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16:30-17:00 | Closing of the conference
Speakers: Harald Pechlaner (Eurac Research, Center for Advanced Studies), Stefan Schneiderbauer (UNU-EHS and Eurac Research, GLOMOS) |
Thematic sessions
Major thematic sessions of the GMS Forum 2022 are:
- Climate-related risks, related vulnerabilities and climate action
- Challenges of natural resource management and land-use (also between highlands and lowlands)
- Biodiversity and human-wildlife interaction
- Reconciling trade-offs between social, ecological and economic needs
- Resilience-building and adaptation strategies in mountain regions
- Local knowledge, cultural heritage and intergenerational responsibility
- Social innovation within and across mountain communities
- Aging at altitude: Solidarity and public health in mountain communities
- Digitalisation and hyper-connectedness vs. digital detox and slow lifestyles: A mountain perspective
- Mountain guides and lessons for leadership
- Mountain areas and their inhabitants as pioneers of change
- Mountain tourism and destination leadership
- Governance issues at the intersection of highlands and lowlands
- The history and future of human-mountain relations
- The dynamics of social norms and gender roles in mountain regions
- Aesthetics, perception and experience of mountain areas
- Reflecting wilderness and authenticity in the 21st century
- Ethics and values beyond anthropocentrism