2012-05-20, Estes Park, Building Resilience of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems to Global Change

The Mountain Research Initiative will bring together a small number of leading researchers to participate in a synthesis workshop, Building Resilience of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems to Global Change, to examine these challenges for mountain regions. Under the leadership of Julia Klein (Colorado State University) and Anne Nolin (Oregon State University) the workshop will take place 21 May 2012 in Estes Park, Colorado.

FOCUS

Workshop participants who are conducting social-ecological research and coupled human-natural system modeling in mountain regions around the world will explore

  • The nature and utility of the various coupled models currently in use,
  • The expression of system attributes such as resilience, sustainability, and adaptive capacity in terms of model inputs, variables, and outputs, and
  • Emerging themes across studies on resilience of coupled social-ecological mountain systems to global change.

For more information on the workshop please consult the synthesis workshop concept note.

PRODUCTS

This workshop will produce

  • A state-of-the-science paper on social-ecological mountain systems and future directions for the field, and
  • A grant proposal to the US National Science Foundation for an international Research Coordination Network project.

APPLICATION

If you would like to participate in this workshop, please send both

  • Your complete CV with current contact information, and
  • A description (~300 words) of how you could contribute to the objectives of the workshop (be explicit!), with particular mention of the mountain regions where you are now doing or have conducted your research,

to MRI's Communication and Event Manager by 15 July 2011. Please mention the Resilience of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems synthesis workshop in the subject line.

Note: If you wish to participate, then you also are agreeing to provide a high level of participation prior to, during, and after the workshop, particularly in the drafting of the synthesis article and proposal. We don't call them workshops for nothing!

MRI will fund the workshop travel costs and expenses of participants.

PARTICIPANTS

The list of final workshop participants is available here. (N.B. a pdf of the participant list once establshed)

GROUP

MRI created a Group whereby Workshop participants can access logistic information, programs and background material.