#SustainableMountainDevelopment

The United Nations General Assembly designated 11 December “International Mountain Day”. As of 2003, it has been observed every year to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development...

It is with pleasure that we invite you to Mountain Futures, an innovative conference on mountains in the Anthropocene, to take place from 1–4 March 2016 in Kunming, Yunnan, China.

The conference is different in that it seeks to collect and nurture seeds of a positive...

Ambitious new agenda would end poverty by 2030 and universally promote shared economic prosperity, social development and environmental protection

The 193 Member States of the United Nations reached agreement today on the outcome document that will...

The Mountain Research Initiative requests your help in identifying recent evidence-based assessments of mountain areas that address, directly or obliquely, sustainable mountain development (SMD).

By "evidence-based assessment" we mean "based on data". By "...

The importance of engaging stakeholders at all levels has been repeatedly recognized at past international conferences, and throughout global conversations on the preparations for the post-2015 development agenda. The Rio+20 Conference, as one example, showed enhanced inclusiveness in...

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