Globalizing Polar Issues
High Altitudes meet High Latitudes
Lieu de l'événement
This conference addresses growing challenges and their consequences for fragile environments both in the high latitudes and high altitudes, focusing on the polar regions and the Alps.
It brings together researches from natural and social sciences to facilitate dialogue among experts with the aim of comparing observations from these regions, tracing causal chains, and connecting the global and local
scales of analysis. Problem-based issues such as biodiversity, urbanization, permafrost, health and risk management, structure the conference workshops. The conference’s emphasis on links between local and global processes, as well as its interdisciplinary approach, also enable the promotion of academic and public awareness on the climate change mechanisms impacting familiar and distant locations.
Organizer and Further Information
8 Wokshops about
• Water Resources
• Focus on Chemical Pollution • Tourism
• Paleogeography and Climate Change
• Evolution of Permafrost
• Ecology
• Ice and Snow
• Antarctic Circumnavigation
4 Round Tables about
• Security and Risk Management
• Arctic Resources
• Infrastructures
• Awareness
Scientific Excursion
Application and deadline
- Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2017
- Deadline for a Flash-talk presentation: September 5, 2017
- Co-organisateur·triceEPFL SB IPEP LPHE2