Die FOK-SNP fördert und koordiniert Forschungsprojekte im Schweizerischen Nationalpark, im Regionalen Naturpark Val Müstair und in der Pflege- und Entwicklungszone des Biosphärenreservats Engiadina Val Müstair.mehr

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ESEH Conference 2023

With FoLAP/FoK/ISCAR panels

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Bern

The Institute of History and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research are proud to host the 12th Conference of the ESEH on 22.-26. August 2023 with the theme «Mountains and Plains: Past, present and future environmental and climatic entanglements». The conference is being held on behalf of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH). The FoLAP, FOK and ISCAR will organise two panels.

ESEH Conference
Bild: ESEH Conference

Since prehistoric times, mountain ranges all over the world have been a protective barrier and a place to be overcome. Transit deeply influenced the socio-economic structure of mountainous societies and enabled knowledge transfer. Mountains are «water castles» of the surrounding plains, and they play an important role for macro- and micro-scale weather conditions. The Alps were the first transnational mountain range that scholars examined in detail; and since the eighteenth century, they had been one of the most important places for tourism in Europe.

Numerous environmental challenges of the present and the future are also connected to mountains: the melting of glaciers; the availability of natural resources; increases in the number and magnitude of natural hazards; traffic and tourism; losses of cultural landscape ecosystems through rural depopulation; structural economic problems due to low income in agriculture and forestry; losses in biodiversity as a consequence of the maladaptation of state subsidies; losses of cultural and natural heritage. The great variety of topics at the conference will thus show the relevance of environmental history approaches (in a wider sense) for societies of the present and the future.

Panels by FoLAP, FoK and ISCAR

The Research Commission of the Swiss National Park (FoK), which is part of the Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks (FoLAP), and FoLAP will organise two panels:

FoK / FoLAP: On the history of nature conservation and rewilding in Switzerland and Europe in general.

The ISCAR (The International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps), which is affiliated to FoLAP, will organise the panel Past, present and future of mountain research networks.

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Registration is now open until 8 August 2023.

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Kategorien

  • Alpen
Childcare is offered.
Sprachen: Englisch