Day

Topic

Teacher

9 July

Chairperson: Piotr Kowalik
(Gdansk University)

The IPROMO programme and its role in promoting sustainable mountain development

Rosalaura Romeo
(FAO - Mountain Partnership Secretariat)

Global and Regional Agreements for the conservation of biological and landscape diversity in mountains

Pier Carlo Sandei
(UNEP)

UNCEM presentation

Lido Riba
(UNCEM)

10 July

Planetary Boundaries

Chairperson: Piotr Kowalik
All participants

12 July

Soil and biodiversity

Guido Trivellini
(WWF Italia)

13 July

Transboundary mountain protected areas

Zbigniew Niewiadomski
(Bieszczady National Park)

14 July

Field Trip (Val d'Otro)
and lecture
Livestock biodiversity in Mediterranean mountains

Renzo Motta - Luca Battaglini
(University of Turin)

15 July

Mountain biodiversity in tropical ecosystems

Dunia Hurrego
(Florida Institute of Tecnology)

16 July

Significance of biodiversity: ecological value

Giorgio Buffa
(University of Turin)

General view of the lectures

Piotr Kowalik
(Polytechnical University of Gdansk)

17 July

Biodiversity at high elevation on the Alps

Michele Freppaz - Angelo Caimi (University of Turin)

19 July

Biodiversity in the Mediterranean mountains

Renzo Motta
(University of Turin)

20 July

Mountain soils biodiversity

Ciro Gardi
(Joint Research Centre)

Biodiversity and nutrition

Barbara Burlingame
(FAO)

21 July

Forestry, wood production and biodiversity

Ruth Noguerón (World Resources Institute, Forest landscape Initiative)

22 July

Climate change and mountain biodiversity

Ricardo Villalba - Alejandro Casteller (Argentine Institute for Snow, Ice and Environmental Research - IANIGLACONICET)

Piotr Kowalik (Polytechnical University of Gdansk)

23 July

Mediterranean biodiversity

Field trip