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Tuesday 4 July
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9:00 – 10:45
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Opening Session
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10:45-11:15
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Coffee break
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11:15 – 13:00
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Thematic Session 1: Towards the Development of Sustainable Tourism–I
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Thematic Session 2: Natural Disasters: the Ongoing Challenge for the Caucasus
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Thematic Session 3: Towards the Development of Sustainable Tourism II
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Thematic Session 4: Art, Culture, History, and Crafts: a potential of tourism promotion and Development
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Workshop 1: Advancing Local Climate Action in the South Caucasus through Small Grants
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Workshop 2: Near to real-time monitoring of forest stands to combat illegal logging in the Ukrainian Carpathians
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13:00-14:30
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Lunch / Presentation of Caucasus Environmental Outlook
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14:30 – 16:15
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Plenary Session 1: Tourism as the main livelihood for sustainable mountain development: Compatibility of Innovation and Tradition
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16:15 – 16:45
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Coffee break
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16:45 – 18:30
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Thematic Session 5: Towards the Development of Sustainable Tourism III
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Thematic Session 6: Climate Change in the Caucasus
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Thematic Session 7: Education for Sustainable Development
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Thematic Session 8: Tourism Development Framework I
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Workshop 3: Education for Sustainable Development: Tools and Stories of Mindset Transformation
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Workshop 4: Hazards Modeling and Mapping Practices in Georgia
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Wednesday 5 July
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9:00 – 10:45
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Plenary Session 2: Inter- and Transdisciplinary approaches in landscapes protection and mountain tourism development: Role of Scientists in Research, Planning, and Development. Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Nugzar Zazanashvili, Conservation Director of WWF Caucasus
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10:45-11:15
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Coffee break
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11:15 – 13:00
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Thematic Session 9: Developing Ecotourism in the Caucasus
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Thematic Session 10: Forest Ecosystems Management
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Thematic Session 11: Agriculture: Economy, Safety, and Identity
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Workshop 5-I: GEO Mountains Workshop: Interdisciplinary Monitoring, Data, and Capacity Sharing across the Caucasus
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Workshop 6: Protected Areas and Sustainable Mountain Development: What do we perceive when we observe a protected area?
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13:00-14:30
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Lunch
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14:30 – 16:15
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Plenary session 3: Environmental Protection and Climate Change Response a Key Challenge for Developing Responsible Tourism Industry
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16:15 – 16:45
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Coffee break
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16:45 – 18:30
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Thematic Session 12: Tourism Development Framework II
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Thematic Session 13: Landscape Transformation and land use change and human impacts on mountain ecosystem and Landscapes
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Thematic Session 14: Biodiversity: A Visiting Card of the Region
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Workshop 5-II:
GEO Mountains Workshop: Interdisciplinary Monitoring, Data, and Capacity Sharing across the Caucasus
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Workshop 7:
Promotion and application of humanitarian and social disciplines with the Caucaus networks of scientists and practitioners
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Thursday 6 July
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9:00 – 10:45
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Thematic Session 15: Exploring sustainable tourism opportunities
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Thematic Session 16: Adaptive Capacity and Vulnerability of Local Socio-economic Potential to climate change
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Thematic Session 17: Water Resources
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Thematic Session 18: Effects of natural disasters on tourism development
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Workshop 8:
Role of SNC-mt in understanding the context for and application of transdisciplinary approaches in the Caucasus region
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10:45 – 11:15
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Coffee break
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11:15 – 13:15
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Poster session
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Workshop 9:
Mountain Research & Development (MRD) journal: Caucasus Focus Issue
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Workshop 10:
European Scientific Mountain Networks
(by invitation)
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13:15 – 14:00
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Lunch
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14:00 – 15:45
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Closing session
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| 7-8 JULY |
SVANETI FIELD SESSION |
