Programme

Tuesday 4 July

9:00 – 10:45

Opening Session

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 13:00

Thematic Session 1: Towards the Development of Sustainable Tourism–I

Thematic Session 2: Natural Disasters: the Ongoing Challenge for the Caucasus

Thematic Session 3: Towards the Development of Sustainable Tourism II

 

Thematic Session 4: Art, Culture, History, and Crafts: a potential of tourism promotion and Development

 

 

Workshop 1: Advancing Local Climate Action in the South Caucasus through Small Grants

 

Workshop 2: Near to real-time monitoring of forest stands to combat illegal logging in the Ukrainian Carpathians

13:00-14:30

Lunch / Presentation of Caucasus Environmental Outlook

14:30 – 16:15

Plenary Session 1: Tourism as the main livelihood for sustainable mountain development: Compatibility of Innovation and Tradition

16:15 – 16:45

Coffee break

 

16:45 – 18:30

Thematic Session 5: Towards the Development of Sustainable Tourism III

Thematic Session 6: Climate Change in the Caucasus

Thematic Session 7: Education for Sustainable Development

Thematic Session 8: Tourism Development Framework I

 

 

Workshop 3: Education for Sustainable Development: Tools and Stories of Mindset Transformation 

Workshop 4: Hazards Modeling and Mapping Practices in Georgia 

 

Wednesday 5 July

9:00 – 10:45

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

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 13:00

Thematic Session 9: Developing Ecotourism in the Caucasus

Thematic Session 10: Forest Ecosystems Management

Thematic Session 11: Agriculture: Economy, Safety, and Identity

 

 

 

Workshop 5-I: GEO Mountains Workshop: Interdisciplinary Monitoring, Data, and Capacity Sharing across the Caucasus

 

Workshop 6:    Protected Areas and Sustainable Mountain Development: What do we perceive when we observe a protected area?

13:00-14:30

Lunch 

14:30 – 16:15

Plenary session 3: Environmental Protection and Climate Change Response a Key Challenge for Developing Responsible Tourism Industry

16:15 – 16:45

Coffee break

16:45 – 18:30

Thematic Session 12: Tourism Development Framework II

Thematic Session 13: Landscape Transformation and land use change and human impacts on mountain ecosystem and Landscapes 

Thematic Session 14: Biodiversity: A Visiting Card of the Region

 

 

 

 

 

Workshop 5-II:
GEO Mountains Workshop: Interdisciplinary Monitoring, Data, and Capacity Sharing across the Caucasus

Workshop 7:
Promotion and application of humanitarian and social disciplines  with the Caucaus networks of scientists and practitioners

 

Thursday 6 July

 

9:00 – 10:45

Thematic Session 15: Exploring sustainable tourism opportunities

 

Thematic Session 16:     Adaptive Capacity and Vulnerability of Local Socio-economic Potential to climate change

 

 

Thematic Session 17: Water Resources

Thematic Session 18: Effects of natural disasters on tourism development

 

 

Workshop 8:
Role of SNC-mt in understanding the context for and application of transdisciplinary approaches in the Caucasus region

 

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee break

 

11:15 – 13:15

 

Poster session

Workshop 9:
Mountain Research & Development (MRD) journal: Caucasus Focus Issue

Workshop 10:
European Scientific Mountain Networks
(by invitation)

13:15 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:45

Closing session

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