Abstract
The Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) is the University of Bern's center for sustainable development research. Founded in 1988 as a part of the Institute of Geography, CDE became an interdisciplinary university center in 2009. Its current overall aim is to foster sustainable development-oriented research across various institutes and departments of the University of Bern. In view of this new mandate, CDE devised a new strategy focusing on 6 strategic themes. These are explored and advanced by groups of researchers organized in thematic clusters. Three of the 6 clusters address sustainable development from a comprehensive perspective: global change impacts, innovations for sustainable development, and education for sustainable development. These clusters are complemented by 3 clusters that investigate sustainable development with a specialized perspective: natural resources and ecosystem services, multidimensional disparities, and governance of land and natural resources.
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Mountain Research and Development (MRD) An international, peer-reviewed open access journal published by the International Mountain Society (IMS) www.mrd-journal.org
Three of the 6 clusters address sustainable development from a comprehensive perspective: global change impacts, innovations for sustainable development, and education for sustainable development. These clusters are complemented by 3 clusters that investigate sustainable development with a specialized perspective: natural resources and ecosystem services, multidimensional disparities, and governance of land and natural resources
Summary
The Mountain Agenda of CDE is based on a global network of organizations active in mountain research and development, including the Mountain Partnership and its secretariat in Rome, and key donors, such as the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and many others in all major mountain regions. CDE was involved in the preparation of regional and global reports on the status and challenges of mountain development to be presented at Rio, in providing language for the zero draft of the Rio outcome document, and participating in the core group that organized the World Mountain Conference in Lucerne in October 2011, which was instrumental in again putting mountains on the agenda for Rio 2012 These activities were successful, because mountains are explicitly mentioned in the zero draft, but greater efforts are needed. In Madagascar, CDE is currently engaged in the uplands, with a focus on monitoring rural afforestation over the last 30 years Such as the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), SDC, and the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI). To find out more about WOCAT activities, visit www.wocat. net
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