The Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE), Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully organized the first and second International Conference on Mountain Environment and Development (ICMED) held in 2002 and 2012 in Chengdu, China. IMHE is now organizing the 3rd ICMED to be held alongside with the 33rd International Geographical Congress of IGU on August 21-25, 2015 in Beijing, China. This conference will provide an opportunity to enhance the academic exchanges on mountain environment and development, discuss the future of mountain research. 

Time: August 21-25, 2016 

Avenue: Beijing, China 

Theme: Future Mountain Development 

Main topics: 

(1) Mountain security – disaster mitigation and prevention 

(2) Mountain ecology – service function 

(3) Mountain environment- harmony between human and nature 

(4) Mountain development – livelihood and settlement 

(5) Climate Change- impact, adaptation, countermeasure 

(6) Theory and techniques of mountain research (observation, experiment, remote sensing, modeling and scenario analysis)  

Contact person: Ms Hu Ying 

Tel: 028-85237507 

Fax: 028-85222258 

Emai：huying@imde.ac.cn