The field camp involves exploration and research components. Students explore the biophysical, human, and resource geography east of the Cascade crest through field observation, discussion, presentations, and readings. This Symposium aims to solve the problems of how to increase the area of sustainable managed forests, how to slow down the rate of deforestation in the tropics, how to diminish forest degradation world-wide and how to increase the global area of trees and forests by means of forestation and reforestation, especially in degraded land. The main objective of the conference is an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary transformations of settlement systems in mountainous regions in relation with their geopolitical role, political and administrative division, ethnocultural situation and economic processes. This international interdisciplinary congress will deal with the conservation of biodiversity in the Andes and Amazon Basin with focus on the countries Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches.
Glacier International Writers Workshop Sessions include discussions and workshops on creative non- fiction in nature writing, public policy and the pen, demystifying science and much more. Field trips on global climate change, wildlife restoration projects, bear ecology, invasive species, etc. The conference will summarize the current state of knowledge concerning these interactions on multiple spatial and temporal scales, and at different levels of ecological complexity. Aiming to promote the international cooperation on agricultural science and technology. Currently planners are trying to guage world wide interest in bamboo conservation issues.