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MOUNTAIN GENIUS
The Mountain Hub
is a brand and a project aimed at collecting the know-how related to research, management, and protection of mountain areas
It’s a project aimed at:
- Promoting SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH in the mountains
- Producing and COLLECTING scientific DATA
- Representing the instances of mountain territories to ENTITIES AND INSTITUTIONS
- Implementing advisory actions and DECISION SUPPORT
- Implementing and managing SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT projects
- Developing information, training, communication, and DISSEMINATION projects and events
Mountain Genius è un progetto promosso da EvK2Minoprio in collaborazione con diversi Enti ed Imprese.
Mountains
Ecosystems to be preserved
for the protection of the entire planet
Mountains are unanimously recognized as “sentinels of environmental changes”: they respond rapidly and deeply to climatic and environmental modifications and can lose essential ecosystem services, menacing the well-being of people depending on high-altitude resources.
of world’s land surface is covered by mountains
of global population lives in the mountains
billion of people depend on mountain water resources
of freshwater resources are provided by mountains
of the world’s irrigation is supported by mountain water flows
of the world’s biodiversity hotspots are located in the mountains
of terrestrial biological diversity derives from mountain ecosystems
of world’s natural and cultural heritages are located in the mountains
of global tourism is represented by mountain tourism
