Download - Mountain Research Initiative

Researchers with an interest in African mountains attending the Perth III conference in
Scotland, October 2015
Name
Institution
Country
Title of presentation
Mr Luke Bently
Rhodes
University
South Africa
Climate change and its effects on plant
distribution in South Africa's mountains.
Prof Willem
Ferguson
University of
Pretoria
South Africa
Mr Gavin Heath
University of
KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
Prof Fabia Huesler
World Glacier
Monitoring
Service
Makerere
University
Switzerland
Ms Susan Janse
van Rensburg
South African
Observation
Network
South Africa
Mr Gileard Minja
Mwenge
Catholic
University
University of
the Free State
Tanzania
Laboratoire
Environnement
Dynamiques et
TErritoires de la
Montagne
(EDYTEM)
University of
Pretoria
France
The Drakensberg mountains as a source of
essential ecosystem services for local
communities
The views of a selected mountain user group
towards the suitability of a cableway
development in the northern Drakensberg
range, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
Satellite-based snow monitoring in Lesotho to
support sustainable water resource
management
Urban Hierarchies and Processes of Urban
Transformation in Mountain regions: Studies in
Mt. Elgon in Uganda
The Cathedral Peak Research Catchments Long
term Global Change monitoring platform:
Towards understand the future of South Africa's
water tower
Ecological and Socio-economic Implication of
Climate Change and Variability on Tourism in
Kilimanjaro Mountain National Park, Tanzania
Losing ground: The environmental impact of
Acacia mearnsii invasion on the MalotiDrakensberg mountains in South Africa.
Tourism, Collective Identities and Social Change
in African Mountains. Case studies from the
Moroccan Atlas and Nigerian Aïr.
Amhara
Agricultural
Research
Institute
International
Assistance for
Community
Development(N
ACOD)
Gent University
Ethiopia
Dr Paul Isolo
Mukwaya
Prof Geofrey
Mukwada
Dr Mari Oiry
Varacca
Dr Susan Jean
Taylor
Dr Abrham Abiyu
Mr David Anokye
Asamoah
Mr Tesfaalem
Ghebreyohannes
Asfaha
Uganda
South Africa
South Africa
Selecting Sustainable Mountain Development
(SMD) indicators to track all three elements of
sustainable development in African
mountainous countries
Evaluating some shrubs for forest restoration
and enhanced ecosystem services in northwest
Ethiopia
Ghana
Water -thrifty multipurpose perennials for
sustainable planting in mountain, arid and
saline
Belgium
Assessing hydrological implications of
rehabilitating steep mountain catchments using
peak discharge analysis – the case of the Rift
Valley escarpment of Northern Ethiopia
Prof Vincent
Ralph Clark
Rhodes
University
South Africa
Dr Abdeltif El
Quahrani
University
Abdelmalek
Essaâdi
University of
Nairobi
Morocco
Alexandria
University
Faculty of
Science
University of
Bayreuth
Egypt
Germany
Kilimanjaro under global change
Mr Miro Jacol
Ghent
University
Belgium
Dr Tino Johansson
Kenya
Mrs Faridah
Halwanga
International
Centre of Insect
Physiology and
Ecology (ICIPE)
Makerere
University
Are afro-alpine tropical treelines subjected to
climate change? Findings from a 50-year record
from the Northern Ethiopian highlands
Small-scale Farmers' Vulnerability and
Adaptation Strategies to Climatic Risks in the
Highlands of Eastern Africa
Uganda
Commuting Patterns and Resource Flows IN Mt.
Elgon Uganda and Mt. Kilimanjaro Tanzania
Mr Dominique
Mvanabandi
University of
Twente
Rwanda
Dr Bob Nakileza
Makerere
University,
Department of
Geography,
Geo-informatics
and Climatic
Sciences
Laboratory of
Applied Ecology
Uganda
Eastern Chimpanzee's habitat fragmentation in
the mountainous landscape of Nyungwe
National Park (NNP), Rwanda
Long-term socio-ecological observatory in
Uganda
Benin
Spatial evaluation of soil erosion risk in the
Atacora Moutain Benin, West Africa
IUCN - Eastern
and Southern
Africa Regional
Programme
Institut
Scientifique,
Université
Mohammed VRabat
University of
Nigeria
Kenya
Building resilience to climate change on Mt.
Elgon: Ecosystem-based adaptation measures,
an IUCN experience
Morocco
Flora and forest ecosystems in Morocco:
diversity, threat and conservation
Nigeria
Amhara
Regional
Agricultural
Research
Institute
Ethiopia
Housing development as a leading factor to
Degradation of Hills in Enugu Metropolis,
Nigeria.
Spatial and temporal analysis of management
impacts on ecosystem services - scenario
modelling in a highland watershed of northwest
Ethiopia
Mr George Otieno
Dr Marwa Halmy
Dr Andreas Hemp
Prof Farris Okou
Mr John Owino
Dr Mohammed
Sghir Taleb
Mr Bethel Ukazu
Dr Menale
Wondie
Kenya
Biodiversity exploration as fundamental to
assessing future change in a mega-biodiverse
region - examples from southern Africa's Great
Escarpment.
Detection of climate change in Alpine
Environment using Climate type classification
The Dynamics of East African Climate and the
Suitability of crop Mapping over the
Mountainous regions in a changing climate
Assessing the risk of invasion by Prosopis
juliflora in Gebel Elba mountain area