Mountain 2018 just started

Mountains 2018 started Monday, December 10, in Nova Friburgo, Brazil. The event, comprising the III Workshop on Sustainable Development in Mountain Environments and the II International Conference on Research for Sustainable Development in Mountains Regions, is the largest conference dedicated to mountains research and development ever organized in Brazil. CIMO and the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, organizers of Mountains 2016, the first edition of the event that took place in Bragança in 2016, are co-organizers of the 2018 edition with Embrapa, the main organizer, and several other institutions in Brazil and Scotland, and the Mountain partnership. The Iberian Mountain Research Network, the Portuguese Mountain Research Network and LuMont collaborate in the organization of the event. The major topics of the 2018 edition will be public policies in mountains and the connection of research to practice.