He is also Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development, in recognition of his global role in mountainresearch and knowledge exchange.
"But, ' adds Mel Reasoner, Director of the MountainResearch Initiative, "in many arid and semi-arid areas, people are dependent not only on the amount of glacier melt water, but on the timing of the water flow.
In a partnership with the MountainResearch Initiative (MRI) based in Berne (Switzerland), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), UNESCO is selecting biosphere reserve sites from each of the major mountainous regions of the world as the focus for this new global climate change monitoring programme.