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From the Alps to the Andes. Following our Interregional Training Course on Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Soil and Water Management in High Mountainous Regions we speak to two of its partici...

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# From the Alps to the Andes. Following our Interregional Training Course on Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Soil and Water Management in High Mountainous Regions we speak to two of its participants - Stefan Scheiderbaeur and Fabiana Mercado Blanco 

There is always a risk of "bad adaptation," that is, transferring techniques or measures from one area to another, but which can then have negative consequences. One example of this is reforestation.

We have a lot of different ecosystems that exist side by side, that's why we need to monitor them and involve the local community to know how to map these unique features and start working with us not only in the monitoring but in the protection of the beauty and the biology in these ecosystems. The communities need to be involved.


11 experts from mountain regions around the world - Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru - met in Bolzano from June 7 to 17, 2022, in the framework of the international training course. The aim was to familiarize the participants with the necessary tools as well as steps for planning adaptation measures to climate change at the regional and local level.

**Fabiana Mercado Blanco** is a Civil Engineer with Master Degrees from Fukushima University (Soil Erosion Due to Climate Change), La Escuela Abierta de Desarrollo en Ingeniería y Construcción (EADIC - UDIMA)Spain EXPLOTACION DE OBRAS HIDRAULICAS (Hydraulics Buildings Explotation).
She has been serving her home country Bolivia for the past ten years as an executive manager of a multiyear and multimillion-dollar Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building program funded by a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to the government of Bolivia, implemented by the Ministry of Environment and Water. Presently, Fabiana manages the Risk Assessment division of the Autonomous Government of La Paz in Bolivia. She designs, monitors, and implements programs for the implementation of resilience building and early warning systems focused on the Geo dynamic movements risks that occur on the steepest slopes of the city. Fabiana believes that every action we take has risks. Our role as world citizens is to find ways to minimize them and build resilience!
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**Stefan Schneiderbauer** is a geographer and has been working in the field of (climate) risk management in mountain areas for more than 20 years. He studied in Cologne, Berlin and Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium) and leads the GLOMOS program at the Eurac Research Center for the University of the UN, which supports the conservation and sustainable development of mountain areas worldwide.

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"Closing the gap between research and policy"

From the Alps to the Andes. Following our Interregional Training Course on Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Soil and Water Management in High Mountainous Regions we speak to two of its participants - Stefan Scheiderbaeur and Fabiana Mercado Blanco

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