The outcome will provide rationales and guidelines for researchers, research managers, policy makers, as well as funding agencies.

This strategic workshop aims at putting research topics on mountain ecosystem services on the political agenda and identifies the implications of climate and socioeconomic change for current and future forms of land use. The workshop assesses the impact on selected ecosystem services such as hazard protection, recreation, and natural resources. Furthermore, scenarios of change and its implication for societies depending on these ecosystem services are appraised.

The following topics are treated as cross-cutting issues and will be discussed in detail:

• Multifunctional land use in a global change context
• Challenges for sustainable tourism
• Demand and evaluation of ecosystem services
• Water: strategic resource, public good, ecosystem
• Sustainable transport
• Scenarios of global change