Martin Price

Martin Price is Director of the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College, within the UHI Millennium Institute, Scotland, UK. He previously worked at the University of Oxford; the University of Bern, Switzerland; the International Centre for Alpine Environments, France; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA.

He is chairman of the Board of the European Mountain Forum and the Mountain Initiative Taskforce of IUCN-The World Conservation Union. From 1996-2000, he coordinated the Task Force on Forests in Sustainable Mountain Development of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO).

His close involvement in the formulation and implementation of Chapter 13 - "Protecting Fragile Ecosystems: Sustainable Mountain Development" - of Agenda 21 has included preparing chapters on tourism and climate change in the 1997 state-of-knowledge assessment "Mountains of the World: A Global Priority"; reviewing the implementation of Chapter 13 for FAO; and assisting with preparations for the Bishkek Global Mountain Summit, the final global event of the International Year of Mountains, 2002.

He has written or edited 10 books and over 100 reports, papers, and articles on mountain issues. Since 1994, he has been Book Review/MountainMedia Editor of the quarterly journal 'Mountain Research and Development'.

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