Community Policies and Mountain Areas: Proceedings of the Conference Organised by the European Commission

2002 was the International Year of Mountains. Across the world, events were held to promote abetter understanding of the significance of the mountains in historical, ecological, cultural andeconomic terms and to examine ways to encourage the sustainable development of mountains andmountain communities in the future. This was why we decided that the time was also ripe for a major European conference on Communitypolicies and the mountain areas, the first occasion of its kind to be organised by the EuropeanCommission.