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4 March 2009

Professor Nigel Tapper

Monash University's Professor Nigel Tapper, head of the School of Geography and Environmental Science, is closely involved with a project to conserve a national park and World Heritage-listed area that is in danger of being ‘loved to death' by two million visitors a year.

The area comprises five fishing villages along 15 kilometres of rugged Ligurian coast, in North West Italy, and a hinterland known for its cultivation of wine grapes and olives.

Professor Tapper, one of eight Monash scientists who shared in the 2007 Nobel peace prize for their work on climate change, negotiated an agreement in 2004 between Monash and the Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre to assist in the conservation of the area.

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