The Network was approved by the ESF Network Group in November 2002 for a three-year period.
The Chairman was Professor Charles Harris, Cardiff University.

The Network focuses on the environmental impact of global warming and of melting of permafrost in the arctic and mountainous regions, that can cause subsidence in arctic lowlands and slope instability in mountains, with increasing of risk of avalanches and landslides.

The dossier contains correspondence on the establishment of the Network: proposal and research assessments; summary report, 2003.
It contains correspondence on the organisation of meetings and workshops, with attached documents (reports, programmes): first Coordination Committee meeting, held in Strasbourg, on 21-22 March 2003 (agenda and attached documents); Euromargins project leaders meeting, held in Nice, on 8 April 2003; workshop on "Permafrost processes and process response to climate forcing", held in Zurich, on 20-25 July 2003; Coordination Committee meeting and workshop, held in Tyumen, Russia, on 21-28 May 2004 (report and correspondence); field workshop on "Permafrost geomorphological systems in a changing global climate", held in Svalbard, on 6-11 Sep 2004 (correspondence, programme); second European Permafrost Conference, held in Potsdam, on 12-16 June 2005 (final report, list of participants); Coordination Committee meeting, held in Cardiff, on 12-14 Dec 2005; final report.

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