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Value based decision making process for strategic visitor management in the Natura 2000 area Lech River Valley, Tyrol

How to develop a Sustainable Energy Action Plan

Action Plan on Climate Change in the Alps

The Action Plan following the Ministers' Declaration of Alpbach rests on the joint commitments taken by the Alpine countries which fall under the Framework Convention on climate change and the Kyoto Protocol. This Action Plan is part of the ongoing discussions to reach a comprehensive and ambitious post-2012 agreement and takes into account the commitments made in this regard by the European Union. Its aim is to go beyond the general framework to offer concrete measures that are specific to the Alps by promoting, both in terms of mitigation and adaptation, themes and measures that could be the subject of regional co-operations in the frame of the Alpine Convention, and by taking into account actions that are already in place on a national, regional and local level. The Action Plan on Climate contributes to both the global effort aiming at reducing greenhouse effect following international commitments by the Contracting Parties and to the quality of life of Alpine populations for present and future generations.

Global Glacier Changes: facts and figures

Climate Change and Tourism – Responding to Global Challenges

Managing Change in Tourism: Creating Opportunities - Overcoming Obstacles

Mountains of the World – Ecosystem Services in a Time of Global and Climate Change

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector: Frameworks, Tools and Practices

Climate change in the Alps Facts - Impacts - Adaptation

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

Guiding principles for adaptation to climate change in Europe

On thin ice

Climatic warming disrupts recurrent Alpine insect outbreaks

Safe passages

Guidelines for regional, interregional and cross-border development strategies creating ecological corridors

Only climate-friendly tourism is sustainable: cc.alps - CIPRA’s demands for tourism in climate change

Climate change is a major challenge to Alpine tourism. It has to adapt to climate change and at the same time become more climate-friendly. There is a particularly large potential for reduction of CO2 emissions in the key areas of traffic and energy. Tourism is a branch of the economy which is heavily subsidized. Therefore public policy can and must direct developments towards sustainability through the support given to tourism. The present discussion about developments in the tourism industry is dominated by the large chair lift companies which are essentially fixed on ski tourism and the maintenance of the status quo. But focusing only on snow and skiing means promoting a capital-intensive, highly technological form of Alpine tourism and a monoculture. This is neither climatologically nor environmentally sustainable.

Sustainable Alps: Architecture Prize Awarded

Constructive, the Alpine-wide architecture award for sustainable construction and renovation has been presented to three architects and developers. Three further projects are euqally to be commended.

The bear's about!

Clearly the big omnivore feels at home in the Trentino/I. A total of 27 bears were counted there last year, compared with a mere three or four in the 1990s. Meanwhile ten Slovenian bears have settled in the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park as part of the "Life Ursus" campaign.

Changing forests

The seminar titled Forestry and Climate Change - Thinking One Step Ahead! looks at the consequences of global warming on the timber industry, forestry and its functions. What sort of strategies are needed to ensure the sustainable development of the forest within the context of regional development?

Tourism in climate change

Planet Austria

The energy report

Mountain regions as referents for collective action

The Alps

Idrija is the Alpine Town of the Year 2011

The label for sustainable development was awarded to the Slovenian town of Idrija for its commitment to climate protection among other initiatives. The "Alpine Town Year" was ceremoniously inaugurated in February.

Olympic bid by Annecy: repercussions underestimated

French environmental protection agencies have said that the "impact of the Olympic Games on the environment are widely underestimated in the application documents".

Publication: The Alps in 2010

The new publication titled The Alps by the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention provides a comprehensive overview of the Alps, including a wealth of cartographic material. For over a thousand years the Alpine landscape has been used as a cultural landscape.

Spatial Planning and Alpine Space in Climate Change

Challenges for Mountain Regions