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Boosting cross-alpine rail freight trafficThe Adriazug pilot project has been launched in a bid to reduce the burden of HGV traffic on transit routes through the Alps. |
NewsInternational Mobility & Transport |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Alpine Convention: concrete measures on behalf of the climateOn November 9 the environment ministers of the alpine states convened for the Alpine Conference, which is held every two years. |
NewsInternational |
Apr 03, 2007 |
New brochure on International Mountain PartnershipsThe Alpine Convention as such is not transferable to other regions. However many of its principles and the experience gained with the Alpine process in particular have proved of value to the sustainable development of non-alpine mountain regions. |
NewsInternational |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Know-how transfer within the Alps and beyondCIPRA, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps, is organising an international workshop series under the motto of "Circulating Knowledge - Networking People". |
NewsInternational |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Synthesis report: Utilising the value of Alpine landscapesThe Swiss National Fund Programme on "Landscapes and Habitats of the Alps" recently published its synthesis report (de/fr) on the research focus entitled "Land Use and Adding Values". |
NewsSwitzerland, International |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Trends in the mountain regions of Switzerland - the view of the locals on DVDTwo new ethnographic films have been released as part of the Swiss National Fund Programme on "Landscapes and Habitats in the Alps". |
NewsSwitzerland, International People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Rainfall can trigger earthquakesA new study shows causal links between rainfall and earth tremors. |
NewsFrance, International Soil quality, Water |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Climate-neutral winter holidays in ArosaIn co-operation with the company ClimatePartner the holiday region of Arosa/CH is the first resort in the Alps to offer climate-neutral winter holidays. |
NewsSwitzerland, International Tourism & Leisure, Climate |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Environmental management at campsites in South TyrolTwelve campsite operators in South Tyrol are planning to introduce an environmental management system as part of the Eco-camping Project. |
NewsSouth Tyrol, Italy, International Tourism & Leisure |
Apr 03, 2007 |
The Alps should become a model climate regionCIPRA, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps, is calling for an Alpine Convention (AC) action plan on climate protection. CIPRA has sent a letter to this effect to the Environment Ministers of the Alpine countries and the EU, who are meeting in Alpbach/A on 8 and 9 November for the 9th Alpine Conference. |
NewsInternational Climate |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Fertilizer use causes long-term disruption to alpine eco-systemsA study by the Swiss national research programme on "Landscapes and Habitats of the Alp" supports the assumption that alpine eco-systems do not react particularly flexibly to human intervention. |
NewsSwitzerland, International |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Festival of occupational diversity in mountain regionsThis year's international festival of "mountain professions" (Métiers de Montagne) is being held in Chambéry/F from 23 to 26 November. |
NewsFrance, International People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Conference proceedings on "Exploring the Nature of Management"The conference proceedings for the 3rd International Conference on the Monitoring and Management of Visitors Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas have just been published. |
NewsSwitzerland, International Nature |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Ecological wood-welding technology with a futureScientists from Switzerland and France have now developed a new joinery method called wood welding. |
NewsSwitzerland, International, France |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Results of the IPAM Project now publishedThe IPAM (Integrative Protected Area Management) Project co-financed by the EU focused on the exchange of experience and on methods and instruments of planning and management in protected areas. |
NewsInternational Nature |
Apr 03, 2007 |
King Albert Mountain Award an Werner BätzingLast week the King Albert I Memorial Foundation honoured seven mountain experts with golden awards. One of the Awards went to Germany's Werner Bätzing as a "leading expert on problems of the Alps as a whole". |
NewsSwitzerland, International |
Apr 03, 2007 |
New handbook on sustainable agriculture in the AlpsThe new "Guidelines for promoting sustainable agriculture in Alpine mountain regions" in four languages (de/fr/it/en) contains numerous recommendations for the planning and implementation of projects and measures aimed at promoting sustainable agriculture in Alpine mountain regions. |
NewsInternational Agriculture |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Conference publication with findings of the AlpWeek 2004"The Alps of the Next Generation" was the theme of the AlpWeek 2004 held in Kranjska Gora/SI, a conference which looked at ways of finding solution approaches to current problems and staged a number of scientific discussions. |
NewsSlovenia, International |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Delimitation of the Carpathian Convention area - Pilot studyDie Europäische Akademie in Bozen/I publizierte kürzlich eine englischsprachige Pilotstudie zur Implementierung internationaler Berggebietskonventionen. |
NewsSouth Tyrol, Italy, International |
Apr 03, 2007 |
alpKnowhow knowledge baseThe alpKnowhow knowledge base is now available here. For each of the six topics a work report, examples of best practice and a range of publications are provided in English. A cross-topic synthesis report complete with two appendices has also been compiled. |
NewsInternational |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Cross-border network of Caucasian mountain villagesMountain communities in the Caucasus have adopted a memorandum aimed at establishing a cross-border community network modelled on the "Alliance in the Alps". |
NewsGermany, International |
Apr 03, 2007 |
New publication on the Eurovignette directiveThe EU's revised Eurovignette directive, which is to harmonise the rules governing road tolls for lorries, has been in force since June 2006, and a new publication takes a detailed look at it. |
NewsInternational Mobility & Transport |
Apr 03, 2007 |
New publication: Alps : points of viewA new illustrated book documents the different views of local populations on life in the Alps. |
NewsInternational People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Sondrio is the 2007 Alpine Town of the YearIn August Sondrio/I was officially awarded the title of 2007 Alpine Town of the Year. The award pays tribute to Sondrio's commitment to enhancing the municipality's ecological, cultural and tourist status. |
NewsItaly, International |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Alpine protected areas: a new international agency in ChambéryThe administration of the Network of Alpine Protected Areas (ALPARC) was transferred to the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention (AK) by the French government on 10 July 2006 |
NewsInternational Nature |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Ice-free Alps just a matter of decades?A new study by the Glaciology and Geomorphodynamics Research Group led by glaciologist Michael Zemp of the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich/CH provides real figures on the past, present and potential future glacier cover in the Alps. |
NewsInternational Climate |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Switzerland: NEAT costs have doubledMore than 600 participants from all over Europe recently convened in Lucerne/CH for this year's Swiss Tunnel Congress to find out more about the state of progress with the New Alps Transversal Route, or Neat. |
NewsSwitzerland, International Mobility & Transport |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Future research and transnational cooperation in the AlpsThe June issue of the Journal of alpine research bears the title "Future research and transnational cooperation in the Alps". Four contributions in two languages (French and English) are devoted to this theme. |
NewsInternational Spatial development |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Know-how for the Alps onlineWithin the project "Future in the Alps" of the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps CIPRA, experts have collected, prepared and put on the web exhaustive knowledge about sustainable development in the Alps. With this, the part of the project called "alpKnowHow" has been completed, and the extensive knowledge base is online at www.cipra.org/zukunft . |
NewsInternational |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Austria: Federation money for the implementation of the Alpine ConventionIn Austria the Federation recognises the potential of the Alpine Convention (AC) and, in the future, it will directly fund its implementation. So far, the AC was often considered as pure "prohibition law". Recently it has found access in the Austrian Federation programme for country development. |
NewsAustria, International |
Apr 03, 2007 |