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Microplastics in the AlpsPlastic pollution continues to threaten our health and our most precious landscapes. The latest findings show that microplastics can even be found on the highest Alpine peaks. |
NewsInternational Nature, People, Soil quality |
Jan 13, 2025 |
Nature-based solutions and their governance structures in the Alpine regionIn view of the global challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, the use of nature-based solutions (NbS) is becoming increasingly important. On behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency, ifuplan (lead) and CIPRA International are preparing a report on “Nature-based solutions and governance structures in the Alpine region”. The aim of the report is to analyse the potential of various NbS in the Alpine region and the governance mechanisms behind them that ensure their success. Based on this, their transferability to other Alpine regions will be analysed and recommendations for action formulated. |
CIPRA ProjectInternational Climate, Soil quality, Spatial development, Nature, Forest, Water |
Aug 22, 2024 |
Desealing land in the Alpine regionSoils are among our most important resources. CIPRA's new project, entitled Ground:breaking, shows why desealing land is of benefit to everyone and what is needed at political, legal and local levels in the Alpine region to achieve this. |
NewsInternational Soil quality |
Oct 05, 2023 |
Ground:breakingSoils are among the most important resources we have. CIPRA's new Ground:breaking project shows why desealing land benefits everyone and what is needed at political, legal and local level in the Alpine region to achieve this. |
CIPRA ProjectInternational, Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia, Germany Soil quality, Nature |
Aug 31, 2023 |
No glacier marriage in TyrolFinally it’s official: the plans for the world’s largest glacier ski area are history. In November 2022, the Tyrolean federal state government rejected the planned merger of the glacier ski areas in Austria’s Ötztal and Pitztal valleys. |
NewsAustria Alpine Politics, Tourism & Leisure, Nature, Soil quality |
Jan 27, 2023 |
Point of view: Let’s create an “Alpine Plan” for all Alpine regions!The Bavarian Alpine Plan celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022. Alpine spatial planning has proven here that it is predestined to find solutions to the pressing issues of the day. Similar planning instruments are lacking in many Alpine regions, although we need them more urgently than ever, claim Paul Kuncio, Executive Director of CIPRA Austria, and Uwe Roth, Executive Director of CIPRA Germany. |
NewsInternational, Germany, Austria Alpine Politics, Soil quality, Spatial development |
Oct 26, 2022 |
Heatwave aggravated by soil sealingAll of Europe is currently groaning under the heat – and the growing numbers of concreted-over areas are heating up the environment even more. In a background report, CIPRA's Saving:Soils project shows good examples and solutions for the sustainable use of soil and summarises current strategies in the Alpine countries. |
NewsInternational Soil quality, Spatial development |
Aug 16, 2022 |
Save land, save soilWhat do we need for a turnaround in land management in peri-urban areas? |
CIPRA PublicationInternational Alpine Politics, Soil quality, Spatial development |
Aug 09, 2022 |
Using less soilPuy-Saint-André in the French Alps has reduced the buildable municipal area by confiscating "ownerless" land, is saving space thanks to community housing projects and promoting the supply of local food by means of pasture associations. |
Good practiceFrance Soil quality, Agriculture, Spatial development, People |
Jul 19, 2022 |
Rebuild instead of buildThe Austrian municipality of Zwischenwasser on the edge of the Rhine valley is rebuilding instead of building – and doing so at the highest architectural level. |
Good practiceAustria, International People, Soil quality, Energy, Spatial development |
Jul 19, 2022 |
Lively mountain villageThe village of Valendas in the Swiss canton of Graubünden shows how citizens can revive their village architecturally and culturally. |
Good practiceInternational, Switzerland People, Soil quality, Spatial development |
Jul 19, 2022 |
Roads on a dietCarinthia/A relies on unsealing and is narrowing kilometres of federal roads. Now they are flanked by green strips and cycle paths. |
Good practiceInternational, Austria Soil quality, Spatial development, Mobility & Transport |
Jul 19, 2022 |
Affordable primary residencesSecond homes notwithstanding, the municipality of Zermatt/CH wants to secure affordable housing for the local population. |
Good practiceInternational, Switzerland People, Soil quality, Spatial development |
Jul 19, 2022 |
Climate-fit mountain regionsThe "AdaPT Mont-Blanc" project uses a digital toolbox to show what measures are available for adapting to climate change at the spatial planning level. |
Good practiceInternational, France, Italy, Switzerland People, Soil quality, Spatial development |
Jul 19, 2022 |
Remain rural and affordableHow the German municipality of Weyarn, close to the city, protects its soil, promotes affordable housing and creates a higher quality of life. |
Good practiceInternational, Germany People, Soil quality, Spatial development, Mobility & Transport |
Jul 19, 2022 |
Making vacancies visibleThe "Plattform Land" draws attention to vacancies in South Tyrolean pilot communities and shows how they can make good use of empty properties. |
Good practiceInternational, Italy People, Soil quality, Spatial development |
Jul 19, 2022 |
Alpine soils: allies in climate protectionThe soils of the Alps make a decisive contribution to climate protection. But intensive land use and rising temperatures are endangering them: not only are they losing their valuable function as carbon reservoirs, but they may even become a source of greenhouse gases themselves. |
NewsInternational Soil quality, Climate, Nature |
May 05, 2022 |
Saving land, saving soilIn the Alps and beyond, land is built up every day and valuable soils are lost. The project "Saving:Soils" shows alternatives and develops solutions together with pilot regions. |
NewsInternational Nature, Soil quality |
Jan 24, 2022 |
Eco.mont special issue: Biosphere Reserves in Mountain RegionsOn the occasion of 50 years Man and the Biosphere Programme the Austrian MAB National Committee has organized and financed a special issue on Biosphere Reserves in Mountain Regions in eco.mont. The special issue contains 16 articles from four out of five MAB regions. |
PublicationInternational, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, South Tyrol, Switzerland Alpine Politics, Nature, Water, Soil quality, Spatial development |
Dec 13, 2021 |
Saving:Soils[Project completed] With its project “Saving:Soils”, CIPRA is working for a trend reversal in the use of land in peri-urban areas in order to put scientific findings into practice, make pilot examples visible and encourage imitation. |
CIPRA ProjectInternational Soil quality, Agriculture, Climate, Nature, Economy |
Dec 06, 2021 |
For drinkable waterIn a referendum held at the beginning of July, Slovenia’s citizens voted by a clear majority in favour of preserving the shore and coastal zones. In doing so, they overturned a new law that would also have affected Alpine waters. |
NewsInternational, Slovenia Alpine Politics, Nature, Spatial development, Soil quality, Water |
Oct 04, 2021 |
Alpine plants: persistent and endangeredSpiked rue, glacier buttercup, saxifrage: the habitat of such alpine plants is shrinking with the glaciers, as a recent study shows. In addition to climate change, mountain plants are also suffering from nitrogen deposition. |
NewsInternational, Italy Nature, Climate, Soil quality |
Mar 16, 2021 |
Where pesticides do not belongOn children’s playgrounds, in schoolyards and at the marketplace: researchers from Italy, Austria and Germany detect 32 different agricultural poisons in public places in South Tyrol. |
NewsInternational, South Tyrol Agriculture, Nature, Soil quality |
Feb 18, 2021 |
Alpine landscape is not renewable!Landscape is a key to negotiating social and political issues. CIPRA has taken up these issues as part of its Alpine-wide priority theme “Landscape” 2019-2020. This position paper, which was developed in a broad and participatory process with CIPRA representatives, young Alpine women and experts from all Alpine countries, is the conclusion of this priority theme. |
PositionInternational Alpine Politics, Soil quality, Spatial development, Nature |
Dec 09, 2020 |
Re-Imagine Alps[Project completed] Relations between humans, and between humans and nature, are the focus of the “Re-Imagine Alps” project. People take responsibility for their environment when they feel concerned and involved. Landscape here serves as a frame of reference and focal point for the perception and communication of sustainability issues: various relationships, memories and visions are illuminated in respect of, by, and for landscape in the overall Alpine context. Responsibilities and obligations grow out of ideas and relationships. |
CIPRA ProjectInternational Forest, Nature, People, Soil quality, Water |
Nov 22, 2018 |
Nature providing services in the AlpsWhether mountain forests that protect us from avalanches and clean our air, or rivers and alpine pastures that provide us drinking water, energy or nourishment: in the AlpES Project ten partner organisations from six alpine countries have evaluated and documented ecosystem services for the past three years. They will present their results on 21st and 22nd November 2018 at a Final Event in Innsbruck/A. Press representatives are kindly invited to attend. |
Press/Media releaseInternational Soil quality, Climate, Nature, Forest, Water |
Oct 02, 2018 |
Underestimated soilWe cannot breathe it, we cannot drink it, and yet it forms the very basis of our lives: soil feeds us, is home to us, protects us. Why has its importance hardly been recognised until today? |
NewsInternational Soil quality |
Oct 03, 2017 |
speciAlps[Project completed] Grasslands, marshes, hedges, biotopes and woods are examples of natural treasures and biological diversity that are of great value to alpine regions and municipalities. Not only do they offer a habitat for plants and animals, but also humans value functioning natural areas for their attractiveness and the quality of life they offer. Nevertheless, –these areas have much more potential than we often realise and there is much more every municipality can do! |
CIPRA ProjectInternational Soil quality, Nature |
May 16, 2017 |
Hochparterre: Constructive AlpsIn a special issue of the architecture magazine Hochparterre the four winners and all the nominees of the final round of Constructive Alps, the International award for sustainable renovation and new building in the Alps. In German with English summaries. |
PublicationInternational People, Soil quality, Climate, Spatial development |
Nov 10, 2015 |
Soil Erosion in the AlpsExperience gained from case studies (2006–2013) |
PublicationInternational, Switzerland Nature, Soil quality |
Jun 04, 2014 |