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Sondrio is the 2007 Alpine Town of the Year
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Aug 10, 2006
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Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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players / networks
In 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.
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Alpine protected areas: a new international agency in Chambéry
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Jul 27, 2006
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last modified
Apr 24, 2024 03:25 PM
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protected areas / sanctuaries,
players / networks
The 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
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Ice-free Alps just a matter of decades?
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zopemaster
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Jul 27, 2006
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Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy
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.
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Switzerland: NEAT costs have doubled
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zopemaster
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Jul 27, 2006
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Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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major railway projects,
transalpine transport
More 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.
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Future research and transnational cooperation in the Alps
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Jul 13, 2006
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Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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sustainable development,
regional planning, regional development, land use
The 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.
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Know-how for the Alps online
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zopemaster
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Jun 29, 2006
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Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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sustainable development
Within 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 .
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Austria: Federation money for the implementation of the Alpine Convention
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zopemaster
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Jun 29, 2006
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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Alpine Convention,
international treaties
In 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.
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Biodiversity in Europe's mountains
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zopemaster
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Jun 29, 2006
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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biodiversity
At what point is Europe on the way to halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010? With respect to this issue, the European Environment Agency has drafted a report in English, in which a chapter is devoted to biodiversity in mountain ecosystems.
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Brain Drain and Brain Gain in peripheral regions
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Jun 14, 2006
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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labour market,
depopulation,
demographics
The focus of the 2003 - 2007 "Brain Drain - Brain Gain" Project is the development, introduction and evaluation of action plans that reduce the migration of skilled labour from peripheral regions and instead favour migration into these areas.
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Negotiable land use certificates
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zopemaster
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Jun 14, 2006
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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regional planning, regional development, land use
Through the tool of the land use certificate (FNZ) the growing land consumption in Switzerland shall be limited. With the brochure "Recovering land - land use certificates in land planning" the environmental organisation Pro Natura wants to bring the discussion about this tool in the public arena.
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