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2018 Olympics - How green are France's candidatures?
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Jan 15, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:19 AM
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filed under:
sporting events,
sport,
winter sports, skiing areas,
sport,
sustainable development
Four French towns are bidding to stage the 2018 Winter Olympics:
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Switzerland says No to "gigaliners"
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zopemaster
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Jan 15, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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filed under:
traffic avoidance, traffic calming,
transport policy, transport planning,
traffic impacts
Environmental associations have launched a campaign against the introduction of "gigaliners" on Switzerland's roads. The country's Bundesrat [Federal Council] has already clearly rejected the "monster trucks".
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Even high-elevation Himalayan glaciers are melting
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zopemaster
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Jan 15, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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filed under:
climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
glaciers,
geomorphology
Glacier studies by an international team led by Natalie Kehrwald of Ohio State University show that even high-elevation glaciers are suffering from the effect of climate change.
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Lots of Russian tourists in Austria
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zopemaster
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Jan 15, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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tourism
Never before have so many Russian holidaymakers come to Austria as in 2008. Hotels reported a 35% rise in arrivals and a 40% increase in overnight stays.
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Discussion on territorial cohesion in Europe
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zopemaster
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Dec 18, 2008
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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filed under:
depopulation,
demographics,
regional development
Discussion of the European Commission's Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion entitled "Territorial Diversion as Strength" has been underway since October 2008.
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LexALP online database
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zopemaster
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Dec 18, 2008
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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information systems
The LexALP project (Legal Language Harmonisation System for Environment and Spatial Planning within the Multilingual Alps) co-financed by the EU is aimed at collating and explaining specialised terminology relating to the subjects of spatial planning and sustainable development, and making available free of charge on an internet website.
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More than 10,000 alien species in Europe
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zopemaster
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Dec 04, 2008
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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filed under:
biodiversity monitoring,
biodiversity,
nature conservation/support,
nature
The fact that more and more non-indigenous species of fauna and flora are spreading throughout Europe is nothing new. But for the first time a complete list of all the invasive species has now been compiled.
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Alpine Crossing
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zopemaster
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Dec 04, 2008
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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filed under:
tourism policy, tourism concepts,
tourism,
passenger transport,
transalpine transport,
sustainable development
The "Alpine Pearls" co-operation venture is organising a "softly mobile" winter trip through the Pearls of the Alps between 19 and 30 January 2009 - specially for members of the press.
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ACCESS: Improving the provision of basic services
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zopemaster
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Nov 20, 2008
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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filed under:
passenger transport,
transalpine transport,
development/support measures
ACCESS, the transnational project, was launched in Genoa/I at the end of October. Its objective is to improve the provision of basic public services in rural mountain regions using innovations in organisation.
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Projects on transnational networking in the area of natural hazards
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zopemaster
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Nov 20, 2008
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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filed under:
natural hazards,
nature,
climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
climate change, climate policy
AdaptAlp, a recently launched EU project, looks at climate response measures and the evaluation of natural hazards. The work on strategies and proposed solutions aimed at coping with the impact of climate change is to provide the basis for more intensive international co-operation in natural hazard management.
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