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Research Projects on the Alpine Area

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Landscape's social field: representation and legitimacy in the use of the mountain habitat

  Projectleader: Dr. Yvan Droz [More]

 
 

The rise and fall of the English Alps: The role of the English and of English-speaking peoples and cultures in the invention development and perpetuation of the Alps

  Projectleader: Prof. Neil Forsyth [More]

 
 

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FIAT LUX! The making of night landscapes in the Alpine area

  Projectleader: Dr. Jon Mathieu [More]

 
 

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The power of images – their creation, reproduction, and strategic use in the shaping of Alpine future

  Projectleader: PD Dr. Norman Backhaus [More]

 
 

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Breathing fresh air. A scientific and cultural history of air as a component of Alpine landscapes

  Projectleader: Prof. Claude Reichler [More]

 
 

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Work and life worlds: memory, change and present

  Projectleader: Dr. Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf [More]

 
 

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Mountaineering in Switzerland and its impact on the perception and uses of the Alpine landscape in a historical perspective

  Projectleader: Prof. Jakob Tanner [More]

 
 

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Forest expansion in the Swiss Alps: a quantitative analysis of bio-physical and socio-economic causes with an emphasis on structural change in agriculture

  Projectleader: Dr. Priska Baur [More]

 
 

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Required levels of tree regeneration in forests protecting against natural hazards: Model-based indicator development

  Projectleader: Dr. Peter Brang [More]

 
 

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How the interaction between cultural traditions and socio-economically motivated changes in agricultural land use is shaping future grassland biodiversity in the landscape of the Alps

  Projectleader: Dr. Markus Fischer [More]

 
 

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Flood'alps: Floodplains of the Alpine arc between security and biodiversity: changes in the representations, decisions and management

  Projectleader: Prof. Jean-Michel Gobat [More]

 
 

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Transformation rates of Alpine landscapes and surrounding areas: potential threats and benefits to people and selected species

  Projectleader: Dr. Felix Kienast [More]

 
 

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The interactive effect of land-use, nitrogen loading and climatic warming on high Alpine biota in the central Alps

  Projectleader: Prof. Christian Körner [More]

 
 

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Driving forces for changes in management and biodiversity of Alpine grasslands – basis for planning future development

  Projectleader: Dr. Andreas Lüscher [More]

 
 

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VERA: Veratrum album in mountain grasslands under changing farming activities: a model system for developing management strategies to prevent weed invasion and loss of biodiversity

  Projectleader: Prof. Heinz Müller-Schärer [More]

 
 

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Silver fir and the mountain forest – ungulate conflict: Do browsing ungulates drive forest landscape changes in the Alps?

  Projectleader: Dr. Josef Senn [More]

 
 

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Landscape diversity determined from below ground: the significance of endomycorrhiza

  Projectleader: Prof. Andres Wiemken [More]

 
 

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Vulnerability of the Alpine landscape and habitat: simulation of future landscapes and development of support tools for regional decision making

  Projectleader: Dr. Peter Bebi [More]

 
 

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Governing the use of landscapes and habitats in Alpine regions: negotiations as a means to co-ordinate stakeholder interests

  Projectleader: Prof. René L. Frey [More]

 
 

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Conflicting expectations and objectives regarding the development of Alpine landscapes: psychological background, societal mechanisms and possible ways to sustainable landscape development in the Alps and outside

  Projectleader: Dr. Marcel Hunziker [More]

 
 

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Co-operation in Landscape Management: institutional strategies at the communal and regional levels

  Projectleader: Prof. Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz [More]

 
 

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Multi-criteria screening of landscape development projects as a management tool for participatory consensus finding

  Projectleader: Dr. Bea Schwarzwälder [More]

 
 

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Sustainable landscape production systems: a demand-oriented agricultural approach (SULAPS)

  Projectleader: Dr. Stephan Pfefferli [More]

 
 

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Maintenance of the traditional cultivated Alpine landscape and ecological reproduction measures for the preservation of living and usable areas by means of institutional resource regimes involving voluntary work, common property regimes and other forms of collective action

  Projectleader: Dr. Raimund Rodewald [More]

 
 

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How to turn Alpine landscapes into an asset of development? Institutional prerequisites and conditions at the local and regional level

  Projectleader: Dr. Erwin Rüegg [More]

 
 

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The value of landscape in the eyes of both residents and tourists: implicit price and strategies of reconciliation

  Projectleader: Prof. Nils Soguel [More]

 
 

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Transport Infrastructure, Tourist Behaviour and Spatial Structure in Landscapes and Habitats of the Alps

  Projectleader: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen [More]

 
 

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Sustainable tourism in Alpine regions: monitoring and managing

  Projectleader: Prof. Thomas Bieger [More]

 
 

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FUNalpin – Virtual Future: new types of Alpine landscapes: evaluating the resource bases of new economies for reshaping regional policy

  Projectleader: Prof. Boesch [More]

 
 

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The impact of the liberalisation of public services on the competitiveness of firms in the Alpine regions of Switzerland

  Projectleader: Prof. Alain Thierstein [More]

 
 

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ALPAYS – Alpine Landscapes: Payments and spillovers – who pays for what? Flows of costs and benefits from and to the Alps – and propositions for a reform

  Projectleader: Felix Walter [More]

 
 

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Sustainable tourism in Alpine regions: monitoring and managing

  Projectleader: Dr. Heinz Rütter [More]

 
 

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Knowledge based dynamic landscape analysis and simulation for Alpine environments

  Projectleader: Dr. Britta Allgöwer [More]

 
 

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GISALP: Spatio-temporal information on rapidly changing climate-sensitive high-mountain environment as a strategic tool for communication, analysis, participative planning and management for the intensely developed tourist region of the Upper Engadin

  Projectleader: Prof. Wilfried Haeberli [More]

 
 

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Planning with virtual Alpine landscapes and autonomous agents

  Projectleader: Prof. Willy A. Schmid [More]



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