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Project ID:31 | Module:4 | Status: finished
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

                           
Contact: Felix Walter
Thunstrasse 22
3005 Bern
e-mail: walter@ecoplan.ch
Phone/Fax: 031 356 61 61 / Fax: 031 356 61 60
Web: http://www.ecoplan.ch

Study areas: ganze Schweiz/toute la Suisse/Switzerland as a whole

Project partners: Eidg. Departements für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (UVEK), Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung (ARE), Bundesamt für Umwelt, Wald und Landschaft (BUWAL), Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft (seco)

Summary:
Introduction
The project ALPAYS gives an overview of the economic interactions between the Alps and the rest of Switzerland. Firstly, we are interested in the main cost and benefit flows in and from the Alps. Secondly, the question is raised w...  ->read more

Description:
Who pays for what in the Alpine region?

Money flows directly and indirectly, in a great variety of ways, between the Alpine region and the rest of Switzerland, bringing both advantages and problems to the two areas. This project attemp...  ->read more

Other publications
and activities:
Publication:ALPAYS: Theoretische Grundlagen [Ecoplan, (German)]
Publication:Regionale Kostenunterschiede und Ausgleichsmechanismen in der Grundversorgung [Ecoplan, (German)]
Publication:Subventionieren - schützen - anbieten - nützen: Natur- und Landschaftsschutz im Spannungsfeld [Ecoplan, (German)]
Publication:ALPAYS: Zahlen die Agglomerationen für die Alpen? Auswertung der Finanzströme zwischen dem Alpenraum und der übrigen Schweiz. [Ecoplan, (German)]
Poster:ALPAYS Alpine Landscapes: Payments and Spillovers [Felix Walter, (English)]
Abstract: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 [Felix Walter, Michael Marti, Stephan Osterwald, Helen Simmen, (English)]




A Programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation