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Project ID:33 | Module:5 | Status: finished
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

                           
Contact: Prof. Wilfried Haeberli
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zürich
e-mail: haeberli@geo.unizh.ch
Phone/Fax: 01 635 51 20 / Fax: 01 635 51 21
Web: http://www.geo.unizh.ch/phys/aboutus/homepages/haeberli.html

Study areas: Oberengadin (GR)

Project partners: Amt für Raumplanung Kanton Graubünden, Amt für Umwelt Kanton Graubünden, Region Oberengadin (GR)

Summary:

An integrated spatio-temporal (“4D”) geo-information system (GISALP) was developed and initiated as a tool for communication, analysis, participatory planning and management in the highest parts of the Alpine landscape, the belt of mou...  ->read more


Description:
Dealing With Changes in the Upper Alps

Due to climate change, high mountain areas are faced with rapid and unpredictable environmental and economic transformation. Not only are the glaciers melting and the slopes crumbling, but tourism...  ->read more

Other publications
and activities:
Poster:GISALP: Spatio-temporal information on rapidly changing climate-sensitive high-mountain environment as a strategic tool for communication, analysis, participative planning and management in the intensely developed tourist region of the Upper Engadine [Wilfried Haeberli, (English)]
Abstract: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 Upper Engadin [Wilfried Haeberli, (English)]




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