June/ July Summary 11/06-14/06 Copy Date: 14.07.2006

June/ July Summary 11/06-14/06 Copy date: 14.07.2006

DYNALP²: Sustainable Development at town level Contents Within the framework of the project “Future in the Alps“, experts have gathered DYNALP²: Sustainable exhaustive knowledge about sustainable development in the Alps. The implementation of this knowledge is the objective of the new project DYNALP2, Development at town level that was launched by the “Alliance in the Alps“, a network of local authorities...... 1 ...... more on page 1 Brain Drain and Brain Gain Brain Drain and Brain Gain in peripheral regions in peripheral regions ...... 2 Know-how for the Alps The focus of the 2003 - 2007 “Brain Drain – Brain Gain“ Project is the online...... 2 development, introduction and evaluation of action plans that reduce the migration of skilled labour from peripheral regions and instead favour migration Future research and into these areas...... more on page 2 transnational cooperation in the Alps ...... 2 Mountain Convention: Cohesion towards growth Negotiable land use The fifth European Mountain Convention will take place on 14 and 15 September certificates ...... 2 in Chaves in Portugal. It is organised by Euromontana, the European Association of Mountain Territories and its slogan is “Cohesion for growth – mountains as Mountain Convention: natural ingredients for Europe’s competitiveness “...... more on page 3 Cohesion towards growth 3 Is mountain milk more valuable? ...... 3 Austria: Federation money DYNALP²: Sustainable Development at town level for the implementation of the Alpine Convention ..... 3 (14.06.2006) Within the framework of the project “Future in the Alps“, experts Management and Winter have gathered exhaustive knowledge about sustainable development in the Alps. The implementation of this knowledge is the objective of the new project sport resorts...... 3 2 DYNALP , that was launched by the “Alliance in the Alps“, a network of local Miscellaneous...... 4 authorities. Towns and Associations of Towns can submit projects that contribute to the Agenda ...... 4 sustainable development and the use of the knowledge from "Future in the Alps", Oh!...... 4 a project of the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps - CIPRA. “Alliance in the Alps“ promotes selected projects with a grant of 20,000 – 40,000 Euro, which towns must co-finance 50%. Overall, 500,000 Euro will be allocated. The towns which are members of “Alliance in the Alps“ can submit their ideas by 15 September. Documents and information about the tender can be seen at http://dynalp.alpenallianz.org/de/ausschreibung. In terms of issues, the projects must deal with one of the following six key issues: “Regional Value Added“, “Governance capacity“, “Protected areas”, “Mobility“, “New forms of decision-making“, “Policies and instruments“. In the selection process, the international Jury will consider the sustainability of the project: who is best able to harmonize environmental, economic and social and cultural interests? Who has ideas that can be transported to other towns or regions and that can better gain the general public’s attention about the issue of sustainability? The projects in the towns are the core and the largest budget items of DYNALP². Another focus is common events such as workshops, excursions and international meetings. These will promote networking of the towns across the Alps and therefore make local knowledge available to everyone. The DYNALP2 project will last over three years, from April 2006 until June 2009. The project is supported by the MAVA Foundation for Nature Protection in Switzerland. Source: CIPRA-International

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Brain Drain and Brain Gain in peripheral regions The centre of Central Switzerland: (14.06.2006) The focus of the 2003 - 2007 “Brain Drain – Brain Gain“ Project Lucerne. 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. The regions involved are Central Switzerland with the Cantons of Lucerne and Uri, the region Twente in the Netherlands as well as Western Palatinate in Germany. The money come from funds of the Interreg IIIB Programme “Northwest-Europe“. During the first project stage, researchers studied size, reasons and consequences of the Brain Drain. On the basis of the collected data, measures for the promotion of the Brain Gain were subsequently developed © http://www.luzern.org by means of a participative process. In the Uri Canton for example, an Internet platform has been developed to create a network between Uri and migrants from the Canton. Sources and Info: http://www.brain-drain.org (de/en) Know-how for the Alps online (29.06.2006) 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. The results of alpKnowHow are available and have been arranged according to the following six key issues: regional added value, governance capacity, protected areas, mobility, new forms of decision making as well as policies and instruments. For each area, there is a work report in English, which represents the state of the knowledge about the issue. The expert statements are supported by references to the most significant publications and by experiences from projects taken as examples. With respect to each key issue, the experts also provide a series of recommendations for practice and economy. A summary report includes results and conclusions regarding all the six key issues and defines the most significant key messages from the research stage. Info: http://www.cipra.org/zukunft (de/fr/it/sl/en) Future research and transnational cooperation in the Alps (13.07.2006) 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. A first article represents the framework for future-oriented debates about the role of the Alps in a growing Europe. The Author analyses the question, if and how is it possible to achieve a sustainable development in the Alpine area in the face of the global economic and political changes, which takes into consideration the peculiarities which are specific of the Alps. Attention is particularly drawn to the role of the Alpine Convention and the interests of different players for collaboration. Finally the Author supports a systematic coming together of strengths of the different decision- making bodies and levels. Another article is the result of a study about land planning policies in the Alpine area. In consideration of the end of the Interreg III-Programme in 2006, on the basis of the results, 70 actual land policy guidelines a series of concrete proposals for improvement for the new programme period 2007-2013. Literature: La revue de géographie alpine/Journal of alpine research, Vol. 94, N. 2, June 2006, Prospectives et coopération transnationale dans les Alpes/Prospectives and transnational cooperation in the Alps. Grenoble, ISSN 0035-1121, 120 pages. Negotiable land use certificates (14.06.2006) 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. The basic idea of the FNZ is based on the trading of rights for land development, similar to the trading of CO2 emission rights. In the first stage, the Federation and the Cantons will determine the maximum development area of Switzerland allocated to construction. Then a number of FNZ in line with the size of the area will be handed out and a market of user rights will be created. In order to be able to construct on new land, the owner of the lot must not only own the land, but also the relevant right of use, under the form of an FNZ. Existing land planning tools will be used to decide where it will be possible to build. Source and Info: http://www.pronatura.ch/content/index.php?lang=1&mz=3&ref=3&t=1_92 (de/fr)

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Mountain Convention: Cohesion towards growth Is there in mountain areas a common vision of the future? (01.06.2006) The fifth European Mountain Convention will take place on 14 and 15 September in Chaves in Portugal. It is organised by Euromontana, the European Association of Mountain Territories and its slogan is “Cohesion for growth – mountains as natural ingredients for Europe’s competitiveness “. The delegates will work on a common vision for European Mountain Areas for the year 2020. They will first analyse the existing challenges of mountain areas. Are they the same in different regions (EU-15, new EU-member states, Balkans etc.) but at different stages with different marks/features? What is the influence of WTO-negotiations, climate changes, the EU enlargement etc. on mountain areas? Working groups will deal with a wide variety of issues, from renewable energies to new and innovative IT © http://www.euromontana.org technologies. During the plenary meeting, current domestic and European policies will be debated and regional development programmes evaluated. The conference languages are Portuguese, English, French, German and Spanish. Info and applications: http://www.euromontana.org (fr/en/es)

Is mountain milk more valuable? (01.06.2006) For the first time in Switzerland, the price that consumers are ready to pay for milk from mountain areas was determined based on customer surveys. Within the framework of his graduate dissertation at the Institute for Agronomy of ETH Zürich, Kaspar Mühlentaler studied in the town of Steffisburg (canton Bern) possible prices for the four following categories: organic milk, milk processed or bottled in the region of origin, milk coming from mountain areas in general or specially from the Berner Oberland region, compared to a pasteurised generic product from the lowland. According to 260 respondents interviewed, there is a readiness to pay on average a premium of around 6 cents per litre for milk from mountain regions and up to 8 cents for organic milk. According to this, the indication of origin generates an increased willingness to pay, even without a specific way of being processed. In order to exploit the existing market potential, mountain products should be offered with a clear indication of their origin and in connection with statements about origin or quality. Download the article at: http://www.sab.ch (de/fr/it)

Austria: Federation money for the implementation of the Alpine Convention (29.06.2006) 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. Already one year ago, the Austrian National Council unanimously approved the „Highlighting of the ecological and regional economic potential of a development of the Alpine Area agreed with the Alpine convention, including the relevant protocols”. Now the so called "green Pact" is drafted for the country development 2007 - 2013 and one chapter is devoted to the AC with the title „Preservation and improvement of the country heritage”. In collaboration with the AC, projects by towns or regions will be promoted, as well as management plans or excursions up to the marketing of regionally specific products and services. The level of support is still to be defined. Quelle: http://www.tirol.com/politik/innsbruck/39154/index.do (de)

Management and Winter sport resorts (01.06.2006) A new volume from the series "Journal of alpine research" was published in March. It deals with the management and governance of winter sport resorts. Climate change and its effects on winter sports lead to new challenges for Alpine tourist resorts, which further fuel the discussion about the development of these areas. Up to now, issues regarding tourism development or the construction of new installations have been in the forefront. The authors of the publication deal specifically with the management of winter sport resorts, organisation methods or the peculiarities of public-private partnerships. The whole publication comes in two languages: French and English. Literature: La revue de géographie alpine/Journal of alpine research, Vol. 94, N. 1, March 2006, Gouvernance et stations de sports d’hiver/ Governance and winter sports resorts, Grenoble, ISSN 0035-1121, 112 pages

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Miscellaneous The way of the Wolves – The Alps- Carpathian Corridor (14.06.2006) The Austrian Ministry for Transportation Innovation and Technology is committed to the establishment of the wildlife Alps-Carpathian Corridor. Exhaustive studies from WWF and the University for Ground Cultivation in Vienna have represented the basis for this commitment. Over the next 20 years in Austria 20 green corridors will be established for reconnecting the Alps with the Carpathians, also for the wildlife. The first project takes place in Pöttsching – the corridor will be ready in August this year. Source and Info: http://www.wwf.at/News/news599/index.html (de), http://ivfl.boku.ac.at/projekte/woek_Austria (de)

Wengen Workshop 2006 on global climate change (14.06.2006) An international workshop on global climate change research will take place also this year on 4 – 6 October in Wengen/CH. The title of the event is “Adaptation to the impacts of climatic change in the European Alps “. The climate change in the Alpine area will have implications especially in the fields of winter tourism, frequency and size of natural hazards, agriculture and forestry, as well as in ecosystems and biodiversity. These are also the focuses of this workshop in English. Info and applications: http://www.unifr.ch/geosciences/geographie/EVENTS/Wengen/06/Wengen2006.html (en)

Biodiversity in Europe’s mountains (29.06.2006) 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. The meaning of mountains for biodiversity is shown in the fact that more than 2,500 out of about 11,500 vascular plants species registered for the European continent are found mainly above the tree line. The report points out the threat to this variety: about one third of the approximately 5,500 vascular plant species in the Alps are considered extinct, endangered or rare. Literature: EEA Report No 5/2006: Progress towards halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010. ISBN 92-9167-846-5, 99 pages

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First European Congress of Conservation Biology; 23-27.08.2006, …Sheep in designer rags: Jozef Eger/Hungary; conference language: English; organisers: Mazereeuw from Holland searches Socieny for Conservation Biology – European Section, Hungarian Natural for sponsors to provide sheep with History Museum; Information: http://www.eccb2006.org (en) a wind-, rain- and insect-proof pullover. Behind this commitment International Conference on risk management: Disaster Reduction; 27.08.- however there is absolutely not a 01.09.2006, Davos/CH; Conference language: English; Organiser: IDRC love for this creature. Provided with Davos; Information: http://www.davos2006.ch (en) advertising prints, the dressed

International Montespon workshop: Transnational exchange and sheep should advertise the networking on mountain topics; 05-06.09.2006, Lucerne/CH; Event products of the donor as moving language: English; Organiser: Interreg III-Projekt Espon, Schweizerisches advertising surfaces! Even sheep breeders take profit in the form of a Bundesamt für Raumplanung; Information: http://www.espon.ch (de/fr/it/en) monthly payment, that must be 20th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection: above the “operating costs“ of the Managing Environmental Knowledge; 06-08.09.2006, Graz/A; conference animals. After a dispute by the language: English; organisers: Know-Center & Graz University of Technology, Mayor of Skarsterlân/NL against Knowledge Management Institute, ECOresearch Network this advertising innovation in his Information: http://enviroinfo.know-center.tugraz.at (en) town, the judges will decide if the advertising sheep can keep their International workshop on air biology: Pollen dispersal in an alpine clothing. If not, sheep on the high environment; 14-19.09.2006, Sion/CH; conference language: English; Alpine meadows would also be Organiser: Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch; thankful pullover wearers. Information: Info: http://www.meteosuisse.ch/web/de/wetter/gesundheit/pollen_allgemein/AA_2006.html http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldu (en ngen/0,1185,OID5466592_REF1,00.ht ml (de) International conference: The Water Balance of the Alps – What do we need to protect the water resources of the Alps?; 28-29.09.2006, Innsbruck/A; Conference language : English (Contributions to debate also in German, French, Italian and Slovenian); Organiser: Ministry of life, ISCAR, Universität Innsbruck; Information: http://www.uibk.ac.at/alpinerraum/meetings/water_2006/index.html.en (en) alpMedia Newsletter. CIPRA – two-monthly information service (www.alpmedia.net) Impressum: CIPRA International • Im Bretscha 22 • FL 9494 Schaan • Tel. 00423 237 40 30 • Fax 00423 237 40 31 page 4 [email protected] • www.cipra.org • translation: IntrAlp