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Der naturnahe Tourismus ist ein wichtiges Element der ökologisch nachhaltigen Entwicklung im Alpenraum. In seinen vielfältigen Facetten und Formen unterstützt er den Naturschutz, die Kulturpflege und die Landschaftsentwicklung. Gute Beispiele zeigen, dass ein erfolgreicher naturnaher Tourismus der lokalen Bevölkerung Arbeitsplätze und regionale Wertschöpfung bringen kann. Um eine hohe Qualität des naturnahen Tourismus zu gewährleisten, ist ein funktionierendes Qualitätsmanagement wichtig. Die Autoren präsentieren dazu zehn Standards. Sie reichen vom Schutz der Natur, der Pflege der Landschaft, der guten Architektur, der Raumplanung und der Angebotsentwicklung bis zum naturnahen Mar...
The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a “land degradation-neutral world.” It also provides a comprehensive and highly informative overview of the latest developments at the international level, important cross-disciplinary issues and different approaches in national legislation. The book is divided into four sections. Forewords by internationally renowned academics and politicians are followed by an analysis of the cont...
Diese Veröffentlichung enthält die erste systematische länderübergreifende Analyse der Schneesicherheit der alpinen Skigebiete im Kontext des Klimawandels für fünf Länder der Region: Frankreich, Schweiz, Österreich, Italien und Deutschland.
This volume draws attention to many specific challenges of multilingual processing within the European Union, especially after the recent successive enlargement. Most of the languages considered herein are not only ‘less resourced’ in terms of processing tools and training data, but also have features which are different from the well known international language pairs. The 16 contributions address specific problems and solutions for languages from south-eastern and central Europe in the context of multilingual communication, translation and information retrieval.
This book provides a detailed overview on methods used for the dating of past torrential activity on fans and cones and fosters the discussion on the impact of past and potential future climate change on torrential processes. The book has a clear focus on the practical applications of these methods, complemented by case studies. The limits of each dating method in case of excessive natural and human interventions on fans and cones are shown.
Schwerpunkt des Buches bildet die Auseinandersetzung mit den sich wechselseitig beeinflussenden Aspekten von Mobilität, Verkehr und Raumnutzung. Neben einer Beschäftigung mit den für das Mobilitätsverhalten bzw. Verkehr grundlegenden menschlichen Bedürfnissen wird vor allem auch auf die speziellen topografischen Gegebenheiten in Gebirgsräumen eingegangen. Diese regionalspezifischen Aspekte erfordern zusammen mit sich ständig ändernden globalen Rahmenbedingungen eine über die traditionellen Modelle der Verkehrs- und Regionalwissenschaft hinausgehende interdisziplinäre Sichtweise. Der in diesem Buch beschriebene Modellansatz stellt eine generelle Grundlage zur Entwicklung und auch Evaluierung zukunftsfähiger Planungsstrategien dar.
This book presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives. It addresses aspects such as the general challenges in Africa with regard to soil management; the structural deficiencies in legal, organizational and institutional terms; and specific policies at the national level, including land cover policies and persistent organic pollutants. This fourth volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy is divided into four parts, the first of which deals with several aspects of the theme “sustainable soil management in Africa.” In turn, the second part covers recent international developments, ...
Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically. Enlightenment thinkers felt the sublime and magisterial peaks were the very embodiment of nature, Romantic poets looked to them for divine inspiration, and Victorian explorers tested their ingenuity and courage against them. Located at the crossroads between powerful states, the Alps have played a crucial role in the formation of European history, a place of intense cultural fusion as well as fierce conflict between warring nations. A diverse range of flora and fauna have made themselves at home in this harsh environment, which today welcomes over 100 million tourists a year. Leading Alpine scholar Jon Mathieu tells the story of the people who have lived in and been inspired by these mountains and valleys, from the ancient peasants of the Neolithic to the cyclists of the Tour de France. Far from being a remote and backward corner of Europe, the Alps are shown by Mathieu to have been a crucible of new ideas and technologies at the heart of the European story.
International and domestic tourism changed not only as a result of the Corona pandemic, but even before. As a result of Covid-19, international and global tourism has temporarily collapsed in most countries, but in many countries - such as Austria or Switzerland - domestic tourism has increased. The big question is whether the slump in global tourism is temporary or whether an actual trend reversal is on the horizon. In favour of the former is the fact that growing middle classes in Asia, but also Latin America and Africa, have greater financial means and more and more people are vaccinated against Covid-19; in favour of the latter are the many ecological constraints and the fight against climate change, but also the emergence of new mutations in the Corona virus. Based on the development of tourism since the turn of the millennium, these and similar questions about tourism and its short- and medium-term perspectives will be discussed.