IGF Forschungsberichte

Path to the summit – inspire and drive sustainable mountain regions Johann Stötter, Axel Borsdorf & Eric Veulliet 9 Spatial Planning Participation in mountain forest management– the role of group building for the outcome of participation processes: two case studies from Bavaria Dominik Himmler, Klaus Wagner & Michael Suda 23 Applicability and appropriateness of risk prevention measures in mountain areas assessment of the Hazard Zone Plan (HZP) in South Tyrol – an Applied Risk...

New concepts and strategies are needed to manage the pressure put on regions as yet unexploited by the leisure industry, changes in agriculture towards intensive farming on the one hand and extensive farming on the other, and the space needed for urban expansion and the infrastructure it requires. This is true for every Alpine country. In Slovenia the issue is compounded by the recent change to the political system which has brought increasing economic opportunities for marketing the country´s...

Inhalt: P. Schuster, Preface; A. Borsdorf – J. Stötter – E. Veulliet, Managing Alpine Future – an introduction Environment and Natural Hazards M. F. Price, Maintaining mountain biodiversity in an era of climate change; M. Vetter, Aspects of differentiation of global and regional climate change effects in Alpine regions; Y. Kohler, An ecological network in the Alps – new space for nature: Overview on changing nature conservation practices in the Alps; M. Mauser – M. Muerth, GLOWA-Danube:...

Aus dem Inhalt: H.Friesinger, H.Matis, Vorwort; A. Borsdorf, Aufgaben und Ziele der Internationalen Gebirgsforschung; G.Grabherr, M. Gottfried, H. Pauli, Der globale Wandel im internationalen Monitoring; O.Bender, D. Moser, Geographische Informationssysteme im Dienste von Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit: das System GALPIS; U.Tappeiner, G.Tappeiner, D. Gramm, Daten für die Alpen – Von Schwierigkeiten und Lösungen beim Alpenmonitoring; C.Geitner, Böden in den Alpen – Ausgewählte Aspekte zur...

Aus dem Inhalt: Scientific output Permafrost-Glacier interaction - Process Understanding of Permafrost Reformation and Degradation Climatic-induces spatio-temporal change of kinematics and ground temperature of rock glaciers and permafrost in the Hohe Tauern Range, Austria Permafrost and Climate Change in North and South Tyrol .

The Series IGF Forschungsberichte / IGF Research Reports aims to present findings of ongoing or recently cornpleted research projects ar the IGF which could not be accommodated wirhin the space of an article for a scientific journal. It thus provides a comprehensive picture, freeing readers from the necessity of looking for individual contributions in different journals. The series also documents proceedings of conferences. An inrerested public will thus find all contributions to a conference...

Volume 7 of the series IGF-Forschungsberichte summarizes the 27th session of the PECSRL biennial international conference Mountains, uplands, lowlands. European landscapes from an altitudinal perspective. The conference was held in 2016, at two locations: Innsbruck and Seefeld (Austria), hosted by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The conference brought together geographers, landscape architects, historians, ethnographers,...