Alps
The Alpine Region provides a unique environment for agrobiodiversity. Over the centuries, animals and plants have been developed by farmers to suit the very different landscapes of the Alps. Animals were bred for hardiness, fertility and sure-footedness. Plants were selected that could cope with the harsh conditions of the Alps: high altitude, intense sun and short vegetation periods. However...
The original study "Agricultural Genetic Resources in the Alps”, undertaken by the Stiftung Pro Specie Rara, was published in 1995 and successfully updated between 2000 and 2001 by the Monitoring Institute for Rare Breeds and Seeds. The update was published in 2003. The Monitoring Institute considered a new update of this study to be necessary. However, it is clear that a study on a...
This newsletter contains 56 pages of global change science from mountain regions around the world, news from MRI's regional networks, meeting reports, interview and book review.
Content:
- MRI Interview: ACQWA: Assessing the Future of Water Resources in Vulnerable Mountain Regions;
- Science Peaks: A High Altitude Interdisciplinary Field...
This newsletter contains 56 pages of global change science from mountain regions around the world, news from MRI's regional networks, meeting reports, interview and book review.
Content:
- MRI Interview: ACQWA: Assessing the Future of Water Resources in Vulnerable Mountain Regions;
- Science Peaks: A High Altitude Interdisciplinary Field...
Glacier mass changes are considered to represent key variables related to climate variability. The authors have reconstructed a proxy for annual mass-balance changes in Grosse Aletschgletscher, Swiss Alps, back to AD 1500 using a non-linear back-propagation neural network (BPN). The model skill of the BPN performs better than reconstructions using conventional stepwise multiple linear...
For centuries high mountains and glaciers have been a source of both paralyzing fear and strange fascination. Natural scientists first began to show interest in Alpine glaciers at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but although the first simple observations of glacier movements and moraines were made, no systematic scientific investigations were carried out.
The nineteenth...
European Alpine glaciers are sensitive indicators of past climate and are thus valuable sources of climate history. Unfortunately, direct determinations of glacier changes (length variations and mass changes) did not start with increasing accuracy until just before the end of the 19th century. Therefore, historical and physical methods have to be used to reconstruct glacier variability...
Once considered exclusively as places of work and production, alpine summer pastures are becoming more and more frequently integrated into the domain of alternative tourism. This phenomenon straddles nature tourism and rural tourism, although very little is known about its characteristics and the motivations and attitudes of those who participate in it. To broaden this knowledge, a...
L'Alpe looks at the people across Europe who have adapted to an exceptional climate. A cross between a book and a magazine, it provides background documents on a main theme. In this issue, the theme is water. The attached document summarises the articles contained in L'Alpe 09 that can be accessed at http://www.lalpe.com
Conservateur au Musée dauphinois, elle a à son actif plusieurs publications et expositions sur le patrimoine industriel dans les Alpes, dont Les Maîtres de l’acier et Cathédrales électriques. Elle collabore aux travaux du musée de la Houille blanche à Lancey ainsi que du musée de la Viscose à Echirolles et prépare une...
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