Austria
Four conferences of the European Ministers of Forestry have addressed the role of forests as an important economic factor to date, stressing research results and needs, followed their significant contribution in protecting human settlements and infrastructure against natural hazards and providing benefits such as recreation and preservation of ecological diversity. They also focused on...
A bibliometric analysis of the worldwide research activities associated with mountains or the alpine part of mountains is presented, according to country, institution, and subject. Half of the human population depends on mountains in one way or another, and mountains cover between 12 and 26 percent of the ice free terrestrial area. About 20 percent of the human population lives in mountains or...
In Austria, a predominantly mountainous country in the middle of Europe, in general high nature value farming, clean environment and rich cultural and natural heritage prevail. The landscape is characterised by the high proportion of less-favoured areas (LFA), most of which is classified as mountain area. The mountain area comprises 70 percent of Austrian territory and 58 percent of the...
The concept of “Heimat” (“home”) in the social structure of mountain farmers in the Tyrol: “Heimat” and the process of identity-finding in the European Union The European Union as a founder and creator for “Heimat” and Identity constructions!? The concept of “Heimat” is more than just a synonym of the word “home” and...
Today, almost every household in Eastern Tyrol owns at least one camera. Photography is mainly used to document special events such as family festivities or the development of one’s children. Everyday work, especially that of women farmers, common landscape scenes, or “unspectacular” plants are hardly found in the photo collections of local people. These neglected topics are...
Planning and development in regional policy are always an expression and a result of power-related processes in society and thus are closely linked to the issue of equality between women and men. Spatial structures are socially constructed and therefore they reflect the social, economic and (power) political relations of a society and hence the gender relations inherent in this society. The...
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