Global environmental change in alpine regions : recognition, impact, adaptation and mitigation /

Global environmental change in alpine regions : recognition, impact, adaptation and mitigation /

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Imprint:Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2002.
Description:xix, 271 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:New horizons in environmental economics
Subject:
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Alps.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Alps.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.
Climatic changes.
Ecology.
Alps -- Environmental conditions.
Alps.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4840311
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Other authors / contributors:Steininger, Karl W.
Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore.
ISBN:1843761831
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction and Overview
  • 1. Global environmental change
  • 2. Alpine regions
  • 3. Structure and overview
  • Part I. Recognition
  • 2. Alpine Waters in the Interplay of Global Change: Complex Links - Simple Effects?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Acid rain
  • 3. Metals, nutrients, fly ash particles and organic pollutants
  • 4. Solar ultraviolet radiation
  • 5. Global warming
  • 6. Saharan dust
  • 7. Towards a synthesis
  • 3. On the Economics Climate Change and the Climate Change of Economics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Some facts about climate change in the Alps
  • 3. Evaluating climate change: a test of economic paradigms
  • 4. Sustainability for Alpine regions
  • Part II. Impact
  • 4. Economic Consequences of Climate Change in Alpine Regions: Impact and Mitigation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Forecasting climate change impact for the European Alps
  • 3. Impact on the water balance
  • 4. Impact on glaciers and permafrost
  • 5. Impact on the snow cover
  • 6. Impact on winter tourism
  • 7. Impact on mobility
  • 8. Impact on hydroelectric power production
  • 9. Impact on agriculture and forestry
  • 10. Impact on natural hazards
  • 11. Conclusions
  • 5. Climate Change and its Impact on the Insurance Industry
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Disaster trends
  • 3. Changes in climate and the environment
  • 4. The climate negotiations
  • 5. The insurance industry - options for action
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Part III. Adaptation
  • 6. Human Vulnerability - Factors Influencing the Implementation of Prevention and Protection Measures: An Agent-based Approach
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Vulnerability and criticality
  • 3. Protection capacity
  • 4. Motivation and competence
  • 5. Factors influencing motivation and competence
  • 6. The reappraisal processes
  • 7. Overview and summary: the process of motivation and competence appraisal
  • 8. Conclusions
  • 7. Developments in Natural Hazard Management in Alpine Countries Facing Global Environmental Change
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Development of natural hazard management in the Alps
  • 3. Global change - challenge of new dimension
  • 4. Sustainable protection of the Alpine lebensraum
  • 5. Ideas for a future natural hazard management in Tyrol
  • 6. Conclusion
  • 8. The Political Practice of Natural Hazards Control in Austria and the Question of Climate Change
  • 1. Introduction: natural hazards control and climate change
  • 2. Administrating risk: the role of bureaucracy in risk regulation
  • 3. Case Study: the torrent and avalanche control service in Austria
  • 4. Climate change: possible effects and adaptation
  • 5. Summary: need for institutional change
  • 9. Climatological Research and its Possible Contribution to Regional Planning in an Alpine Environment
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Alpine residential areas and their climate
  • 3. Climate suitability maps of Styria - some experiences
  • 4. Summary
  • Part IV. Mitigation
  • 10. The Role of Alpine Agriculture and Forestry in Climate Change Mitigation - a Scenario Analysis
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The role of agriculture and forestry in the Alpine region
  • 3. Importance of agriculture and forestry for climate change
  • 4. Quantification of the current contribution to climate change
  • 5. Scenarios for Austria
  • 6. Conclusions
  • 11. Climate Change Mitigation in the Alps by Means of Renewable Energy Use: The Austrian Province of Carinthia as an Illustration
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Policy initiatives and aspects
  • 3. Impacts of globalisation and market liberalisation
  • 4. Greenhouse gas abatement potential of renewables
  • 5. Resource, technology and social acceptance aspects of renewable energy use in the Alps
  • 6. The case of the Alpine province of Carinthia
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 12. Reducing the Global and Local Environmental Impact of Transport in the Alpine Region
  • 1. The Alpine region, a very sensitive area
  • 2. The OECD study on environmentally sustainable transport in the Alps
  • 3. The environmental and noise targets in Alpine transport for 2030
  • 4. Four scenarios for transport and environmental impacts
  • 5. Conclusions from the scenario analysis
  • 6. Economic and social implications of the combined technology and transport management scenario
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 13. Conclusions and Future Research Propects
  • 1. The global embedding of regional phenomena
  • 2. Global environmental change: conclusions for alpine regions
  • 3. Future research prospects
  • Index
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