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Data Infrastructure for the Alps:
Mountain Orientated Network Technology

Alpine Space, Priority 1, Measure 1

The ESDP identifies the Alps as one of the sensitive regions in Europe. The AC aims to ensure a sustainable development of this unique region including several nationalities, languages, cultures, governance systems and strong contrasts between the natural regions in North and South, East and West. It therefore needs more thorough knowledge on the specific structures and problems of the Alpine space. Past attempts to analyse these have chiefly drawn on AC norms and definitions and did thus not necessarily take into account the demands of the Alpine population. The new concept of SOIA encourages a more inclusive approach to an Alpine wide development perspective and identifies an urgent demand for interactive communication with the public, policy makers and the scientific community. In close co-ordination with the AC's general secretary, DIAMONT's Alpine wide approach, cross-disciplinary and inter-sectoral partnership, participatory strategy and practical use will fill these gaps.

DIAMONT aims to:

contribute to common perspectives of sustainable development in the Alpine bow,
support the re-conceptualisation of the SOIA approach and thus.

In order to do this the project will

determine regional disparities influencing development processes,
identify Alpine wide key issues and prospects of sustainable development,
elaborate indicator based and qualitative regional development tools.

Description

DIAMONT aims to
• identify different cultures of regional development,
• conduct a Delphi survey among Alpine stakeholders serving to formulate key questions concerning common visions of spatial planning for the whole Alpine space,
• deduct the drivers influencing sustainable development from the synopsis of regional development and the survey,
• determine the variables/indicators representing these drivers and identify relevant basic data for SOIA,
• specify data quality standards and check data availability,
• harmonise Alpine wide data supplied by SOIA,
• test the applicability and the validity of the data,
• make first multivariate analyses on the Alps in order to identify clusters of similar regional development,
• elaborate and optimise indicator based and qualitative tools to stimulate and steer regional development,
• test the developed tools in six pilot test regions in workshops involving stakeholders, shareholders and citizens and allowing for intercultural exchange of best practice,
• integrate the results of the participative phase into the DIAMONT instruments,
• facilitate permanent discussions with SOIA and provide SOIA with conceptual ideas and structural foundations for an Alpine wide information system,
• present and disseminate the results on local, regional, transregional and EU levels.

For further information: Diamont Homepage

Period: 2005-2008

Partners

• Lead Partner: Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/)
• Scientific Lead Partner: European Accademy of Bozen/Bolzano, Institute for Alpine Environment,
• Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (http://www.zrc-sazu.si/gi/)
• Bosch & Partner GmbH (http://www.bosch-partnergmbh.de/)
• CEMAGREF - Groupement de Grenoble (http://www.grenoble.cemagref.fr/grenoble/)
• Institut für Umweltplanung, Landschaftsplanung und Naturschutz, IFUPLAN (http://www.ifuplan.de/)
• Unione Nazionale Comuni Communità Enti Montani (http://www.uncem.it/)
• Forschungsstelle für Wirtschaftsgeographie und Raumordnungspolitik (http://www.fwr.unisg.ch/)

Observers

• Agenzia provinciale per l'ambiente, Bolzano (http://www.provinz.bz.it/umweltagentur/index_i.asp)
• Alliance in the Alps (http://www.alpenallianz.org/)
• Alpine Convention (http://www.convenzionedellealpi.org/index.htm)
• ASCOMALP - Associazione Commercianti Alpini (http://www.ascomalpi.it/ascom.alpi)
• BAS - Bundesamt für Statistik Neuchâtel (www.statistik.admin.ch/)
• Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (http://www.lebensministerium.at/)
• CIPRA (http://www.cipra.org/cipra_international.htm)
• Club Arc Alpin (http://www.alpenverein.or.at/)
• RAEP - Réseau Alpin des Espaces Protégés (http://www.alparc.org/1024-index.phtml)
• StMUGV, Bayer. Staatsministerium für Umwelt (http://www.stmugv.bayern.de/)
• TEO - Institut de Géographie Alpine (http://iga.ujf-grenoble.fr/territoires/index.htm)
• Umweltbundesamt Berlin (www.umweltbundesamt.de/)

Contact

Ulrike Tappeiner

Erich Tasser

Selected publications

Diamont Folder

Borsdorf A., Lange S. (Eds.) (2006) Politische, kulturelle und wissenschaftliche Perspektiven der nachhaltigen Raumentwicklung in den Alpen. Erste Ergebnisse des an der LFU Innsbruck koordinierten EU-Projektes DIAMONT. University press, Innsbruck.
Tappeiner U., Borsdorf A., Tasser E., Lange S. (Eds.) (2007) DIAMONT 1 - Analysing the influence of cultural differences on regional development in the Alps. European Academy Bozen-Bolzano, Arbeitsheft/Quaderno 47, Bozen.
Tappeiner U., Borsdorf A., Tasser E., Lange S. (Eds.) (2007) DIAMONT 2 - Analysis of Experts' Assessments of Alpine Development. European Academy Bozen-Bolzano, Arbeitsheft/Quaderno 48, Bozen.
Borsdorf A., Grabherr G (Eds.) (2007) Internationale Gebirgsforschung. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Innsbruck.

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