| | The mission of the first DIAMONT study, carried out in work package 5 and led by Martin Boesch, was to enhance the understanding of the influence of cultural differences on regional development in the context of a sustainable future in the Alps. The study revealed that the traditional influences of most cultural factors on regional policy are decreasing (while still intuitively present in our perception), leaving an open trail to a generalized development, which generates its peaks and shallows more from globally determined location qualities (like easy access and urbanization) than from local or regional culture, which in itself tends to become more uniform. This in turn is a clear signal to DIAMONT: For monitoring regional development in the Alpine Convention context we must not spend to much efforts on indicators based in traditional cultural differences, but more on indicators measuring sustainable progress in a globalizing world. |
