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Alpenatlas

Aktualisierung des Alpenatlas

Die Sammlung und Generierung alpenweiter Rauminformationen steht seit vielen Jahren im Mittelpunkt des Interesses des Instituts. Diese Daten dienen nicht nur der Darstellung von Entwicklungen im Alpenraum, sondern werden in vielen Projekten auch als Grundlage für räumliche und statistische Analysen verwendet. Lag der Fokus ursprünglich auf den drei Nachhaltigkeitssäulen Umwelt, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft, so werden nun zunehmend Karten generiert, die den aktuellen Zustand bzw. Veränderungen im Bereich der Ökosystemdienstleistungen, der Folgen des Landnutzungs- und Klimawandels und den 17 UN-Nachhaltigkeitszielen (insbesondere die Ziele 11-15) veranschaulichen.

Project duration: January 2018 - December 2025
Project status:
Funding:
Internal funding EURAC (Project)
Institute: Institut für Alpine Umwelt

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Scientific Publications

Journal article2021

Effects of past landscape changes on aesthetic landscape values in the European Alps

Schirpke U, Zoderer B, Tappeiner U, Tasser E

Uta Schirpke, Erich Tasser, Ulrike Tappeiner

Understanding the consequences of land-use changes on aesthetic values associated with mountain landscapes is important for decision-making and landscape planning. While most research on aesthetic landscape values has been carried out at small scales and disregarding landscape changes, this study aims at analysing changes in aesthetic landscape values for three time steps between 1950 and 2010 across the European Alps. We first map aesthetic values at the landscape scale for selected municipalities using a spatially explicit modelling approach that relates people’s landscape preferences with visual landscape characteristics. We then transfer mean values at the municipality level to compare aesthetic values across space and over time. Our results indicate heterogeneous spatial patterns of aesthetic values: Highest aesthetic values were located mainly in the central high-elevated Alps, while lowest aesthetic values occurred at lower elevations with intensive agriculture or dense settlement areas. Between 1950 and 2010, aesthetic values generally decreased due to changes in agricultural activities, with lower elevated areas being more affected than those at higher elevations. While the abandonment of summer pastures led to more homogeneous landscape patterns and hence to reduced aesthetic values due to an increase in forest areas and the closing of open patches, the change from arable land to other land-use/cover types had positive effects in some low-elevated areas. Such knowledge on the relationships between landscape changes and aesthetic values may provide an important basis for developing management strategies of mountain landscapes.

DOI Quelle

DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104109

Journal article2021

The plurality of wilderness beliefs and their mediating role in shaping attitudes towards wilderness

Zoderer B, Tasser E

Erich Tasser

In light of current trends of land abandonment across Europe, the rewilding of abandoned land is increasingly discussed as a future land management option. Since many of the regions affected by rewilding developments will be located in vicinity to densely populated areas, it is imperative to better understand public's attitudes towards an expansion of wilderness. Prior research on wilderness attitudes has typically been descriptive and rarely explored the underlying processes that lead to differences in wilderness attitudes. Taking the Theory of Planned Behaviour as our framework of analysis, we examine public attitudes towards wilderness in the context of people's beliefs of wilderness, and to what extent these beliefs can explain differences in wilderness attitudes between social groups. Results of a questionnaire survey (n = 858) in the mountain region of South Tyrol in the Central Alps show that wilderness attitudes are significantly influenced by three dimensions of wilderness beliefs, corresponding to 1) respondents' general wilderness representations, 2) perceived extent of wilderness areas, and 3) expected consequences of wilderness expansion. In addition, significant differences in wilderness attitudes are found between age groups, user groups, and groups with varying degrees of interest in wildlife watching. Our results indicate that these differences are partly related to contradictory views of wilderness, suggesting that it is not only conflicting interests that may lead to differences in wilderness attitudes between social groups. We conclude that participatory processes are needed to consider the plurality of people's wilderness representations and their perception of risks and benefits for the design and implementation of socially-just rewilding initiatives.

DOI Quelle

DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111392

Journal article2021

Trends in Ecosystem Services across Europe Due to Land-Use/Cover Changes

Schirpke U, Tasser E

Uta Schirpke, Erich Tasser

The growing pressure on society due to global change requires better integration of ecosystem services (ES) into decision-making. Despite a growing number of ES assessments, Europe-wide information on recent changes of multiple ES is still rare. This study aimed at analysing changes in ES values between 2000 and 2018 across Europe based on land use/land cover (LULC) distribution. We mapped 19 ES for 52 ecoregions and identified six major groups of ecoregions with similar LULC distribution and trends. Our results indicated that provisioning ES mainly increased in the forest-dominated region (G2), decreasing in the near-natural grassland region (G1), the region with agricultural mixed systems (G3), and the intensively-used steppic region (G6). Regulating ES slightly decreased in G1 and G6, but increased in G2 and the wetland-dominated region (G5). Cultural ES had generally low negative trends for most ecoregions. In addition, our results revealed ecoregions with differing trends in ES that could be related to specific socioeconomic developments. Our findings provide spatial and quantitative information that can be used for policy development at European national and regional levels—as well as for monitoring of ES.

DOI Quelle

DOI: 10.3390/su13137095

Journal article2021

What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?

Schirpke U, Tasser E, Ebner M, Tappeiner U

Uta Schirpke, Erich Tasser, Ulrike Tappeiner

Natural and artificial lakes provide multiple cultural ecosystem services (CES), but they are largely underrepresented in CES assessments, which mostly focus on individual large lakes. Social media data may offer an opportunity to analyse CES of lakes at regional scales. This study therefore aims at exploring the use of photos uploaded to the photo-sharing platform Flickr for analysing CES of 2,807 lakes in the European Alps. We (1) explained the spatial distribution of photo-user-days (PUD), (2) examined the importance of lakes in providing CES, and (3) identified key CES through text analysis of user-generated tags. Our results indicate that good physical accessibility and proximity to densely populated areas mostly increase PUD density, although temporal accessibility is limited to a few summer months for mountain lakes. Based on 418 unique tags, we identified 12 different CES, including aesthetic experiences and recreation. Less prominent CES included sense of place or ‘culture & heritage’. Our findings suggest that lakes are important for providing multiple CES, but future research should include user survey data to deepen the understanding of people’s perceptions and preferences.

DOI Quelle

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101354

All Publications

What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?
Schirpke U, Tasser E, Ebner M, Tappeiner U (2021)
Zeitschriftenartikel
Ecosystem Services

Weitere Informationen: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101354

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101354

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18756

Trends in Ecosystem Services across Europe Due to Land-Use/Cover Changes
Schirpke U, Tasser E (2021)
Zeitschriftenartikel
Sustainability

Weitere Informationen: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137095

https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137095

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18597

Effects of past landscape changes on aesthetic landscape values in the European Alps
Schirpke U, Zoderer B, Tappeiner U, Tasser E (2021)
Zeitschriftenartikel
Landscape and Urban Planning

Weitere Informationen: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104109

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104109

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18759

Our partners

CIPRA France, Comité français de la Commission Internationale pour la Protection des Alpes

Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine

Universität Innsbruck, Fakultät für Biologie, Institut für Ökologie

Centre For Studies and Expertise on Risks, Environment, Mobility, and Urban and Country planning

Institut für Umweltplanung und Raumentwicklung

Safe Mountain Foundation

Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente Piemonte, Centro Regionale per le Ricerche ...

Alpenkonvention

Anton Melik Geographical Institute

Institut für Gebirgsforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Institute of Republic of Slovenia for Natur Conservation

Veneto Region, Parks Biodiversity and Forest Planning Section (PBFPS)

Project Team

Erich Tasser

Ulrike Tappeiner

Caroline Pecher

Lukas Egarter Vigl

Uta Schirpke

Thomas Marsoner

Journal article2021

The plurality of wilderness beliefs and their mediating role in shaping attitudes towards wilderness

Zoderer B, Tasser E

Erich Tasser

DOI Quelle

DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111392

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