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Natural wood lands, bogs and habitat network around Aussee (LIFE Ausseerland)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background The project area encompasses two main Natura 2000 (N2000) network sites, the “Styrian Dachstein plateau" (7 455 ha) and "Totes Gebirge" (16 178 ha). Two smaller N2000 network sites and several habitat connectivity corridors are also included within the project area. The main habitat type targeted by the project is forest. During recent centur ...
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LIFE+ River landscape development Enns (Flusslandschaft Enns)

Start date: Jan 10, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Background The project area around the river Enns (district of Liezen, Styria, Austria) covers a total area of 4 177 ha and consists of three Natura 2000 sites featuring a number of important habitats and species. The Enns meanders from one side of the river valley to the other, which has led to the development of valley bogs and alluvial forests along ...
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Strategia di pianificazione integrata del territorio per ambienti territoriali specifici del Wipptal (IREK) Integrales Raumentwicklungskonzept für ausgewählte Lebensräume des Wipptales (IREK) (IREK)

Start date: Jun 30, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

Questo progetto persegue i seguenti obiettivi: 1) Sviluppo e impiego di un metodo integrale di pianificazione, basato sull'analisi dei rischi naturali per uno sviluppo territoriale sostenibile negli spazi alpini. 2) Sviluppo di spazi alpini esistenti e futuri (=spazi economici e abitativi, infrastrutture incluse) mediante opere di mitigazione del pericolo e del rischio per la protezione di questi ...
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Life in Upper Drau River (LIFE Obere Drau II)

Start date: Sep 1, 2006, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

Background The Upper Drava (Obere Drau) Valley in Austria is the tectonic border between the Southern and Central Alps. The Drava River itself is typical of alpine areas. Formerly, the water system was much more diversified with side branches and alluvial waters, but these were modified to create a faster flowing, more homogenous river. This project foll ...
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Gesäuse - Conservation strategies for woodlands and rivers in the Gesäuse Mountains (LIFE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2005, End date: Feb 1, 2011,

Background Efforts to preserve the Nationalpark Gesäuse date back to the beginning of the 20th century. The area is now classified as a category II national park, in line with the criteria of the IUCN. The project area focussed on 10 300 ha, encompassing two Natura 2000 sites, and home to an impressive 25 habitats of European importance. Seven of the 25 ...
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Wild river landscape of the Tyrolean Lech (Tiroler Lech)

Start date: Apr 1, 2001, End date: Mar 31, 2007,

Background The Tyrolean river Lech, with its huge banks of gravel and broad zones of lowland riparian forest, is probably the last river in the northern Alps which is still more or less in its natural state. For over 60 km, the highly braided river occupies a gravel bed that is up to 100 m wide in parts. The course of the Lech is constantly changing due t ...
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Disaster Information System of ALPine regions (DIS-ALP)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

The management of natural risks in a mountainous environment and the prevention of disasters requires a broad and accessible information basis about former disasters, which is important for interdisciplinary and interregional research and for decisions to prevent disasters and deal with natural risks. But the information needs - defined by the practitioners of spatial planning, risk prevention and ...
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Mitigation of hydro-geological risk in Alpine catchments (CatchRisk)

Start date: Jun 30, 2002, End date: Jul 30, 2005,

The first objective of this project is to create a shared approach for the definition of hydro-geological risk scenarios in Alpine catchments and on alluvial fans. To achieve this all aspects of hydro-geological hazards affecting a catchment will be analysed, in particular: flooding and mass transport phenomena; droughts and aquifer depletion; and landslides, such as rockfalls, soil slips, and deb ...
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