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Contacts Project Management Regional
Consulting Ziviltechniker Gesellschaft
m.b.H. Wolfgang Pfefferkorn A-1050 Wien,
Schlossgasse 11fon 43 1 544 07 80, fax 43 1
548 49 56email pfefferkorn_at_rosinak.co.athttp//
www.regcon.co.at Member of Associated Consultants
Europe B-1000 Brussels, Rue de la Presse 11fon
32 2 219 19 73, fax [phone] Project
partners Austria Regional Consulting ZT
GmbH Switzerland University of Berne, Institute
for Geography Hans-Rudolf Egli, fon 41 31 631 88
66, fax [phone], email
egli_at_giub.unibe.ch, www.giub.unibe.ch France Cemag
ref, Groupement de Grenoble Josette Barruet, fon
33 76 76 27 26, fax [phone],
email josette.barruet_at_cemagref.fr,
www.cemagref.fr Germany Alpine Research Institute
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Peter Eggensberger, fon
49 8821 183 300, fax [phone], email
eggensberger_at_alpenforschung.de,
www.alpenforschung.de Italy University of Udine,
Department of Economic Science Antonio
Massarutto, fon 39 0432 24 92 8, fax [phone]
92 29, email antonio.massarutto_at_dse.uniud.it,
web.uniud.it Slovenia Urban Planning Institute of
the Republic of Slovenia Barbara Cernic-Mali, fon
386 1 420 13 15, fax [phone], email
barbara.cernic_at_urbinstitut.si, www.urbinstitut.si
www.regalp.at QLRT-CT-2000-02329, March 2002
Tasks and expected results 1. Policy
screening The research team will describe the
administrative structures and point out the
relevance of the land-scape issue in various EU
and national policy areas. 2. Regional
development and landscape change The analysis of
all Alpine municipalities and special-ly of the
pilot regions will help to find a new
under-standing of the interrelation between
regional de-velopment and cultural landscape
change in the last 30 years. 3. Policy
evaluation The evaluation of selected EU and
national policies will point out how programmes,
laws and plans may influence the change of
cultural landscape. 4. Landscape scenarios for
the Alps in 2020 The cultural landscape scenarios
for the Alps in ge-neral as well as detailed
scenarios for different pilot regions will show
options How will people live and work in 2020?
What will landscape look like? 5. Future
workshops in the pilot regions The local
workshops in the pilot regions will make public
the view of locals What do they expect for their
future, what do they want from politics, what can
they contribute to a sustainable development of
their regions? 6. Adjusting policies The final
result of REGALP will be detailed propo-sals how
to adjust selected EU and national poli-cies.
These proposals which include also suitable modes
of implementation will be discussed with the
concerned bodies in the European Union and in the
partner countries. Project duration September
2001 to August 2004
Regional Development and Cultural Landscape
Change The Example of the Alps Evaluating and
Adjusting EU and National Policies to Manage a
Balanced Change
www.regalp.at Regional Consulting,
Vienna University of Berne, Institute for
Geography Cemagref, Groupement de
Grenoble Alpine Research Institute
Garmisch-Partenkirchen University of Udine,
Department of Economic Sciences Urban Planning
Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana

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REGALP Regional development and cultural
landscape change

In the last years cultural landscape as a
resource and a locational factor has become more
important in regional development, and in the
future land-scape will play a still bigger role
in tourism, agri-culture and locational
development. In medium term, European regions and
landscapes are facing extensive changes. The
interrelation between regional development and
cultural landscape change has not yet been
comprehensively examined. Existing policy
instru-ments do not always sufficiently take
these inter-relations into account, and EU or
national program-mes may even have a harmful
influence on cultural landscape. Therefore they
should be adjusted to meet future requirements
with regard to sustainable development. The Alps
are a suitable research area to examine these key
questions. Since about five years time, the
role of landscapes as a political issue at the
European level has been steadily increasing.
Despite the absence of formal, statutory European
instruments for landscapes, they have captured
the interest of both scientific and governmental
bodies alike. ... Like no other discipline, a
landscape approach offers holistic assessment and
planning tools to define and de-velop the
interface between nature and culture. Hence,
landscape, as the place of human inter-action
with nature appears to be the heart of
sustainability (European Centre for Nature
Conservation, 2000).

• Research team
• Research institutions and planning offices from
  six Alpine countries are taking part in the
  REGALP project.
• The partners analyse the interrelations between
  regional development, landscape and policies for
  the entire Alpine area.
• REGALP is not only an international, but also an
  inter- and transdisciplinary research project
  experts from various scientific disciplines
  (eco-nomic, political and agrarian science,
  geography, spatial and landscape planning) are
  working together. Each partner is responsible for
  one work package, and all partners participate in
  all work packages.
• In every country a pilot region will be selected,
  where the REGALP team will work in close
  co-operation with local actors.

• Project aim
• The research project REGALP aims to contribute to
  a balanced and sustainable regional develop-ment
  by proposing adjustments to European and national
  policies. In doing so REGALP can draw upon the
  European Spatial Development Strategy as well as
  upon landscape oriented goals of the Common
  Agricultural Policy.