The pilot area of Auronzo di Cadore (Belluno) - Università Ca

More documents

Recommendations

Info

the need of defining a commonly agreed trademark for “Auronzo in winter” and act accordingly. And, although economic rationale scored the highest, stakeholders were deeply aware of the importance of environmental indicators. In the discussion that followed the exercise, the uniqueness of the Municipal landscape and the obligation to promote the UNESCO brand, remained at the forefront. In terms of the preferred strategy, as expected, participants agreed that the only option implementable would be a mixture of the strategies analysed. Participation has been intense and constructive. Local actors participated actively in the exercise proposed and demonstrated awareness of both the current situation and potential risks related to impacts of climate change. In addition, they showed great creativity in identifying tailored strategies and willingness to discuss them. The participatory techniques adopted limited the unavoidable tensions between different perspectives. Moreover, they enable a longer-term discussion than the usual short-term political and administrative strategies. This will be a key, if not the utmost, factor for facing future challenges in the Municipality. There seems to be a spread preference, as the ClimAlpTour e-tool application in other pilot areas demonstrated, of the benefits that a less intensive infrastructural development strategy may be the way to achieve environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Generally, an intensive infrastructural strategy is penalised by the high cost of construction and its potentially negative impact on the environment. 52
(5) In general, a ski resort is considered to be snowreliable if, in 7 out of 10 winters, a sufficient snow covering of at least 30 to 50 cm is available for ski sport on at least 100 days between December 1 and April 15. 7 Conclusions ClimAlpTour’s key messages The exploratory and experimental case study of Auronzo di Cadore led to the development of a pilot application of the ClimAlpTour e-tool that could best exploit its capabilities for decision support. Later, the authors successfully tested its potentials for transferability and re-use in other Alpine destinations’ contexts, two located within the Aosta Valley (Monte Rosa and Valgrisenche) and two in Slovenia (Kranjska Gora and Soca Valley). Altogether, both from this experience and stakeholders’ feedback, there emerged the following conclusions. 1. The Alpine Region is extremely vulnerable but very diverse. The Alpine Region in Europe is among the areas that are most rapidly affected by climate change. However the local conditions are very different across the region in terms of expected changes in climate, tourism typology and intensity and capacity to adapt, making it impossible to envision a single way to tackle the issue. The project analysed 24 pilot areas with diverse environmental, social and economic conditions in order to provide a global perspective on the Alpine tourism. The preliminary results of the project confirm the lack of a single and simple strategy to cope with the issue at stake throughout the Alpine arc. 2. Climate change is a source of opportunities and threats. Summer tourism could benefit from climate change. Hotter summers (as in 2003) would bring more people to the mountains and activities on fresh water may become more viable. The tourism season could be extended. At the same time droughts, and in general an intensified pressure on water resources, are likely to happen more frequently in summer even in the Alps, the Water Tower of Europe. Conversely winter tourism will be challenged by the expected decrease in snow and ice cover. The negative implications for winter tourism and sports mainly concern snow reliability. Nowadays already 57 of the main 666 ski resorts of the European Alps are considered to not be snow-reliable (5) . However, climate change is also an opportunity for those resorts that are snow-reliable, as they will face less competition in the future. 3. The future socio-economic scenarios are as crucial as the climate conditions. In the last few decades, the positive trend of tourism demand in tourism has decreased in Alpine destinations and the average duration of the journey has diminished substantially. Many destinations have reached their maturity stage and the market is now saturated. Globalization has ex- 53
Page 1:
Climate change and its impacts on t
Page 4 and 5: work group Balbi S. 1,2 , Bonzanigo
Page 6 and 7: 5.1.4 5.2 6 6.1 6.1.1 6.2 6.3 7 Fig
Page 8 and 9: Preface The mountain area of the Ve
Page 10 and 11: 1 / Introduction: the ClimAlpTour p
Page 12 and 13: Fig. 1 Project’s structure for st
Page 14 and 15: Box 1 The report in brief 2 / Venet
Page 16 and 17: Fig. 3 The Three Peaks of Lavaredo
Page 18 and 19: conceived during the EU FP5 project
Page 20 and 21: culating environmental indicators,
Page 22 and 23: Box 2 SNA in brief 3 / Phase 1 / Ac
Page 24 and 25: (3) As it appears, tourists were ex
Page 26 and 27: Tab. 4 Characteristics of Auronzo
Page 28 and 29: Tab. 6 List of actors to invite to
Page 30 and 31: Box 3 Participatory development of
Page 32 and 33: Fig. 8 GIS map of areas of interest
Page 34 and 35: Fig. 10 Strategy SKINT after brains
Page 36 and 37: Tab. 10 Factors characterising wint
Page 38 and 39: Box 4 DSS design in brief 5 / Phase
Page 40 and 41: CLIMATE SCENARIO Tab. 13 CURRENT A1
Page 42 and 43: Fig. 15 Example of Google Earth bas
Page 44 and 45: 5.1.3 / Agent-Based Model (AWS1.0 )
Page 46 and 47: Fig. 17 ClimAlpTour e-tool’s cata
Page 48 and 49: Fig. 20 Indicators’ clustering 46
Page 50 and 51: Fig. 21 Weight elicitation exercise
Page 52 and 53: Fig. 23 Strategies ranking after we
Page 56 and 57: ponentially increased the number of
Page 58: References 56 Balbi et al. (2011).
show all

The pilot area of Auronzo di Cadore (Belluno) - Università Ca

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?