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Home / Regional / Europe / Switzerland / Science and Environment / Alpine Environment
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Web Sites
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- CLEAR - Climate and Environment in Alpine Regions - Information platform and description of the trans-disciplinary project on climate change in an Alpine region. Includes 15 sub-projects.
clear.eawag.ch
- Glaciological Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences - Publications of the Swiss Glacier and Permafrost Monitoring Network. Few articles online.
www.vaw.ethz.ch/vi/vaw_gz.vi_web/project/sanw.html
- Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn Region - World Heritage site. Brief note on why the most glaciated part of the Alps was inscribed in 2000.
www.unesco.org/whc/sites/1037.htm
- Primalp - An interdisciplinary ETHZ research project on sustainable agriculture and forestry in the Alpine region. Read project presentation, abstracts, and biography.
www.primalp.ethz.ch
- Swiss Alpine Studies - Inter-academies commission on Swiss alpine research. Current events, extensive database of alpine research projects, institutions and contacts. Site with crosslingual userinterface.
www.alpinestudies.unibe.ch
- Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research Davos - SLF in Davos provides snow and avalanche information for Switzerland, in winter mainly. In English, site includes a short overview of the institution's organization.
www.slf.ch
- The Alpine Landscape of Grindelwald - Presentation of a pilot research project of the Centre for Development and Environment of University of Berne to foster understanding for the beauty of the landscape, diversity of habitats and rarity of vegetation and fauna.
www.cde.unibe.ch/griwa_e/intro.htm
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