Management Strategies and Landscape Diversity in Commonly Governed Mountain Pastures: A Case Study from Austrian Alps

Kurz, Peter

doi:10.2478/euco-2013-0014

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“…As a result, areas of extensification are frequently not only are characterised by low input of resources (manure, plant protection products etc. ), but also by minimised input of labour for their management and maintenance (Kurz 2009a(Kurz , 2010(Kurz , 2013. This underlines the findings described by…”

Section: Landscape Effects (2): Extensification and Land Abandonment mentioning

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Between Smallholder Traditions and “Ecological Modernisation” – Agricultural Transformation, Landscape Change and the Cap in Austria 1995–2015

Kurz

2018

European Countryside

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The paper explores transformations in agriculture during the period 1995-2015 and shows their impact on rural landscapes in the case of Austria. When Austria joined the European Union in 1995, this meant a minor gash in agricultural politics, from broad support of smallholder agriculture to a programme of modernisation and rationalisation. Austrian politicians defined this shift as a process of "ecological modernisation" (Fischler et al. 1994), incorporating agri-environmental schemes as instruments and modifying existing programmes of direct payments. The survey forms the groundwork for a discussion on landscape effects of the CAP as an "ecological" modernisation programme and possible impact of the CAP-reform 2020.

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Between Smallholder Traditions and “Ecological Modernisation” – Agricultural Transformation, Landscape Change and the Cap in Austria 1995–2015

Kurz

2018

European Countryside

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“…They provide low-cost fodder for grazing livestock during the summer period and -where traditional transhumance systems are presentrepresent a complementary resource for Mediterranean pastoral systems (Caballero et al, 2009). Shaped by pastoral activities, alpine pastures have undergone multiple transformations over the centuries, mainly driven by the fragile balance between maximising agricultural productivity and the limits imposed by the temporal and spatial dynamics of the climate and forests-grasslands interactions (Kurz, 2013). However, alpine pastoralism manifests its fragility in the face of the changes induced by recent global warming.…”

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Uncertainties in the adaptation of alpine pastures to climate change based on remote sensing products and modelling

Brilli

Martin

Argenti

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Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Einen prägenden Einfluss auf die Berglandschaft bildet die Almwirtschaft, wo über angepasste Systeme der Weidehaltung und begleitende Arbeiten zur (Re-)kultivierung, Melioration und Pflege ein differenziertes Inventar von Ausstattungselementen und Vegetationstypen geformt wurde. Neben den unmittelbaren Nutzungsabsichten spielten dabei Überlegungen zu Nährstoffökonomie, Landschaftssicherung und zur Erhaltung der Variabilität und der Spielräume für künftige Nutzungen eine Rolle (Bätzing 1991;Kurz 2009Kurz , 2013. Heute bilden agrarische Modernisierungsund Rationalisierungsprozesse (Mechanisierung, Technisierung) die treibenden Kräfte für Veränderungen der Landschafts-und Vegetationsmuster des Alpenraums.…”

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Lärchweiden im Toten Gebirge, Dachsteingebiet und der Osterhorngruppe: Struktur und Dynamiken ihrer Vegetation im Gefolge von Rücknahme und Aufgabe der Nutzung

Kurz

2023

Stapfia

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Larch pastures are use-stabilized features of alpine cultural landscapes, which are characterized by a two-layer structure made of a loose screen of European larch (Larix decidua) with pastures underneath. As a product of rural alpine farming, larch pastures are widespread in the traditional use systems on both siliceous and carbonate subsoils in the high montane-subalpine altitudinal zone of the Alps (cf. Mayer 1974; 31f.). The combination of geology and cultivation shows a remarkable floristic diversity, especially in the case of formations over carbonate substrates. Rationalizations within alpine farming since the decades after the Second World War - and again accelerating within the past 20 years - promote dynamic changes within the vegetation composition of many larch pastures. The paper reconstructs the vegetation dynamics on larch pastures on carbonate under the influence of decline in use and abandonment using examples in Totes Gebirge, Dachstein massif and Osterhorn group. Via the tabular comparison of phytosociological vegetation recordings from eleven alpine pastures that are currently managed at various levels of intensity or were abandoned at different times, the directions and stages of dynamics are traced and the development of the number of species is examined.

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Management Strategies and Landscape Diversity in Commonly Governed Mountain Pastures: A Case Study from Austrian Alps

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Between Smallholder Traditions and “Ecological Modernisation” – Agricultural Transformation, Landscape Change and the Cap in Austria 1995–2015

Between Smallholder Traditions and “Ecological Modernisation” – Agricultural Transformation, Landscape Change and the Cap in Austria 1995–2015

Uncertainties in the adaptation of alpine pastures to climate change based on remote sensing products and modelling

Lärchweiden im Toten Gebirge, Dachsteingebiet und der Osterhorngruppe: Struktur und Dynamiken ihrer Vegetation im Gefolge von Rücknahme und Aufgabe der Nutzung

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