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Alpine landscapes under global change: Impacts of land-use change on regulating ecosystem services, biodiversity, human health and well-being - Projekttteil ILEN
- Project Leader
- Arnberger Arne, Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.01.2015-31.01.2019
- Programme:
- Earth System Sciences (ESS)
- Type of Research
- Basic Research
- Project partners
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Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Social Sciences in Landscape Research Group, Research Unit Economics and Social Sciences, Switzerland.
Contact person: Dr. Nicole Bauer;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
- Staff
- Eder Renate, Sub Projectleader
- Preisel Hemma, Project Staff
- Allex Brigitte, Project Staff (bis 30.09.2021)
- Ebenberger Martin, Project Staff (bis 31.10.2015)
- Böhm Sarah, Project Staff (bis 31.10.2015)
- Schlagbauer Tamara, Project Staff (bis 31.08.2019)
- BOKU Research Units
- Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning
- Institute of Zoology
- Abstract
- Changes in agricultural practices and policies, low farm income and depopulation of rural areas have resulted in the abandonment of traditionally managed mountainous landscapes globally and across the Alps. Such historic landscapes, e.g. alpine pastures, however, harbour a high biodiversity, attract tourists and may even positively influence human health. Today’s western societies are faced with a growing incidence of poor health because of mental stress and sedentary lifestyles. Natural landscapes are increasingly seen as restorative settings, compensating for negative psycho-physiological effects on humans. The extent of these positive effects, however, may depend on the landscape quality. However, so far restorative research has neglected the role of such mountainous landscapes for human health. In addition, possible linkages between cultural ecosystem services such as human health and well-being, biodiversity, and regulating ecosystem services (pollinator activity, soil decomposition rate, greenhouse gas emission) have never been investigated for such landscapes. Therefore, the ecosystem services of these landscapes cannot be fully considered in political decision making, and in the design of agro-environmental, public health and nature conservation policies and measures. If cultural landscapes of biosphere reserves are specifically effective in providing restorative effects, then such benefits can be used for regional development by exploiting the natural-cultural capital for new health-related commercial offers in a sustainable way, thereby preserving such valuable historic landscapes.
“Healthy Alps” investigates whether and to what extent
1) regulating ecosystem services, biodiversity, human health and well-being are connected
2) land-use intensities and land-use abandonment of cultural landscapes have an impact on human health and well-being and that these differently managed landscapes are perceived as restorative by humans
3) soundscapes are useful tools for measuring linkages between biodiversity and human health
- Keywords
- Zoology; Public health; Stress research; Landscape conservation; Cultural landscape research; Landscape planning;
- Biodiversity research; land use; Landscape conservation; human health and well-being; ecosystem services;
- Publications
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** Walcher, R; Hussain, RI; Karrer, J; Bohner, A; Brand, D; Zaller, JG; Arnberger, A; Frank, T Effects of management cessation on hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) across Austrian and Swiss mountain meadows.
WEB ECOL. 2020; 20(2): 143-152.
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Arnberger, A (2019): Linking urban outdoor recreation with health benefits on a city scale level – a first approach.
In: De Vreese, R., Urban Forests: Full of Energy, p. 21
[European Forum of Urban Forestry, Urban Forests EFUF 2019 - Full of Energy, Cologne, Germany, 22.05.2019 - 24.05.2019] -
** Arnberger, A; Eder, R; Allex, B; Ebenberger, M; Hutter, HP; Wallner, P; Bauer, N; Zaller, JG; Frank, T; Health-Related Effects of Short Stays at Mountain Meadows, a River and an Urban Site-Results from a Field Experiment..
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018; 15(12):
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** Arnberger, A; Eder, R; Allex, B; Hutter, HP; Wallner, P; Bauer, N; Zaller, JG; Frank, T Perceived health benefits of managed and unmanaged meadows in a mountain biosphere reserve - an experimental study in the Austrian Alps.
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Hutter, HP; Weitensfelder, L; Wanek, G; Wallner, G; Eder, R; Allex, B; Bauer, N; Zaller, J G; Frank, T; Arnberger, A (2018): Healthy Alps: Effekte alpiner Wiesen auf die kognitive Leistungsfähigkeit.
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Arnberger, A.; Allex, A.; Eder, R.; Hutter, H-P.; Wallner, P. (2018): Do urban environments with different degrees of naturalness differently effect human health and wellbeing?.
In: Gesellschaft für Ökologie e.V. (GfÖ), Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie · Band 47/48
[48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2018 - Ecology – Meeting the Scientific Challenges of a complex World, Vienna, Austria, 10.09.2018 - 14.09.2018] -
ARNBERGER, A., ALLEX, B., EDER, R., HUTTER, H.-P., WALLNER, P., BAUER, N., ZALLER, J.G. & FRANK, T. (2018): Protected areas’ landscapes as resources for human health and well-being – case studies from Austria.
In: Salzburger Nationalparkfonds, 6th Symposium for Research in Protected Areas Conference Volume , pp. 11-13; ISBN: 978-3-7001-8317-4 FullText
[6th Symposium for Research in Protected Areas 2017, Salzburg, Austria, 02.11.2017 - 03.11.2017] -
Bohner, A; Karrer, J; Walcher, R; Brandl, D; Michel, K; Arnberger, A; Frank, T; Zaller, JG (2018): Ökologische Auswirkungen der Flächenstilllegung von gemähten Halbtrockenrasen: Fallstudien in drei Bergregionen in den Ostalpen.
, Carinthia II, 68, 15-15
[18. Österreichische Botanik-Tagung & 24. Internationale Tagung der Sektion für Biodiversität und Evolutionsbiologie der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 2018, Klagenfurt, Austria, 19.09.2018 - 22.09.2018] -
Jernej, I; Bohner, A; Walcher, R; Hussain, R; Arnberger, A; Zaller, JG; Frank, T (2018): Impacts of land use intensity in mountain semi-dry meadows on earthworms, litter decomposition and plant diversity. [Poster]
, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20, 19585-19585
[European Geosciences Union EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 08.04.2018 - 13.04.2018] -
Jernej, I; Bohner, A; Walcher, R; Hussain, RI; Arnberger, A; Zaller, JG; Frank, T (2018): Impacts of land use intensity in mountain semi-dry meadows on earthworms, litter decomposition and plant diversity. [Poster]
, Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie, 48, 49-49
[48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2018 - Ecology – Meeting the Scientific Challenges of a complex World, Vienna, Austria, 10.09.2018 - 14.09.2018] -
Arnberger, A., Eder, R., Allex, B., Hutter, H.-P., Bauer, N., Hofmann, M., Zaller, J.G., Frank, T. (2017): Restorative effects of managed and unmanaged Alpine meadows .
In: Austrian Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape & Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Eds.). , Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Landscape and Human Health: Forests, Parks and Green Care , p. 44; ISBN: 978-3-902762-79-5 FullText
[3rd International Conference on Landscape and Human Health 2017 - Forests, Parks and Green Care, Vienna, Austria, 17.05.2017 - 19.05.2017] -
Arnberger, A; Eder, R; Böhm, S; Ebenberger, M (2015): Healthy Alps: Erfassung der Erholungswirkung einer bewirtschafteten Bergwiese in der Steiermark.
Medi.um, 4, 4-4 -
Frank, T; Arnberger, A (2015): Healthy Alps - Alpine landscapes under global change: Impacts of land-use change on regulating ecosystem services, biodiversity, human health and well-being.
Finanziert von: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), 12
- Vorträge
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Arnberger, A. (2017): Protected areas' landscapes as resources for human health and well-being.
6th Symposium for Research in Protected Areas, Nov. 2-3, Salzburg -
Frank, T; Arnberger, A; Zaller, JG; Bauer, N; Walcher, R; Karrer, J; Eder, R; Ebenberger, M; Hofmann, M; Hutter, HP; Sachslehner, L; Michel, K, Bohner, A (2016): Healthy Alps - Alpine landscapes under global Change: Impacts of land-use change on regulating ecosystem Services, biodiversity, human health and well-being.
ESS Projektworkshop (ÖAW), JAN 14, 2016, Vienna, AUSTRIA -
Frank, T; Arnberger, A; Zaller, JG; Bauer, N; Walcher, R; Karrer, J; Eder, R; Ebenberger, M; Hofmann, M; Hutter, HP; Sachslehner, L; Michel, K, Bohner, A (2016): Healthy Alps - Alpine landscapes under global change: Impacts of land-use change on regulating ecosystem services, biodiversity, human health and well-being. [Poster]
ESS Projektworkshop (ÖAW), JAN 14, 2016, Vienna, AUSTRIA