Mountains of Europe - Stakeholders, legitimization, delineation

Co-authors: Françoise Gerbaux, Anne Marie Granet-Abisset, Martin F. Price, Igor Lysenko, Erik Gloersen, Juliet J. Fall, Harald Egerer, Werner Bätzing, Paul Messerli, Thomas Scheurer Publisher(s): Revue de Géographie Alpine Institut de Géographie Alpine Website  http://rga.revues.org/ Place of publication: Grenoble ISBN/ISSN: 0035-1121 Number of pages: 144 Language: en, fr Purchase: http://rga.revues.org/ Journal: Revue de géographie alpine - Journal of Alpine Research Page(s): 144 Magazine No.: Bd. 92, Nr. 2, Juni 2004

The publication focuses on three main points: the development of political programmes and organisations that advocate an improvement in the situation in mountain regions; the new role and location of alpine regions, which as a result of the EU's enlargement to the east have shifted from a geographically marginal position to the very centre of Europe; the geographic definition and description of European mountains. A great deal of space is dedicated to both the Alpine Convention and the Carpathian Convention.