The Bavarian Regional Partnership (Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Bayern) used the International Year of Mountains as an opportunity to examine the Alpine region from a spatial planning perspective. The issues considered were the development of the Alpine region, taking into account communities, settlement development, tourism and transport development; the significance of the Alpine Convention; and the role of the spatial structural plans for the Bavarian and Austrian Alpine regions. Economic, social and demographic change presents a particular challenge for the sustainable development of the Alpine Region, which must be appropriate for this diverse and outstanding European natural landscape. An important aspect of this is a consistent application of the possibilities of spatial planning policy, which must provide visible achievements.
Source: http://www.arl-net.de