Alps - Development Flashcards
Give some glaciated landscape opportunities of the Alps (5)
Tourism - New Years Eve = biggest week with over 1 million people
Summer months, 20,000 people climb Mont Blanc - many take cable cars to see the glaciers or walk along mountain trails
30º temperature in valley bellow. Made Chamonix best location in the world for paragliding
100 million visit alps each year - white water rafting, Tour de Frace
Cable cars all powered by HEP in Chamonix
Give some glaciated challenges of the Alps (5)
Needs to have sustainable tourism to preserve the beauty of the landscape
Low paid jobs in towns mean less young people stay as houses too expensive due to tourists having 2nd homes
Tourism has increased business prices and rents causing small, traditional restaurants to be replaced by luxury outlets - old residents feeling like strangers in a town they grew up in
Many tourists arrive by car - huge environmental impacts, trains encouraged
Areas suffering frequent avalanches reduces appeal for tourists and lowers property prices
How many avalanches a year caused by skiers
10 - affects roads, houses and loss of life
Tourism generates millions of euros but…….(4)
Pollution/congestion
Rising house costs
Only creates low-paid seasonal jobs
Needs costly infrastructure
Define resilience
The psychological quality of strength of character - being able to respond positively to adversity
Define mitigation
Reducing or alleviating the impacts or severity of adverse conditions/events
Define adaption
Fitting into the natural system and local ways of life - which may involve changing behaviour
Forests cleared to build chalets causing an increased risk of……………….
Avalanche
Give some future positive implications for climate change in French Alps
Advances in technology - lifts faster and can carry more people at a time, reduce the number of cars on each route
More goats on mountainside causing a return of traditional meadows and increased biodiversity
Swiss goverment decided to phase out nuclear energy by 2050 - more HEP
All HEP infrastructure is being built undergound
