Climate Change on Alpine Communities (Abondance, France)

Question 1

Where

Answer 1

Abondance in the Haute-Savoie region of France

Question 2

How many years of unreliable snowfall

Answer 2

15 years

Question 3

When did it shut

Answer 3

2007 the ski lifts closed down

Question 4

Council’s plans

Answer 4

1. Develop other forms of winter sports which require less deep snow eg snowshoeing and ski touring
2. Develop it’s summer programme to enable the town to become and all-year round resort eg mountain biking and hiking

Question 5

Problem

Answer 5

Tourism development can harm fragile environments

1. Effect ecosystems and habitats
2. Trees removed which bind soil together
3. Natural vegetation stripped
4. Increase pollution

Question 6

How are ecosystems effected

Answer 6

Road construction or building of houses and hotels

Question 7

Tree removal

Answer 7

Cut down to make room for developments but as they hold soil together this can create unstable land and they also break up avalanches

Question 8

How is natural vegetation stripped

Answer 8

Overuse of slopes for skiing and strip vegetation which has taken years to establish
Mountain biking creates gullies

Question 9

Increasing pollution

Answer 9

Can be noise due to congestion and this causes natural landscape to lose some of its appeal and attractiveness

Question 10

Other resorts

Answer 10

Other low altitude resorts will build ski lifts which join them to other higher resorts eg in Austria to open up the Gepatsch Glacier

Question 11

New cable cars

Answer 11

In Lisenser Fernerkogel