===== Glossary ===== //including {{popup>%:wiki:alpes_project_term%?[%150x200%]|AlpES Project Terms}}// === A === * [[:wiki:abiotic_processes_alpes|Abiotic Processes]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:abiotic_services_alpes|Abiotic Services]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:accessibility|Accessibility]] refers to the ease of reaching destinations. In addition to physical accessibility through transport infrastructure, connectivity through advanced telecommunication systems contributes to improving the intangible accessibility of areas. * [[:wiki:aesthetic_values|Aesthetic Value]] * [[:wiki:alpine_convention|Alpine Convention]] * [[:wiki:alpine_ecosystem_service_alpes|Alpine Ecosystem Service]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:alps|Alps]] * [[:wiki:assessment_alpes|Assessment]] **AlpES Project Term** === B === * [[:wiki:beneficiaries_alpes|Beneficiaries]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:benefits_alpes|Benefits]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:biodiversity_alpes|Biodiversity]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:biodiversity|Biodiversity]] or biological diversity means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems. * [[:wiki:biomass_alpes|Biomass]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:grassland_biomass?s[]=biomass|Biomass production from Alpine grasslands]] * [[:wiki:biophysical_structure_alpes|Biophysical Structure]] **AlpES Project Term** === C === * [[:wiki:capability_ecosystem_alpes|Capability of Ecosystem]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:capacity_building_model_alpes|Capacity Building Model]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:capacity_ecosystems_alpes|Capacity of Ecosystems]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:capital_alpes|Capital]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:carbon_sequestration_alpes|Carbon (CO2) Sequestration]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:carbonsequestration|Carbon Sequestration]] is the process of capturing atmospheric carbon and, most importantly, storing it for the long term. * [[:wiki:cices_classification|CICES Classification]] * [[:wiki:climate_change|Climate Change]] refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity. * [[:wiki:climate_change_alps|Climate Change in the Alps]] * [[:wiki:cultural_landscape|Cultural Landscape]] embraces a diversity of manifestations of the interaction between humankind and its natural environment. * [[:wiki:cultural_ecosystem_servic_alpes|Cultural Ecosystem Service]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:cultural_services|Cultural Services]] === D === * [[:wiki:demand_ecosystem_services_alpes|Demand for Ecosystem Services]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:demographic_change_migration|Demographic Change]] describes a population’s age structure adjusting to changes in living conditions and social shifts. * [[:wiki:disservices_alpes|Disservices]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:drinking_water_alpes|Drinking water]] **AlpES Project Term** === E === * [[:wiki:economic_valuation|Economic Valuation]] * [[:wiki:economic_valuation_ecosystem_services_alpes|Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:ecosystem_alpes|Ecosystem]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:ecosystem_and_ecosystem_services|Ecosystem]] is “a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities and the non-living environment interacting as a functional unit” (Millennium Assessment, 2005, v). * [[:wiki:ecosystem_assessment_alpes|Ecosystem Assessment]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:ecosystem_function_alpes|Ecosystem Function]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:ecosystem_mapping_alpes|Ecosystem Mapping]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:ecosystem_process_alpes|Ecosystem Process]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:ecosystem_services_alpes|Ecosystem Services (ES)]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:ecosystemservices|Ecosystem Services]] are the benefits that people obtain from ecosystems (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). * [[:wiki:ecosystem_service_classification_system_alpes|Ecosystem Service Classification System]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:ecosystem_service_mapping_alpes|Ecosystem Service Mapping]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:environmental_governance|Environmental Governance]] refers to “the means by which society determines and acts on goals and priorities related to the management of natural resources (IUCN). * [[:wiki:es_drivers|ES drivers]] * [[:wiki:eu_biodiversity_strategy_2020|EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020]] === F === * [[:wiki:surfacewaterfiltration|Filtration of Surface Water]] * [[:wiki:final_ecosystem_services_alpes|Final Ecosystem Services]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:flow_ecosystem_services_alpes|Flow of Ecosystem Services]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:formal_instruments_alpes|Formal Instruments]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:fragmentation|Fragmentation]] * [[:wiki:fuelwood|Fuelwood]] === G === * [[:wiki:gis|GIS]] * [[:wiki:goods_alpes|Goods]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:governance_alpes|Governance]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:governance|Governance]] refers to the steering and regulatory framework of a society. * [[:wiki:green_economy|Green Economy]] === H === * [[:wiki:human_capital_alpes|Human capital]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:human_well-being_alpes|Human well-being]] **AlpES Project Term** === I === * [[:wiki:indicators|Indicator]] is an observable value that is representative of a specific phenomenon of concern. * [[:wiki:informal_instruments_alpes|Informal instruments]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:intermediate_es_alpes|Intermediate ES]] **AlpES Project Term** === J === === K === === L === * [[:wiki:landscape_management|Landscape Management]] refers to the measures aiming at preserving landscape or controlling its transformations caused by anthropic activities or natural events. * [[:wiki:land_use_change|Land Use Change]] === M === * [[:wiki:maes_process|MAES Process]] * [[:wiki:manufactured_capital_alpes|Manufactured capital]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:mapping_alpes|Mapping]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:mapping_assessment|Mapping and Assessment]] * [[:wiki:mountain_and_mountain_area|Mountain Area]] can be defined using the UNEP–WCMC global delineation criteria. === N === * [[:wiki:natural_capital_alpes_alpes|Natural Capital]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:natural_capital|Natural Capital]] * [[:wiki:natural_heritage|Natural Heritage]] can be divided in natural features, geological and physiographical formations, and natural sites, which are of outstanding universal value from the [[:wiki:aesthetic_values|aesthetic]], conservationist or scientific point of view. * [[:wiki:natural_resource_management|Natural Resource Management]] is the sustainable management of a feature or component of the natural environment. * [[:wiki:non_native_trees| Non-native trees in the Alps (NNT)]] === O === * [[:wiki:outdoor_recreation_in_the_alps|Outdoor Recreation]] * [[:wiki:overexploitation|Overexploitation]] === P === * [[:wiki:payment_for_ecosystemservices|Payment for Ecosystem Services]] * [[:wiki:payment_for_ecosystemservices_pes_alpes|Payments for ecosystem services (PES)]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:participatory_approaches|Participatory Approaches]] * [[:wiki:participatory_planning_and_gis|Participatory Planning and GIS]] * [[:wiki:perception_of_ecosystem_services|Perception of Ecosystem Services]] * [[:wiki:political_ecology|Political Ecology]] studies human-environment interactions. It aims to examine how political, economic and social factors are linked to environmental problems,changes, and conflicts by exploring power structures. * [[:wiki:protected_area|Protected Area]] is a "clearly defined geographical space, recognised, dedicated and managed, through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values” (IUCN) * [[:wiki:protection_of_areas_against_avalanches_mudslides_and_rockfall|Protection against Avalanches, Mudslides, and Rockfall]] * [[:wiki:protection_forest|Protection Forest]] * [[:wiki:pollution|Pollution]] is the introduction of substances or energy into the environment, resulting in deleterious effects of such a nature as to endanger human health, harm living resources and ecosystems, and impair or interfere with amenities and other legitimate uses of the environment. === Q === === R === * [[:wiki:regional_environmental_governance_alpes|Regional environmental governance]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:regulating_es_alpes_alpes|Regulating ES]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:remote_sensing|Remote Sensing]] is the technique of acquiring information about an object without actually being in contact with it (Jorgensen & Fath, 2008). * [[:wiki:renewable_energies|Renewable Energies]] are defined as renewable non-fossil sources: wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogases. * [[:wiki:rural_development|Rural Development]] is a specific aspect of [[:wiki:territorial_development|territorial development]]. === S === * [[:wiki:service_benefitting_area_alpes|Service Benefitting Area (SBA)]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:service_connecting_area_alpes|Service Connecting Area (SCA)]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:service_providing_area_alpes|Service Providing Area (SPA)]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:spatial_data|Spatial Data]] * [[:wiki:stakeholders_alpes|Stakeholders]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:status_es_supply_alpes|Status of ES supply]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:stock_es_alpes|Stock of ES]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:supporting_es_alpes|Supporting ES]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:surfacewaterfiltration|Surface Water Filtration]] refers to the filtering of pollutants, excess nutrients, and organic matter. * [[:wiki:drinkingwater|Surface Water for Drinking]] is the availability, demand and actual consumption of clean (surface) water for domestic use. * [[:wiki:sustainable_development|Sustainable Development]] * [[:wiki:symbolic_species|Symbolic Alpine Plants]] * [[:wiki:synergies_es_alpes|Synergies of ES]] **AlpES Project Term** === T === * [[:wiki:technical_capital_alpes|Technical Capital]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:territorial_development|Territorial Development]] is understood as the process through which the geography of territories inhabited by human societies is progressively transformed. * [[:wiki:tier_approach_alpes|Tier approach]] **AlpES Project Term** * [[:wiki:tipping_points|Tipping Points]] * [[:wiki:trade-offs_es_alpes|Trade-offs of ES]] **AlpES Project Term** === U === * [[:wiki:urban_peri-urban_development|Urban/Peri-Urban Development]] refers to urbanization with its different dimensions and perceptions and to non-urban population increase and sprawl of urbanized land that takes place beyond the city's or agglomeration's physical limits. * [[:wiki:urban-rural_partnership|Urban-Rural Partnership]] relates to the cooperation between cities/towns and their surroundings. === V === === W === * [[:wiki:water_management|Water Management]] refers to preventive measures for the reduction of waste water, over-utilisation and pollution of water resource. * [[:wiki:web_2.0_tools|Web 2.0 tools]] are web-based applications that allow users to actively generate content and interact with other users. === X === === Y === === Z ===