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• Accessibility

• Biodiversity

• Carbon Sequestration

• CICES Classification

• Climate Change refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.

• Climate Change in the Alps

• Cultural Landscape embraces a diversity of manifestations of the interaction between humankind and its natural environment

• Demographic Change describes a population’s age structure adjusting to changes in living conditions and social shifts.

• 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).

• Ecosystem Services are the benefits that people obtain from ecosystems (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment 2005).

• Environmental Governance refers to “the means by which society determines and acts on goals and priorities related to the management of natural resources (IUCN).

• ES drivers

• EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020

• Fragmentation

• GIS

• Governance refers to the steering and regulatory framework of a society.

• Green Economy

• Indicator is an observable value that is representative of a specific phenomenon of concern.

• Landscape Management refers to the measures aiming at preserving landscape or controlling its transformations caused by anthropic activities or natural events.

• Land Use Change

• MAES Process

• Mapping and Assessment

• Mountain Area can be defined using the UNEP–WCMC global delineation criteria.

• Natural Capital

• Natural Heritage can be divided in natural features, geological and physiographical formations, and natural sites, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic, conservationist or scientific point of view.

• Natural Resource Management is the sustainable management of a feature or component of the natural environment.

• Overexploitation

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• Remote Sensing is the technique of acquiring information about an object without actually being in contact with it (Jorgensen & Fath, 2008).

• Renewable Energies are defined as renewable non-fossil sources: wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogases.

• Rural Development is a specific aspect of territorial development.

• Surface Water Filtration refers to the filtering of pollutants, excess nutrients, and organic matter.

• Surface Water for Drinking is the availability, demand and actual consumption of clean (surface) water for domestic use.

• Sustainable Development

• Territorial Development is understood as the process through which the geography of territories inhabited by human societies is progressively transformed.

• Tipping Points

• 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.

• Urban-Rural Partnership relates to the cooperation between cities/towns and their surroundings.

• Water Management refers to preventive measures for the reduction of waste water, over-utilisation and pollution of water resource.

• Web 2.0 tools are web-based applications that allow users to actively generate content and interact with other users.