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	Alpine countries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alpine countries, sometimes called Alpine nations or Alpine states, are a group of nations taken to be part of either Central Europe along with the Visegrád group or Western Europe.
		Though France and Italy also have mountains of the Alps within their borders, neither is always considered to be an Alpine country, with the former sometimes being considered to be only a part of Western Europe and the latter sometimes being considered to be only part of the Apennine peninsula in Southern Europe.
		It is a landlocked country, bordered by other Alpine countries, with Austria to the east and Switzerland to the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alpine_countries (622 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alpine Aromatics moved to the Edison Industrial Center where it became a strong influence in the fragrance industry.
		Alpine Aromatics continued to grow, supplying fragrances for cleaning materials such as soaps, detergents and industrial cleaners, as well as for personal care products including creams, lotions, shampoos, and fine perfumes and colognes.
		All of this, as well as Alpine's credo of providing quality fragrances and conscientious customer service, have made the company what it is today and what it hopes to continue to be in the future.
	www.alpinearomatics.com /history.htm (761 words)

	Alpine countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Alpine countries, also known as the Alpine states, are taken to be part of either Central Europe along with the Visegrád group, and sometimes Western Europe.
		The eastern part of the country is located at higher altitude, the highest point being the Grauspitz, at 2,599 m (8,527 ft.).It is a land-locked country, bordered by fellow Alpine countries Austria to the East, and Switzerland to the west.
		These countries are Alpine because the Alps mountain range passes through all of them.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/alpine_countries (670 words)

	Central Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The notion of Alpine Countries extending to the Baltic Sea and the North Sea is not uncontroversial.
		Several other countries have regions that retain a Central European character as well, having historically been part of the central European kingdoms and empires such as the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Habsburg monarchy, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Imperial Germany.
		Following the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold War, this distinction has again come into use, often to cover those countries that had been Warsaw Pact members but are now members of NATO and the European Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Europe (788 words)

	Alpine countries: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Switzerland (A landlocked federal republic in central Europe) — the Swiss landscape is characterized by the Alps running across the central-south of the country.
		The eastern part of the country is located at higher altitude (Elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface), the highest point being the Grauspitz, at 2,599 meters.
		Vienna (The capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria; was the home of Beethoven and Brahms and Haydn and Mozart and Schubert and Strauss) is the capital and the largest city.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Al/Alpine_countries.htm (445 words)

	PBS Cyber School: Use Scientific Method and Win Olympic Medals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some countries, for example, have many mountains, but they are not good for skiing.
		Countries receive one point for every skiing mountain found within its borders and five points for every ski resort.
		The next section, Organize Data from Countries, suggests a method for organizing data.
	www.pbs.org /ocs/ski/challenge05/05_05.html (517 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alpine Countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		FACTOID # 16: Only two countries in the world are doubly landlocked: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
		The city centre of Vaduz Vaduz Castle, one of the towns primary landmarks Vaduz (vÃ¤dOOts) is the capital of the principality of Liechtenstein.
		A number of other European countries are negotiating for membership, and several more are expected to begin negotiations in the future.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alpine-Countries (2130 words)

	The Federal Environment Ministry
		The Alpine Convention was signed by the Alpine countries Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein and Switzerland as well as by the European Union on the occasion of the 2nd Alpine Conference on 7 November 1991 in Salzburg, Austria.
		The Alpine Convention is a framework convention to guarantee the protection of the Alpine region and its long-term and sustainable development.
		Concerning "Population and culture", the 8th Alpine Conference agreed on 16 November 2004 that this topic, at least for the time being, will be addressed by means of a political declaration which is, however, to be subject to the mechanism of the compliance regime.
	www.bmu.de /english/international_environmental_policy/alpine_convention/doc/35627.php (675 words)

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		These issues are not only of central importance to the Alpine countries themselves, but they are of significance for fresh-water management in much of central Europe via any putative changes in the Alpine streamflows associated with the Rhone, the Rhine and the Danube.
		Atmospheric research in the Alpine countries has always focused on the effects of the orography on the ambient weather and climate.
		This period encompasses an entire annual cycle in which the seasonal variability of Alpine weather systems can be investigated and includes an extra month at the beginning of the period to solve operational problems and assure that all routine data collection systems are fully operational.
	www.wmo.ch /web/arep/map.doc (1890 words)

	Alpine countries - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Switzerland — the Swiss landscape is characterized by the Alps running across the central-south of the country.
		Austria — Austria's west and south are situated in the Alps, making it a well-known winter sport destination.
		Alpine countries, Alpine countries, Regions of Europe and Alpine countries.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Alpine_country (636 words)

	SHORT HISTORY OF SKIING
		Alpine skiing is the mainstay of winter recreation in the northern tier of American states and in the entire Appalachian chain down to the Carolinas, in the Canadian Laurentians, in the northwest’s Cascades, in the western Rockies and the far western Sierra Nevada.
		Pioneer alpine skiers in the 1920s were drawing on a trial-and-error process of millenniums, at least five thousand years, of winnowing out mistakes such as short broad skis and a single long pole while preserving advances such as long, narrow skis and two shorter poles.
		The "AK" attracted the largest entry of alpine racers on the Continent and the AK winner was thereafter clearly seen as the alpine racer of the year and the luster of the event by far outshone the St. Moritz Olympics of the same year.
	skiinghistory.org /history.html (8651 words)

	SCALP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The project Status and Conservation of the Alpine Lynx Population (SCALP) is an ongoing programme aimed to co-ordinate the lynx monitoring and the conservation activities in the Alps.
		Nowadays, the lynx and its habitat are protected by international treaties and by national laws in all Alpine countries.
		The SCALP (Status and Conservation of the Alpine Lynx Population) was established in the early 1990s in the recognition that no Alpine country alone can host a viable lynx population and that international co-operation is essential for the conservation of this species.
	www.kora.unibe.ch /en/proj/scalp (756 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Higher and higher: ski resorts in fight to survive global warming
		Powerful Alpine lobbies, environmentalists, and government circles in the provincial capital of Innsbruck, 90 minutes away, anxious to court the substantial green vote, are mobilising against what they term the greed of the developers and the never-ending "spiral of growth" in winter tourism.
		The conflict over the fate of the Piz Val Gronda is symptomatic of a bigger battle being waged across the Alps at the local level, among and between the seven Alpine countries - Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Liechtenstein - and at EU headquarters in Brussels.
		The Alpine ski industry is trying to counter the threat of global warming by building ever higher in the peaks and on the glaciers in order to secure snow guarantees and extend the skiing season.
	www.guardian.co.uk /climatechange/story/0,12374,1445899,00.html (1271 words)

	Informazioni per i media 10.11.2004 der Initiative des Alpes
		But Alpine countries are having difficulties to achieve this aim: In Austria the Ecopoints system has failed.
		The permits are auctioned periodically over the Alpine Crossing Exchange or distributed to the users of railway as bonuses free of charge (1 permit on a the road per unit of rail transportation).
		In addition, the various accidents on Alpine road tunnels involving heavy vehicles, which have caused certain important axes to be closed for several months, have encouraged a shift in thinking and a sense of solidarity among the countries concerned.
	www.alpeninitiative.ch /e/Sonstiges-i-Inhalt.asp?ID=13&fromAktuell=true (1367 words)

	The Lynx in the Italian Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This pattern suggests that the extinct, autochthonous Alpine population of Lynx lynx was one of the smallest in size in Europe.
		Such genetic characterization, besides the morphometric differentiation, permits the retention of the hypothesis that the Alpine lynx was not a mere, undifferentiated population of the Eurasian lynx.
		Ognev, S.L. Mammals of USSR and adjacent countries.
	lynx.uio.no /lynx/nancy/news/cn19_01.htm (2289 words)

	Western Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thus the concept of Western Europe is associated with liberal democracy; and its countries have been considered to share many cultural, economic and political traditions with the United States of America and Canada — which have received millions of Western European settlers since the discovery of the New World.
		These countries represented the democratic victors of both world wars; and their ideological approach was spread further east as a consequence, in a process not unlike the ideological effect of the Napoleonic Wars, when new ideas spread from revolutionary France.
		Similarly, the Alpine countries may be considered part of Central Europe, and Italy, the Iberian countries, Monaco, Greece and southern France part of Southern Europe as well.
	www.infoslurp.com /information/Western_Europe (888 words)

	ICAS - Interakademische Kommission Alpenforschung: Internationales wissenschaftliches Kommitee Alpenforschung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Due to the support of the Swiss Presidency of the Alpine Convention (1999-2000), ISCAR was accepted by the Alpine Conference 2000 in Lucerne as official observer of the Alpine Convention in order to represent the scientific community.
		Since the 2000 Alpine Conference, ISCAR was present at all 7 meetings of the Permanent Committee as well as at the biannual Alpine Conferences 2000 in Lucerne/Switzerland and 2002 in Meran/Italy (Roland Psenner, Flavio Ruffini, Thomas Scheurer).
		Institutions: Members of ISCAR and its office were regularly in contact with alpine or mountain organisations and institutions as Mountain Research Initiative, CIPRA, WWF, Rete Montagna or the Alpine Network of Protected Areas.
	www.alpinestudies.ch /iscar/iscar_report99-02.html (954 words)

	The Noriker - Norik - The Pinzgau Horse
		The Norik horses of the older type were considered as the most typical representatives of the western group of domesticated horses, not only because of their chronological characteristics were the closest to the diluvium varieties of equus robustus Steg., but also because the Noriker has the least of the Oriental blood.
		The preservation of the old breed and the domesticated horse of the alpine western type was in the hands of the Salzburg archdiocese, which maintained its own stud farm in Riess and according to their style was trying to improve the Noriker with the Italian-Spanish stallions bred in Riess.
		This was achieved in relatively short time period by improving the upbringing conditions of young foals as well as by selecting early maturing individuals of a coldblooded horse of the same race and obviously by abandoning the purity of the breed.
	horsecare.stablemade.com /articles2/noriker.htm (1392 words)

	Notes on the Alpine Convention by Suzanne Warsinsky
		The Alpine Convention is a prime example of transboundary collaboration as discussed thus far during the conference.
		The Alpine Convention is intended as an international effort to protect the multi-national domain that is the Alps in its entirety and not simply within national boundaries.
		Transborder cooperation of the Alpine region shall be intensified and extended both in terms of the territory and the number of subjects covered.
	www.mtnforum.org /resources/library/warss97a.htm (1695 words)

	WORKING PARTY ON THE MANAGEMENT OF MOUNTAIN WATERSHEDS Twenty-second session
		These included the avalanches that affected Alpine countries during the winter of 1998/1999, storm damage to large areas of forests in late 1999 and flooding events that have taken place in recent months.
		Different approaches to classification of forests in Alpine countries were described, as well as zoning principles and financial, legislative and policy tools.
		Countries were also encouraged to develop ideas for exchange that could be pursued on an individual basis and within current financial limits.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/MEETING/005/AC471E/AC471e01.htm (4476 words)

	ALP-NET Workshop 2 Programme \| ICCR
		Nonetheless, data on trans-Alpine freight and passenger transport and its impact on the environment is still incomplete and inconsistent across countries and different data sources.
		Such an observatory will only be created through close co-operation of all Alpine countries and the European Commission.
		The observatory should tie in with the requirements of the Alpine Convention, the requirements of the land transport agreement between Switzerland and the EU, the efforts for establishing a European Transport Information System (ETIS) and the numerous national and international surveys on trans-Alpine transport, most notably the French-Swiss-Austrian CAFT survey.
	www.iccr-international.org /alp-net/workshop2-programme.html (505 words)

	Read about Alpine countries at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Alpine countries and learn about Alpine countries ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Alpine countries, sometimes called Alpine nations or Alpine states, are a group of
		Swiss Alps, the highest of which is the Dufour Peak at 4,634 meters, are found countless valleys, some with
		It is a landlocked country, bordered by other Alpine countries, with
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Alpine_country (519 words)

	VIA ALPINA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Signing of the Alpine Convention at State level, the aim of the treaty being to ensure sustainable development throughout the Alps.
		The ISC meets twice a year, in each of the eight Alpine countries in turn.
		Official recognition of Via Alpina’s contribution to implementing the Alpine Convention by the Environment ministers of the eight Alpine countries.
	www.via-alpina.com /site/page_main.asp?ContentID=19&VersionID=2 (252 words)

	Nordic Culture > 2003/2004 FIS World Cup Results - Scandinavica.com
		The Nordic countries have won a total of ten podium places in the International Ski Federation (FIS) championships of this season 2003/2004 out of which Norway has taken five medals back home and confirmed their position as the dominant Nordic country in winter competitions.
		Skiing is the Nordic countries' national sport, and most particularly the disciplines of Nordic skiing and ski jumping, where Norway and Finland often dominate the competitions.
		Alpine skiing is also a very popular sport, although not as much as in the Alpine countries (Austria, Germany, Slovenia..) because alpine skiing is geographically limited by the low altitude hills or flat lands of most of Sweden and Finland.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/sports/fis-ski.htm (519 words)

	"Alpine Forum 2000" - Mountain Forum Calendar
		This biennial meeting of the scientific body of the Alpine Convention (the scientific agreement among the Alpine countries), represents one of the most significant expressions of mountain scientific and socio-economic research.
		The Alpine Forum is a biannual meeting of Europe's top scientific research experts pertaining to various mountain studies disciplines.
		Their objective is to encourage an interdisciplinary exchange of information between researchers from Alpine countries and representatives for the Administrative and Political sectors.
	www.mtnforum.org /calendar/events/0009afaa.htm (542 words)

	European Countries visited on Beach's Alpine Motorcycle Tours
		This is the country of haute couture, haute cuisine and haute monde.
		The Dolomite mountains are in sharp contrast to other parts of the Alpine range, as the stark, unforested peaks rear into the sky and stand as barriers between tiny communes and charming, busy cities.
		This barrier is punctured by the Vrsic Saddle at 5,285 feet, the watershed between the Black Sea and the Adriatic.
	www.beachs-mca.com /european_countries.html (1347 words)

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