Chilla T, Lambracht M (2025)
Publication Type: Other publication type, text-Technical Report
Publication year: 2025
Original Authors: Tobias Chilla, Markus Lambracht
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32859.84007
The region of the ‘Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpenländer’ (Arge Alp) is considered to be socioeconomically strong: it includes many of the larger cities in the Alpine region, several particularly successful sub-regions and also areas that are very prominent in terms of tourism. At the same time, Arge Alp includes large parts of the alpine high mountains, which are often perceived as socioeconomically disadvantaged. This paper addresses the question of how socioeconomic success and topgraphy are related. Is the region successful despite the relief, because of the relief, or are these two aspects independent? This question is not only relevant for the Arge Alp area. In the entire Alpine region and in other mountain areas, the question arises as to the relationship between relief and regional development. This question is operationalized based on secondary statistical demographic indicators, comparing areas belonging to the Alpine region as defined by the Alpine Convention and areas beyond this space. The results show that the Arge Alp has established as a particularly strong subspace of the entire Alpine region. The question of relief dependency is not easy to answer. It involves arguments of amenity migration, economic geographic path dependency, and the integration of metropolitan and peri-Alpine spaces.
APA:
Chilla, T., & Lambracht, M. (2025). Arge Alp: a strong region despite or because of the mountains?
MLA:
Chilla, Tobias, and Markus Lambracht. Arge Alp: a strong region despite or because of the mountains? 2025.
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