Welcome
Josef Geisler, Deputy Governor (Tyrol)
Gerhard Mannsberger, Director General Forestry (AT)
Rolf Manser, Head of Forest Division (CH)
Stakeholder Dialogue – World Café
– Climate and natural disasters
– Alps and protection forests
– Urbanisation in Alpine areas – exposed population groups in rural areas
– Fun park Alps – conflicting priorities of tourism and nature conservation
Alpine areas in transition
Michael Mitter, Chairman Protection Forest Association (AT)
Florian Rudolf-Miklau, Chairman EUSALP AG8 (AT)
Keynote speech
Markus Reiterer, Secretary-General of the Alpine Convention
Panel discussion
Andrä Rupprechter, Federal Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (AT)
Dominique Gantenbein, Minister of Home Affairs, Education and Environment (LIE)
Josef Geisler, Deputy Governor (Tyrol)
Richard Theiner, Deputy Governor (South Tyrol)
Ulrike Scharf, State Minister of the Environment and Consumer Protection (Bavaria)
Summary
Gebhard Walter, Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control (AT)