Coping with Demographic Change in the Alpine Regions

Processes and Issues of Demographic Change in the Alps.- Addressing Specific Impacts of Demographic Change - Experiences form DEMOCHANGE Pilot Actions.- Implications and Recommendations for Spatial Planning and Regional Development.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Bausch is Professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Tourism, working in fields of destination management and regional development. A focus of his work is the Alpine Space area and related European programmes of transnational territorial cooperation. As national expert he contributed to several strategy papers on regional development and cohesion policy in the Alps.

Madeleine Koch, born 1978 in Wittenberg is a Research and Teaching Assistant in Social Geography at Salzburg University. She studied Geography in Jena and Salzburg, received her MSc in Geography in 2009 and is currently working on her PhD-Thesis on collaborative housing projects in Austria. In the DEMOCHANGE project she was responsible for the development and implementation of projects in the southern part of the Austrian federal state of Salzburg.

Alexander Veser is a geographer with the Institute for Emergency Medicine and Medicine Management at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. During his time as research assistant for the DEMOCHANGE project at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, he has analysed ageing and migration processes and their effects on regional economy, infrastructure and society. Together with regional partners and stakeholders, he has facilitated the conceptualisation and implementation of pilot actions in Southern Bavarian model regions. In his current work, he analyses the effects of demographic change on the demand for emergency services.