Focus on the Upper Kien Valley - development concept with the emphasis on mobility and leisure traffic
Brief description
Spiggengrund and the Upper Kien Valley lie at the south-eastern end of the Kien Valley proper and form part of the municipality of Reichenbach in the Kander Valley. The southernmost part is located on the margin of the UNESCO Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn World Heritage site. The Upper Kien Valley is used for mountain farming and tourism. A broad-based goal-finding process is designed to address the further development of the Upper Kien Valley with a focus on solving conflicts of use in the fields of mobility and leisure traffic.
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Hinteres Kiental
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Bruno Käufeler
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(c) Bruno Käufel
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(c) Bruno Käufel
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Aims
- A broad-based strategy is to lead to targeted development and positioning for the area with reference to the Swiss regulation for no-hunting zones and its commitments to sustainable development deriving from membership in the Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn World Heritage site.
- Measures will be planned and implemented in the fields of mobility and leisure traffic to mitigate conflicts of use.
- Existing strengths in terms of landscape and the natural environment will be utilised for tourism purposes with sparing use of the resources involved.
- The various measures will form a harmonised and mutually complementary package.
- Efficient and results-oriented use will be made of human and financial resources.
- The activities will be co-ordinated with higher-level objectives (no-hunting zone, local and regional authority levels, networks) and offer synergies.
Realization
o Participatory development of a strategy for the future of the Upper Kien Valley
- Creation of a core group to launch the project idea
- Involvement of various groups of actors and establishment of broad-based support
- Co-operative clarification of project goals and procedures
- In-depth situation analysis (focus on mobility / leisure traffic, tourism, mountain farming)
- Development of a strategy for the future and definition of thematic focuses with extended groups of actors and suitable participatory methods (conference for the future or similar)
- Definition of measures and responsibilities, and establishment of costs and financing for the main themes selected
o Mobility concept
- The field of mobility and leisure traffic will be targeted at the strategy development level already and will have priority at the implementation level.
- Development of a mobility concept with concrete proposals for implementation and financing
o Implementation and sustainability of operations
- Implementation and long-term sustainability of the agreed measures
Involved
In addition to those named as project organisers: the Kander Valley Planning Region, UNESCO Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn World Heritage site, Canton Bern's Office of Environmental Co-ordination, the UVEK Service Centre for Innovative and Sustainable Mobility, Alliance in the Alps local authority network, Wädenswil High School
Financing
Subsidy from DYNALP² (in euros): 20,000
Own funds, funds from financial backers (in euros): 46,000
Financial backing: Upper Kien Valley interest group € 7,000; Kien Valley-Reichenbach Tourist Office € 3,000; Reichenbach local authority € 7,000; UVEK € 12,000; Kander Valley Planning Region € 17,000
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