... warming Switzerland Growing freshwater stress around the world is raising significant awareness for the need to better manage systems now, as well as in a future dominated by climatic change. Since the climate cycle is essentially the hydrological cycle (Gleick, 2009), climate change will alter...

... by regional and local authorities. The 3,600 year flood history derived from fan delta proxies, presented in this paper, is unique in the European Alps. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Switzerland Mountains Climatology Floods Risk assessment At present, the significance of flood...