Chamonix management

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Keen to promote responsible tourism as a means

of balancing the demands of tourism with the need to protect the environment

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Local authority provides environmentally

friendly transport service with clean energy buses and free public transport

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Espace Mont-Blanc involves cooperation between

France Italy and Switzerland on issues of international transport, nature

conservation, forests and water resources

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Tomorrow’s valley brings together

representatives from local community and tourist groups to plan for sustainable

management:

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burying service networks such as underground

electricity lines

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renovating and preserving historic building and

monuments

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preserving natural wetlands and peat bogs

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minimising impact of skiing on the landscape by

planting trees and using local building materials that lend in with the natural

environment

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maintaining and way-marking footpaths and

cleaning rivers (seasonal employment for the locals)

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supporting local traditional employment sectors,

particularly farming

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