L'évolution récente de la population dans les pays de l'Arc alpin (sans l'Italie)

Switzerland has 3/5 of its territory in the mountainous region of the Alps. But only 1/4 of the population lives in this area. The demographic growth of the helvetian Alps is founded on the development of the urbanization and of the lower countries. In this way, it tends to resemble the one of other alpine regions. If the mountainous outskirts have a natural predisposition to concentrate the population, also in the mountains the higher countries decrease in favour of the valleys. There is a marked decline at the middle heights. The mountain area is not very urbanized. In a big diversity of human implantations, all kinds of evolutions cand be observed. The most of the countries with an homogeneous growth parallel to areas where the tourism has developed considerably. The measures taken for territory's adjustment have not changed the former tendencies

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