echoes - Bibliography

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Ayala, A., Farinotti, D., Pellicciotti, F., Huss, M., & Zekollari, H. (2021). Hydrological changes in Switzerland: Impacts of climate change on water resources. In National Centre for Climate Services (Ed.), Hydro-CH2018: Hydro-climatic extremes and water resources in Switzerland. National Centre for Climate Services. https://www.nccs.admin.ch/hydro-ch2018

Bonaglia, A., Shen, C., Padrón, R. S., Bogner, K., Fopp, F., Rubin, A., Rubin, J.-F., Adde, A., Guisan, A., Albouy, C., & Pellissier, L. (2025). Sub-seasonal forecasting of thermal stress for Swiss river fishes during heatwaves. Ecological Modelling, 507, 111171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111171

Brunner, M. I., Björnsen Gurung, A., Zappa, M., Zekollari, H., Farinotti, D., & Stähli, M. (2019). Present and future water scarcity in Switzerland: Potential for alleviation through reservoirs and lakes. Science of the Total Environment, 666, 1033–1047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.169

Brunner, R. (2023, October 14). Nach Inferno bei Bitsch (VS): «Der Wald bei Bitsch ist tot, aber die Natur erneuert sich». SRF. https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/nach-inferno-bei-bitsch-vs-der-wald-bei-bitsch-ist-tot-aber-die-natur-erneuert-sich

Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft. (2024). Klimaeignungskarte für die Landwirtschaft in der Schweiz [Data set]. https://www.blw.admin.ch/de/klimaeignungskarte

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Bundesamt für Umwelt. (n.d.-d). Waldbrandgefahr. https://www.waldbrandgefahr.ch/

Bundesamt für Umwelt. (2020). Wird in der Schweiz das Wasser knapp? Warum der Klimawandel unseren Umgang mit dem blauen Gold verändert. Die Umwelt, 4/2020. https://www.bafu.admin.ch/dam/bafu/de/dokumente/wasser/magazin-umwelt/magazin-dieumwelt-4-20-wird-in-der-schweiz-das-wasser-knapp.pdf

Bundesamt für Umwelt. (2021). Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Schweizer Gewässer: Hydrologie, Gewässerökologie und Wasserwirtschaft (Umwelt-Wissen Nr. 2101). https://www.bafu.admin.ch/uw-2101-d

CH2018. (2018). CH2018 – Climate scenarios for Switzerland: Technical report. National Centre for Climate Services. https://www.nccs.admin.ch/nccs/en/home/climate-change-and-impacts/swiss-climate-change-scenarios.html

Chen, L., Brun, P., Buri, P., Fatichi, S., Gessler, A., McCarthy, M., Pellicciotti, F., Stocker, B., & Karger, D. N. (2025). Global increase in the occurrence and impact of megadroughts. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4245

CIPRA International. (n.d.). CIPRA – Leben in den Alpen. https://www.cipra.org/de

Climate CH2025. (2025). Climate CH2025 scientific report. National Centre for Climate Services. https://www.nccs.admin.ch/nccs/en/home/climate-change-and-impacts/schweizer-klimaszenarien-ch2025.html

Cook, B. I., Smerdon, J. E., Cook, E. R., et al. (2022). Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3, 741–757. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00329-1

Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine. (2012). Waterway profile of the Rhine. https://www.ccr-zkr.org/files/documents/infovoienavigable/Wasserstrassenprofil_en.pdf

Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine. (2023). “Act now!” on low water and effects on Rhine navigation: Reflection paper (Edition 3.0). https://www.ccr-zkr.org/files/documents/infovoienavigable/Act_now_3_0_en.pdf

Deltares. (2024). Rhine 4.2 degrees warmer at end of century due to climate change. https://www.deltares.nl/

European Commission, Joint Research Centre. (n.d.). European Drought Impact Database (EDID). Copernicus Emergency Management Service – European Drought Observatory. https://drought.emergency.copernicus.eu/tumbo/edid

Farinotti, D. (2022). Volume, evolution and sedimentation of future glacier lakes in Switzerland over the 21st century – Dataset [Data set]. ETH Zurich Research Collection. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000554650

Fischer, A. M., Strassmann, K. M., Croci-Maspoli, M., Hama, A. M., Knutti, R., Kotlarski, S., Schär, C., Schnadt Poberaj, C., Ban, N., Bavay, M., Beyerle, U., Bresch, D. N., Brönnimann, S., Burlando, P., Casanueva, A., Fatichi, S., Feigenwinter, E. M., Fischer, E. M., Hirschi, M., … Zubler, E. M. (2019). Climate scenarios for Switzerland CH2018: Approach and implications. Climate Services, 15, 100113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2019.100113

Frey, N.-L. (2023, July 27). Waldbrände – Nach dem Feuer: Höhere Biodiversität im offenen Wald. SRF. https://www.srf.ch/wissen/natur-tiere/waldbraende-nach-dem-feuer-hoehere-biodiversitaet-im-offenen-wald

Frings, R. M., Hillebrand, G., Gehres, N., Banhold, K., Schriever, S., & Hoffmann, T. (2019). From source to mouth: Basin-scale morphodynamics of the Rhine River. Earth-Science Reviews, 196, 102830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.002

Glacier Monitoring Switzerland. (n.d.). BEYOND ICE: Exploring the future of Swiss glaciers in 3D [Data set]. https://doi.glamos.ch/scenarios/

Glacier Monitoring Switzerland. (n.d.). Vadret da Morteratsch (E22-03): Glacier factsheet [Data set]. https://www.glamos.ch/factsheet#/E22-03

He, X., Pan, M., Wei, Z., Wood, E. F., & Sheffield, J. (2020). A global drought and flood catalogue from 1950 to 2016. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(5), E508–E535. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0269.1

Huss, M., & Hock, R. (2018). Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss. Nature Climate Change, 8, 135–140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-017-0049-x

International Atomic Energy Agency. (n.d.). Power Reactor Information System (PRIS): Reactor details – Unit 165. https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.aspx?current=165

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International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine. (2025). Simulation of the effects of climate change scenarios on future Rhine water temperature development – Update IPCC AR5 (Technical Report No. 302). https://www.iksr.org/fileadmin/user_upload/DKDM/Dokumente/Fachberichte/EN/rp_En_0302.pdf

Jorio, L. (2023, June 29). Kampf ums Wasser im Herzen Europas: Konfliktprävention tut Not. SWI swissinfo.ch. https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/politik/wasserknappheit-duerren_kampf-ums-wasser-im-herzen-europas-konfliktpraevention-tut-not/48624920

Jorio, L. (2025, April 7). The international consequences of a glacier-free Switzerland. SWI swissinfo.ch. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/glaciers-permafrost/the-international-consequences-of-a-glacier-free-switzerland/89113521

KORA. (2025). Wolf packs in Switzerland [Photograph]. https://www.kora.ch/data/Cache//a/a6/a6d/a6d6/_srca6d601cc9be71ae71d96f5055d7c47d5_pard516105cf4a10aa39479c2af95cc6e6c_dat1763548713.jpeg

Maat, J. ter. (2023, January 18). Climate change and Rhine discharge [Conference presentation]. Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine. https://www.ccr-zkr.org/files/documents/workshops/wrshp180123/05_JtMaat_en.pdf

Masterson, V., & North, M. (2025, February 21). Peatlands store twice as much carbon as forests – Here's what we can do to save them. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/02/peatlands-store-carbon-climate-change/

Mark Buzinkay. (2024). River barges, the Rhine and remote reefer monitoring [Article]. https://7270841.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/7270841/Papers/WP_Rhine_River_Transport.pdf

Naegeli, K., Huss, M., & Hoelzle, M. (2019). Change detection of bare-ice albedo in the Swiss Alps. The Cryosphere, 13(3), 1511–1527. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1511-2019

Price, B., Huber, N., Ginzler, C., Pazúr, R., & Rüetschi, M. (2021). The Habitat Map of Switzerland v1 [Data set]. EnviDat. https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.262

Rossi, L., Wens, M., De Moel, H., Cotti, D., Sabino Siemons, A.-S., Toreti, A., Maetens, W., Masante, D., Van Loon, A., Hagenlocher, M., Rudari, R., Meroni, M., Isabellon, M., Avanzi, F., Naumann, G., Barbosa, P., & European Commission, Joint Research Centre. (2023). European Drought Risk Atlas. Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2760/608737

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Semenzato, P., Cagnacci, F., Ossi, F., Eccel, E., Morellet, N., Hewison, A. J. M., Sturaro, E., & Ramanzin, M. (2021). Behavioural heat-stress compensation in a cold-adapted ungulate: Forage-mediated responses to warming Alpine summers. Ecology Letters, 24(8), 1556–1568. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13750

Shekhar, A., Buchmann, N., Humphrey, V., Gharun, M., & others. (2024). More than three-fold increase in compound soil and air dryness across Europe by the end of 21st century. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 262. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01474-3

Simičević, V. (2023, March 23). How climate change is reshaping the Alps. BBC Future. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230322-how-climate-change-is-melting-permafrost-in-the-alps

Slater, J. (2013, September 25). Vom verbrannten Berghang zur farbigen Artenvielfalt. SWI swissinfo.ch. https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/wissen-technik/vom-verbrannten-berghang-zur-farbigen-artenvielfalt/36914078

Stahl, K., Weiler, M., van Tiel, M., Kohn, I., Hänsler, A., Freudiger, D., Seibert, J., Gerlinger, K., & Moretti, G. (2022). Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Abflussanteile aus Regen, Schnee und Gletscherschmelze im Rhein und seinen Zuflüssen (KHR Bericht Nr. I-28). Internationale Kommission für die Hydrologie des Rheingebietes.

Statistics Netherlands. (2025, May 12). More goods transported over inland waterways in 2024. https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2025/20/more-goods-transported-over-inland-waterways-in-2024

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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. (2023, January 18). Exploring European inland water freight with maps: Visualising transport volumes on rivers and canals. UNECE Transport Division. https://w3.unece.org/Stories/2023/01/inland_waterway_freight/

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Van Matt, C. N., Muelchi, R., Gudmundsson, L., & Martius, O. (2024). Compound droughts under climate change in Switzerland. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24(6), 1975–2001. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1975-2024

Van Tricht, L., Zekollari, H., Huss, M., Rounce, D. R., Schuster, L., Aguayo, R., Schmitt, P., Maussion, F., Tober, B., & Farinotti, D. (2026). Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change, 16, 143–147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9

Weingartner, R., Viviroli, D., & Schädler, B. (2007). Water resources in mountain regions: A methodological approach to assess the water balance in a highland-lowland-system. Hydrological Processes, 21, 578–585. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6268

Wermelinger, B. (2024, April 5). Ecological significance of bark beetles. Waldwissen.net. https://www.waldwissen.net/en/forest-ecology/forest-fauna/insects-invertebrates/ecological-significance-of-bark-beetles

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. (n.d.). Permafrost and ground ice map. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. https://interactive-maps.wsl.ch/permafrost/

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Brivio, F., Apollonio, M., Anderwald, P., Filli, F., Bassano, B., Bertolucci, C., & Grignolio, S. (2024). Seeking temporal refugia to heat stress: Increasing nocturnal activity despite predation risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291, 20231587. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1587

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Huss, M., & Hock, R. (2018). Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss. Nature Climate Change, 8, 135–140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-017-0049-x

KORA. (2025). Wolf packs in Switzerland [Photograph]. https://www.kora.ch/data/Cache//a/a6/a6d/a6d6/_srca6d601cc9be71ae71d96f5055d7c47d5_pard516105cf4a10aa39479c2af95cc6e6c_dat1763548713.jpeg

Naturium am Inn. (n.d.). Der Untere Inn. https://www.naturium-am-inn.eu/unterer-inn/

Price, B., Huber, N., Ginzler, C., Pazúr, R., & Rüetschi, M. (2021). The Habitat Map of Switzerland v1 [Data set]. EnviDat. https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.262

Steffen, T., Huss, M., Estermann, R., Hodel, E., & Farinotti, D. (2022). Future glacier lakes: ETH supplementary data to paper Steffen et al. 2022 (Volume, evolution, and sedimentation of future glacier lakes in Switzerland over the 21st century) [Data set]. ETH Zurich Research Collection. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000554650

Università degli Studi di Padova. (2021, June 17). The Marmolada Mountains: Climate change drives the ibex to move. https://www.unipd.it/news/marmolada-mountains-climate-change-drives-ibex-move

RHONE

Alpiq. (2024, August 20). Does glacier melt threaten the power supply in Switzerland? https://www.alpiq.com/alpiq-group/media-relations/news-stories/news-stories-detail/does-glacier-melt-threaten-the-power-supply-in-switzerland

Alpiq AG. (2014a). Navizence: Centrale hydroélectrique de pompage-turbinage [Brochure]. Internet Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20141130011912/http://www.alpiq.com/de/images/D%C3%A9pliant_Navizence_WEB_tcm96-115367.pdf

Alpiq AG. (2014b). Speicherkraftwerk Navizence. Internet Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129031936/http://www.alpiq.com/de/unser-angebot/unsere-anlagen/wasserkraft/speicherkraftwerke/navizence.jsp

Glacier Monitoring Switzerland. (n.d.-a). BEYOND ICE: Exploring the future of Swiss glaciers in 3D [Data set]. https://doi.glamos.ch/scenarios/

Glacier Monitoring Switzerland. (n.d.-b). Glacier de Moiry (B64-02): Glacier factsheet [Data set]. https://www.glamos.ch/factsheet#/B64-02

Glacier Monitoring Switzerland. (n.d.-c). Rhonegletscher (B43-03): Glacier factsheet [Data set]. https://www.glamos.ch/factsheet#/B43-03

Hokkaido University Learning Satellite Project. (2024). Proglacial lake and Rhone river measurements: Swiss Glacier Field Trip 2024 report. Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University. https://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/IAI/swiss24/report/river2024.pdf

International Atomic Energy Agency. (n.d.). Power Reactor Information System (PRIS): Reactor details – Unit 165. https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.aspx?current=165

Mastrotheodoros, T., Pappas, C., Molnar, P., Burlando, P., Manoli, G., Parajka, J., Rigon, R., Szeles, B., Bottazzi, M., Hadjidoukas, P., & Fatichi, S. (2020). More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers. Nature Climate Change, 10(2), 155–161. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0676-5

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Ministère de la Transition énergétique. (2022, August 5). Arrêté du 5 août 2022 portant homologation de la décision n° 2022-DC-0739 de l’Autorité de sûreté nucléaire du 4 août 2022 fixant, de manière temporaire, de nouvelles limites de rejets thermiques applicables aux réacteurs de la centrale nucléaire du Bugey (INB n° 78 et n° 89), du Blayais (INB n° 86 et n° 110), de Saint-Alban-Saint-Maurice (INB n° 119 et n° 120), de Golfech (INB n° 135 et n° 142) et du Tricastin (INB n° 87 et n° 88). Journal officiel de la République française. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000046150840

Naegeli, K., Huss, M., & Hoelzle, M. (2019). Change detection of bare-ice albedo in the Swiss Alps. The Cryosphere, 13(3), 1511–1527. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1511-2019

van Tiel, M., Seibert, J., & Pellicciotti, F. (2024). Swiss glacier mass loss during the 2022 drought: Persistent streamflow contributions amid declining melt water volumes. The Cryosphere, 18, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-xxxx-2024

TICINO

Bundesamt für Umwelt. (2020). Regulierung des Lago Maggiore: Auswirkungen der Klimaveränderung auf die Wasserführung und die Nutzung des Wassers [Report]. Bundesamt für Umwelt.

Bundesamt für Umwelt. (2020). Seeregulierung Langensee (Lago Maggiore). https://www.bafu.admin.ch/de/wichtige-seeregulierungen

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Filipponi, F., Colazzo, G., Vassoney, E., Comoglio, C., & Filippa, G. (2025). Sentinel-2 reveals record-breaking Po River shrinking due to severe drought in 2022. Remote Sensing, 17(6), 1070. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17061070

Freudiger, D., Vis, M., & Seibert, J. (2020). Quantifying the contributions to discharge of snow and glacier melt. Hydro-CH2018 project. Federal Office for the Environment. https://www.bafu.admin.ch/dam/en/sd-web/7qnNvw3ouoIS/quantifying-the-contributions-to-discharge-of-snow-and-glacier-melt.pdf

Grandi, S., & Zanchi, M. (2025). Water grabbing in the Alpine macroregion and in the Global North: A taxonomic framework based on the case study of Ticino-Lombardy water management transboundary tensions. Journal of Alpine Research | Revue de géographie alpine, 113(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/15d2s

Jones, T. (2022, July 10). Quiet flows the Po: The life and slow death of Italy’s longest river. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/10/po-river-italy-drought-climate

Montanari, A., Brath, A., & Ceola, S. (2023). The 2022 drought in the Po River basin: A hydro-climatic perspective. Hydrology Research, 54(5), 623–637.

Salmaso, F., Quadroni, S., Gentili, G., & Crosa, G. (2017). Thermal regime of a highly regulated Italian river (Ticino River) and implications for aquatic communities. Journal of Limnology, 76(1), 23–33. https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1437

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. (2022, June 21). Niedriger Pegelstand – Die Po-Ebene dürstet nach Wasser und bittet die Schweiz um Hilfe. SRF News. https://www.srf.ch/news/international/niedriger-pegelstand-die-po-ebene-duerstet-nach-wasser-und-bittet-die-schweiz-um-hilfe

Spaggiari, O. (2024, February 29). Risotto crisis: The fight to save Italy’s beloved dish from extinction. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/risotto-crisis-the-fight-to-save-italys-beloved-dish-from-extinction-aoe

Straub, D. (2022, June 16). Italien: Extreme Dürre in der Po-Ebene – Gemeinden stellen nachts das Wasser ab. RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland. https://www.rnd.de/panorama/italien-extreme-duerre-in-der-po-ebene-gemeinden-stellen-nachts-das-wasser-ab-LQQAEJYT6FCQVCM2G23K563IAE.html

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