Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience
Journal of Political Ecology, 2019 Resiliency and adaptation are increasingly prevalent in climate change policy as well as scholarship, yet scholars have brought forward several critiques of these concepts along analytical as well as political lines.
Adam Dunstan
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Native American education between assimilation and self-determination - Schooling in tribal communities in the state of Arizona [PDF]
, 2007 The paper explores the situation of education of Native American students in Arizona, USA. This entails an attention to some historical and to current developments.
Lahne, Melanie
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Impacts of climate change in tourism in Europe. PESETA-Tourism study [PDF]
, 2009 This document contains the results of the physical impact assessment for tourism within the context of the PESETA project. Tourism is a multi-billion euro industry that is highly dependent on climate resources.
AMELUNG Bas, MORENO Alvaro
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Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson's "Beneath the Roses" [PDF]
, 2017 Gregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular ...
Charles Gleek
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The Adaptation Policy Paradox : the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation [PDF]
, 2013 The implementation of adaptation policies suffers from barriers and limits; even though adaptation is now set on the political agendas of developed and developing countries, surprisingly few examples of concrete policy realizations are found in ...
Dupuis, J., Knoepfel, P.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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An agent-based model to explore scenarios of adaptation to climate change in an alpine tourism destination [PDF]
, 2010 The European Alpine region is one of the most sensitive to climate change impacts. ClimAlpTour is a European research project of the Alpine Space Programme, dealing with the expected decrease in snow and ice cover.
Balbi, Stefano +2 more
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Thunderbird International Business Review, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 177-190, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines the dynamics of alpine resorts and their evolution in international marketing. International marketing is a complex process involving different actors across borders. The literature has often examined marketing at specific points in time.
Chihiro Nakayama
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Warming winters and New Hampshire’s lost ski areas: An integrated case study [PDF]
, 2003 New Hampshire’s mountains and winter climate support a ski industry that contributes substantially to the state economy. Through more than 70 years of history, this industry has adapted and changed with its host society.
Hamilton, Lawrence C. +3 more
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Impact of snow variability on the Swiss winter tourism sector: implications in an era of climate change [PDF]
, 2018 With its numerous mountain regions and its well developed winter tourism infrastructures, Switzerland is a country whose tourism sector is known to be sensitive to snowpack variability.
Gonseth, Camille
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