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Climate Change and (Mal)Adaptation in Tourism‐Intensive Alpine Regions

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Tourism, especially in winter, accounts for a large share of economic income in Alpine regions. At the same time, these regions are more severely affected by climate change, leading to shorter winter seasons and reduced snow cover. This presents a pressing issue for areas reliant on income from winter tourism through activities such as skiing.
Valentina Ausserladscheider
wiley   +1 more source

Olympics: Improving the Competition Strategy in Each Skill Technique of Elite Swimmers for the 400 meters Freestyle

open access: yesPhysical Education Theory and Methodology
Background. In swimming championships, strategy setting is considered to be the main factor, especially in the middle and long-distance events. Implementing a strategic change can indirectly affect the final results. Objectives.
Waristra Tyo Nirwansyah   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

OBInvest: Brazilian Investment Olympiad — links between investments, finance and Mathematics for High School students

open access: yesEducação Matemática Debate
The design and implementation results of OBInvest are presented, aiming to contribute to a Financial Education that stimulates a responsible culture regarding investments and financial protection. Its methodology is centered on research, critical reading
Ivail Muniz Junior   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about
Ching Ju Mae, Rosie
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Procurement and supplier diversity in the 2012 Olympics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
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Athayde, Rosemary   +3 more
core  

FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

Medals and likes: A methodology for big data image dataset analysis of Olympic athletic beauty on Instagram

open access: yesStudies in Communication Sciences
This article seeks to understand how the Cultural Analytics’ methodological approach and computational tools help interpret large image datasets. A set of 87 730 images of 389 Olympic athletes was collected from Instagram and analyzed, featuring a ...
Carlos Roberto Gaspar Teixeira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The most gender-equal Olympics? A corpus-assisted keywords analysis of Italian press coverage of male and female athletes in Paris 2024

open access: yesRevista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were the most gender-equal in athlete participation. This article analyzes Italian media coverage to assess the representation of male and female athletes, focusing on narrative equality and gender biases.
Simona Frabotta, Javier Fernández-Cruz
doaj   +1 more source

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