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Eleanor Coade and Horace Walpole's Gothic Gateway: A Study in Eighteenth‐Century Business Practice

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 149-176, June 2025.
Abstract Artificial stone manufacturer Eleanor Coade (1733–1821) was the outstanding female entrepreneur of the eighteenth century, running her own successful business for some fifty years. Her name became a nationally recognized brand, and her firm's architectural and sculptural stoneware products are still ubiquitous.
Caroline Stanford
wiley   +1 more source

A circulação de práticas e ideias balneárias: a estância termal de Poços de Caldas (MG)

Confins, 2019
One can say that the coastal and thermal spa models are concurrent at birth, although strongly connected by the coincident frequency of the elites who founded and frequented them.
Lohanne Fernanda Gonçalves Ferreira, Rogério Silva-Júnior   +1 more
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Weather Variability and the Tourism Industry: A Panel Data Analysis [PDF]

, 2017
Increasing weather variability around the world has led to many researchers examining the impacts of weather variability on vulnerable industries. For example, the tourism industry can make up a large portion of an economy’s growth, with some of the most
Coppola, Carmela
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Cyprus' image—a sun and sea destination—as a detrimental factor to seasonal fluctuations. Exploration into motivational factors for holidaying in Cyprus [PDF]

, 2013
Cyprus is established as a summer destination. To aid the destination in developing its winter season as well, this research uses a qualitative inductive approach to explore the tourists’ current image of the island and their motivations of visiting it ...
Adamou A., Andriotis K., Apostolopoulos Y., Ashworth G. H., Ayres R., Bartolome A., Bramwell B., Bryman A., Bryman A., Christina Koutra, Clerides S., Collis J., Douglas N., Goulding C., Holloway J. C., Ioannides D., Ioannides D., Sastre F., Saunders M., Savvina Karyopouli, Selanniemi T., Sharpley R., Spilanis I.   +22 more
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Advancing Soil Compaction Assessment: A Comprehensive Study in Ireland

European Journal of Soil Science, Volume 76, Issue 3, May–June 2025.
ABSTRACT Soil degradation is a substantial threat to agricultural productivity and ecosystem service provision across Europe. However, the nature of soil degradation varies across spatial scales, with considerable regional disparities observed amongst individual member states. In Ireland, soil compaction represents a significant soil threat, imposed by
Vajihe Shahrokh, Giulia Bondi, Alan Fahy, Lilian O'Sullivan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deauville : création et développement urbain

In Situ, 2012
During the nineteenth century, the success of Trouville, with its reputation founded on the novel practices of therapeutic sea bathing, gave rise to the development of seaside resorts all along France’s Channel coast.
Didier Hébert
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L’évolution du système touristique en Tunisie. Perspectives de gouvernance en contexte de crise

Études Caribéennes, 2020
The seaside tourism of Tunisia, which started with a few limited area parallel to the shoreline, has evolved through several ‘concepts’ of tourist development.
Mohamed Hellal
doaj   +1 more source

Energy expenditure on recreational visits to different natural environments. [PDF]

, 2015
Physical inactivity poses a significant challenge to physical and mental health. Environmental approaches to tackle physical inactivity have identified natural environments as potentially important public health resources.
Adrian H. Taylor, Ainsworth, Ainsworth, Ashbullby, Badland, Bedimo-Rung, Cohen, Coley, Coombes, Cutt, Dolan, Downward, Dunton, Ekkekakis, Evenson, Gibson, Giles-Corti, Hartig, Heft, Hillsdon, Hug, Hunter, Kweon, Lachowycz, Lee, Lejeune, Lewis R. Elliott, Maas, Maas, Mathew P. White, McKercher, Merritt, Mitchell, Mitchell, Natural England, Panter, Rind, Scarborough, Solomon, Stephen Herbert, The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Trost, Völker, Ward Thompson, Wheeler, Wheeler, White, White, White, World Health Organization, Wyles, Yang, Yu   +52 more
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Ecologies of Collective Imagination

International Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 494-508, May 2025.
Abstract Ecologies of collective imagination involve creating and sharing imagination practice. This modest piece of research engaged 10 artists, environmentalists, and educators to think together about how nature can be a source and a driver of the imagination and sense of possibility for individuals and communities. Together we focused on the concept
Vlad Glăveanu, Penny Hay, Hannah McDowall, Tom Doust, Shannon Welles, Goldie Chaudhuri, Anne Pender, Mairéad Hurley   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le tourisme balnéaire face à l’occupation anarchique du littoral : étude de cas des stations balnéaires de Cap Skirring et de Kafountine (Basse Casamance, Sénégal)

Études Caribéennes
The economic stakes on the coasts are large and difficult to reconcile. Seaside tourism coexists with many other activities on the coast and each of them benefits.
Sadou Bocoum
doaj   +1 more source