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Accurate Extraction of Cableways Based on the LS-PCA Combination Analysis Method

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
In order to maintain a ski resort efficiently, regular inspections of the cableways are essential. However, there are some difficulties in discovering and observing the cable car cableways in the ski resort.
Wenxin Wang   +2 more
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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

Pastel drawing of Brighton Ski Resort. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Pastel drawing of Brighton Ski Resort, Utah, photo taken in the ...

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Climate change and the future of Pamporovo ski resort Bulgaria. the view of the local population

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Geography, 2019
The paper is focused on climate change and the future of a major ski resort in Bulgaria as seen by the inhabitants of three adjacent settlements that have been traditionally related to the out-of-the- settlement resort complex.
Siya D. CHOLAKOVA   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Pamphlet prepared by the Brighton Ski Resort advertizing 1992 ski school lessons [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Image of a pamphlet prepared by the Brighton Ski Resort advertizing 1992 ski school lessons, Brighton ...

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Modelling Patterns of Past Inundation Processes Combining Geoarchaeology and Morphometric Hydrological Analysis in the Shashe‐Limpopo Basin, South Africa

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Riverine and valley systems across the globe have been central to the development of past urban centres. By AD 900, the Shashe and Limpopo Rivers seem to have facilitated the interaction and integration of early farming communities in southern Africa. This paper focuses on the application of geoarchaeological perspectives made available by the
B. S. Nxumalo
wiley   +1 more source

The Moral (Un)Desirability of New Biomedical Technologies as Potential Techno‐Fixes

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The techno‐fix argument, used to argue against technological interventions that address the consequences of social problems instead of their underlying causes, is increasingly invoked in biomedical discussions. However, especially in biomedicine, the techno‐fix argument remains conceptually underdeveloped.
Lieke van Kempen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Logiques touristiques en station de haute-montagne : quelles évolutions possibles vers la durabilité ?

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2009
This text starts from the teachings stemming from an evaluation of the tourist practices in the light of sustainable tourism principles, realized in 2004 within the framework of a national network piloted by the French Agency of Touristic Engineering ...
Laurent Arcuset
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting habitat suitability of selected Meloidae species and future potential refugia: A case study from inner Western Anatolia

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Consensus habitat‐suitability maps identify current hotspots of species richness across the Inner Western Anatolian mountain systems. Late‐century projections (2081–2100) under SSP2‐4.5 and SSP5‐8.5 show range shifts and changing richness patterns, intensifying at higher elevations.
Muhammed Arif Demir, Mahmut Kabalak
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship among Travel Motivation, Satisfaction and Revisit Intention of Skiers: A Case Study on the Tourists of Urumqi Silk Road Ski Resort

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2020
With the approach of the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, the ski tourism market in mainland China is gradually heating up. As an important node city of the Silk Road Economic Belt, Urumqi is vigorously developing winter tourism to enhance its image as ...
Xiaoshan He, Jian Ming Luo
doaj   +1 more source

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