All downhill from here? Climate change and house prices in the Swiss Alps
Climate Risk ManagementThis paper investigates the relationship between climate (change) and house price development in the Swiss Alps, testing the hypothesis that house-buyers in ski resorts switch from lower-lying, less snow-secure resorts to high-altitude areas with ...
Floris Jan Blok, Franz Fuerst
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Do changes in snow conditions have an impact on snowmaking investments in French Alps ski resorts? [PDF]
Int J Biometeorol, 2021 Berard-Chenu L +4 more
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Schematic visualisation of ski resort trails
Journal of Maps, 2009 Abstract Please click here to download the map associated with this article. Trail maps for winter sports often take the form of highly illustrative landscape paintings, or panorama, overprinted with trails and lifts to allow skiers and snowboarders a mechanism for on-mountain navigation. The character of mountain environments lends itself particularly
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Managing risk in ski resorts: Environmental factors affecting actual and estimated speed on signposted groomed slopes in a cohort of adult recreational alpine skiers. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Carus L, Castillo I.
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Bird mortality related to collisions with ski–lift cables: do we estimate just the tip of the iceberg? [PDF]
, 2012 Collisions with ski–lift cables are an important cause of death for grouse species living close to alpine ski resorts. As several biases may reduce the detection probability of bird carcasses, the mortality rates related to these collisions are generally
Allienne, J. F. +5 more
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International tourism in Małopolskie Województwo: the present situation and prospects for development [PDF]
, 2009 Małopolskie Województwo is one of the most popular tourist regions in Poland. Due to many attractions, long traditions of hosting tourists and well-developed accommodation facilities, Małopolskie Województwo has become the destination for a growing ...
Kurek, Włodzimierz +1 more
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Managing Risk of Ski Resorts with Snow Options
Almatourism, 2013 The main problem for the tourism businesses which operate in ski resorts is that their revenue are strictly connected to the cumulative snowfall level.
Emanuele Sileo
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The Monetary Value of Winter Sport Services in the European Alps [PDF]
Considering the increasing stress of competition in winter sports, e.g., caused by the increasing popularity of sun holidays in the winter season or recently developed new ski areas, cable-car companies have to optimize their price-performance ratio with
Christoph Breuer, Tim Pawlowski
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DroughtScape- Winter 2018 [PDF]
, 2018 CONTENTS Year in review: Drought eased in California, developed in Northern Plains......... 2 Quarterly Summary: Drought creeps across the country.............. 3 Annual impact summary: A year of wildfires..........
, National Drought Mitigation Center
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Reorganization of urban spaces in a mountain resort
Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2012 Fordist ski resorts must cope with internal and external pressures. These restrictions strain relations between the functional and symbolic rationale of the purpose-built resorts of the 1960-70s.
Émeline Hatt
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