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Climate controls on snow reliability in French Alps ski resorts
Scientific Reports, 2019 Ski tourism is a major sector of mountain regions economy, which is under the threat of long-term climate change. Snow management, and in particular grooming and artificial snowmaking, has become a routine component of ski resort operations, holding ...
P. Spandre +7 more
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, 2020 This study presents the evolution of the snow reliability in the 24 alpine ski resorts of the Isere departement (Northern French Alps, around Grenoble) over the last decades and its projection into the 21st century, taking into account grooming and ...
M. Gerbaux +4 more
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STRATIFIED ADAPTATION: Infrastructure, Elevation, and Cascading Floods in the Urban Mekong Delta
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Flood‐prone cities in the global South are increasingly the target of infrastructure projects aimed at building climate ‘resilience’. At the same time, residents of these cities take adaptation to flooding into their own hands. In this article we examine the interrelationship between household‐scale and urban‐scale flood mitigation projects in
Lizzie Yarina +3 more
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Gis analysis of the transport accessibility of ski resorts in Russia
Наука. Инновации. Технологии, 2022 On the basis of GIS technologies, the transport accessibility of the ten most visited ski resorts in Russia was analyzed: Sheregesh, Krasnaya Polyana, Sorochany, Dombai, Igor, Bobrovy Log, Elbrus, Solar Valley, Sviyazhsky Hills, Arkhyz.
Stanislav Olegovich Antipov +1 more
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Economic sustainability and financial situation of the alpine ski resorts on the Catalan Pyrenees
Intangible Capital, 2016 Purpose: The present work seeks analyze the profitability and the financial situation of the main Catalan alpine ski resorts, with the objective to check if these are sustainable from an economic point of view, taking into account the external factors ...
Laura Sánchez Pulido +2 more
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Ski Resort Closures and Opportunities for Sustainability in North America
Land, 2022 More than half of the ski resorts in North America have closed since the early building booms—many facing a warming climate and pressures to find water to make artificial snow.
Daniel Moscovici
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Archaeometry, 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
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Car use in ski resort: the moderating role of perceived lack of facilities
European Journal of Tourism Research, 2015 Fifty-seven percent of greenhouse gases produced by ski resorts are due to the transport of tourists to the resorts. More than eighty percent of them travel by car.
Jean-Luc Giannelloni, Elisabeth Robinot
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Risk management of climate impact for tourism operators: An empirical analysis on ski resorts
Tourism Management, 2020 The aim of this paper is to analyze the performance of hedging strategies based on snow and temperature options developed by ski operators to protect their profitability under adverse changes in climatic conditions.
L. Ballotta +4 more
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The Moral (Un)Desirability of New Biomedical Technologies as Potential Techno‐Fixes
Bioethics, 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
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