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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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Variabilidad espacial de los efectos socioeconómicos de las explotaciones de esquí alpino en los municipios rurales del Pirineo aragonés [PDF]
, 1991 22 páginas, 9 figuras, 4 tablas.[ES] Desde mediados del siglo XX se han impulsado las estaciones de esquí alpino en el Pirineo Aragonés, para incentivar las actividades turísticas y generar nuevas vías de desarrollo socio-económico.
Lasanta Martínez, Teodoro +2 more
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Wildland–urban interface expansion: Towards comprehensive planning processes
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Wildland–urban interface (WUI) expansion is accelerating in numerous regions around the world due to increasing amenity‐led migration processes, defined as the movement of people seeking higher environmental quality. While WUI areas are complex social–ecological systems requiring holistic planning and management, they are usually approached ...
Clara Mosso +2 more
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Weather and Climate Information for Tourism [PDF]
, 2010 The tourism sector is one of the largest and fastest growing global industries and is a significant contributor to national and local economies around the world. The interface between climate and tourism is multifaceted and complex, as climate represents
Lemieux, Christopher J., Scott, D.J.
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U.S. Skiing Employment: East and West [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] The skiing facilities industry is limited to establishments that only offer downhill or cross country skiing and no overnight accommodations.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Assessing habitat suitability for black grouse broods at the bioregional scale
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.The black grouse Lyrurus tetrix, a galliform species emblematic of the European Alps, is currently threatened by habitat change, particularly given the closure of heathland linked to the rising tree line at higher altitudes. The presence of heathlands in good ecological condition is, however, imperative for the species' reproduction.
Alexandre T. M. Defossez +6 more
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Universities, ‘Left Behind Places’ and the Making of a Moral Crisis
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Britain's universities face an acute financial and moral crisis. Once celebrated as engines of the knowledge economy and social mobility, they are now viewed increasingly with suspicion—criticised as elitist, self‐serving and detached from public needs.
Sarah Chaytor, John Tomaney
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International 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
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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The problem of seasonality in the ski resorts of the Sverdlovsk region [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper the concept and the problem of seasonality, additional services and analyzed, and the percentage by which the ski resorts in the Sverdlovsk region open all year round.
Goryachkina, Y. A. +1 more
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