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Impact of Climate Change on Natural Snow Reliability, Snowmaking Capacities, and Wind Conditions of Ski Resorts in Northeast Turkey: A Dynamical Downscaling Approach

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2016
Many ski resorts worldwide are going through deteriorating snow cover conditions due to anthropogenic warming trends. As the natural and the artificially supported, i.e., technical, snow reliability of ski resorts diminish, the industry approaches a ...
Osman Cenk Demiroglu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source

Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
wiley   +1 more source

Multilocal Practices in a Pleasure Periphery: A Typology of Time, Space and Activity

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract The prerequisites, conditions and drivers of multilocality, that is, leading an everyday life in multiple places, were transformed through the accelerated adoption of remote work triggered by the COVID‐19 pandemic. We bring new perspectives to the field of multilocality research by exploring and theorising multilocal practices through a post ...
Nicolai Ekecrantz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utah Ski Archives: 2020 Keepsake Edition

open access: yes, 2020
The Utah Ski and Snowboard Archives is one of the most comprehensive collections in the entire country for research into the history and development of Utah\u27s prospering winter sports industry.
Friends of the Utah Ski Archives
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Challenges and Obstacles in the Development of Winter Sports Tourism in the Ski Slopes of Tehran [PDF]

open access: yesگردشگری و اوقات فراغت
This study was conducted to examine the challenges and obstacles in the development of winter sports tourism at the ski slopes of Tehran. The research population comprised all tourists and athletes frequenting these slopes, who responded to a 40-item ...
Siavash Imeni, Leyla Asadpour Shirazi
doaj   +1 more source

Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V.
Maryse Jayasuriya
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamique de la neige de culture dans les Alpes Françaises

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2015
Snowmaking facilities have been commonplace in the French Alps since 1974 and particularly since the 1990s. Now, nearly all resorts are equipped with snowmaking facilities, which guarantee snow for skiers and sufficient revenue for resorts.
Pierre Spandre   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate Warming Promotes Carbon Sequestration and Weathering in Tundra Landscapes and Alters Carbon Chemistry of Subarctic Lakes in Scandinavia

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology Communications, Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2026.
Climate‐induced vegetation greening (NDVImax) stimulated C‐sequestration in subarctic catchments by 10%–85% during the last decades. Increases in weathering and declines in non‐marine SO4 atmospheric deposits were identified as the main drivers of decadal increases in inorganic C (ICalk) run‐off to subarctic lakes.
Willem Goedkoop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change and asset prices: hedonic estimates for North American ski resorts [PDF]

open access: yes
We use a hedonic framework to estimate and simulate the impact of global warming on real estate prices at North American ski resorts. To do so, we combine data on resort-area housing prices from two sources--data on average prices for U.S.
Van Butsic   +2 more
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