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Real Estate Development in the Ski Resorts of the Tarentaise Valley
In the context of a mature winter sports market and ageing accommodation facilities, most contemporary French ski resorts are having to deal with a gradual decline in visitor numbers.
Gabriel Fablet
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Rethinking the Race–Nation Nexus: Spatial Narratives of Racialised Italians in the United Kingdom
ABSTRACT Nation and race are often theorised as closely intertwined, with nationalism frequently positioned as a driving force behind racism. The article advances an empirically grounded argument that challenges this assumed relationship. In particular, it explores how space, understood as a socially constructed category, is discursively mobilised in ...
Marco Antonsich
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Climate change and snow tourism in Australia [PDF]
This paper examines impacts of climate change as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCQ on the snow-reliability ofthe Australian ski fields.
U. König
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Managing Accident Prevention in Ski Resorts: Participants' Actual Velocities in Slow Zones. [PDF]
Carus L, Mamaqi-Kapllani X.
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Nonmetro Recreation Counties: Their Identification and Rapid Growth [PDF]
More than 80 percent of the Nation’s 285 million people now reside in metropolitan areas. Many in this vast city and suburban population are attracted to the recreational opportunities and attractions of rural areas, such as beautiful scenery, lakes ...
Beale, Calvin L, Johnson, Kenneth M.
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Abstract Outdoor recreation is reported to have many positive effects on individuals and communities. However, when recreationists' presence becomes overcrowding, it can cause ecological damage to natural sites while also reducing the benefits of outdoor recreation for recreationists and local communities.
Giacomo Pagot +2 more
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Abstract There are growing societal expectations that forests are managed for multiple benefits including carbon storage, biodiversity, health and recreation. Consequently, forest managers are increasingly expected to consider how external factors, including climate change, affect the future of their forests and the wider public benefits they provide ...
Louise Sing +4 more
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ABSTRACT Renewed interest in rural areas during the COVID‐19 pandemic generated a sense of optimism concerning the fate of declining rural areas, with the notion of a ‘rural revival’ evident in both popular and academic discourse. While many studies have explored urban–rural migration during the pandemic, few have done so from the specific perspective ...
Linda Randall
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All downhill from here? Climate change and house prices in the Swiss Alps
This 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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