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An agent-based model to explore scenarios of adaptation to climate change in an alpine tourism destination [PDF]
, 2010 The European Alpine region is one of the most sensitive to climate change impacts. ClimAlpTour is a European research project of the Alpine Space Programme, dealing with the expected decrease in snow and ice cover.
Balbi, Stefano +2 more
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CAN WINTER TOURISM BE TRULY SUSTAINABLE IN NATURAL PROTECTED AREAS?
Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2019 Even though legally protected, many areas worldwide are under a certain level of human pressure. Significant for humanity for many reasons, mountain regions are also threatened because of different anthropogenic activities, especially the ones with ...
Nina B. Ćurčić +3 more
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Annals of Tourism Research Empirical InsightsCanadian ski tourism destinations face increasing climate and carbon risks yet are not currently prepared to adapt to climate change or a decarbonized future.
Natalie L.B. Knowles, Daniel Scott
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines what is known at this stage, before the envisaged publication of the legislative proposal by the European Commission in March/April 2025, about the European Union's Space Act, focusing on its potential application to non‐EU operators.
Ingo Baumann, Katharina Prall
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Impact of snow variability on the Swiss winter tourism sector: implications in an era of climate change [PDF]
, 2018 With its numerous mountain regions and its well developed winter tourism infrastructures, Switzerland is a country whose tourism sector is known to be sensitive to snowpack variability.
Gonseth, Camille
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Anti‐Astrotropik — Outer Space, Technology and Resistance in the Tropics
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.This paper traces an intellectual and geographical arc of thinking about outer space in the tropics, connecting Peter Redfield's Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (2000), Sean T. Mitchell's Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil (2017) and Asif Siddiqi's Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent
Rob Krawczyk
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The vulnerability of Pyrenean ski resorts to climate-induced changes in the snowpack [PDF]
, 2015 Winter tourism is the main source of income and the driving force of local development in many mountain areas. However, in recent years, the industry has been identified as being extremely vulnerable to future climate change.
Jover Comas, Eric +3 more
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Multilocal Practices in a Pleasure Periphery: A Typology of Time, Space and Activity
Tijdschrift 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
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Accessibility of Tourism Space from a Geographical Perspective [PDF]
, 2014 The accessibility of tourism space is becoming an increasingly significant issue in geographical research due to, amongst other things, demographic changes (an ageing population, growing numbers of people with disabilities) alongside guaranteeing a ...
Zajadacz, Alina
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Visualising the Urban Imaginary: Failure and Irresolution in an Urban Digital Twin
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract The article analyses the visualisation encountered in an urban digital twin to argue that recognising the visualisation as a representation of the city is dependent upon habituation to perceptual and computational practices. Through speculative engagement with moments of visual irresolution, the article highlights the importance of ...
Emma McRae
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