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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, Uroš V. Milinčić, Ana Stranjančević, Miroljub A. Milinčić   +3 more
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 833-851, September 2026.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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SEASONAL TOURISM DEMAND IN LEBANESE SKI RESORTS

International Journal of Tourism & Hospitality Reviews, 2019
Purpose of the study: The main objective of this study is to analyze the profile of Lebanese ski resorts’ visitors, their motivations, preferences, and perceptions. Thus, authors seek to analyze the characteristics of seasonal tourism demand in Lebanese ski resorts for the sake of reducing seasonality. Methodology: Quantitative methods were used ...
Socrat Ghadban, Maya Shames, Jad Abou Arrage, Erick Leroux   +3 more
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Bonds, Bounds, and Borders: Crafting Hospitality with Unauthorized Migrants in Southern France

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 528-536, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the everyday politics of migrant hospitality in rural Southern France. Drawing on four years of fieldwork alongside benevolent residents hosting unauthorized migrants at their home or volunteering in migrant shelters, I consider how residents attempted to make up for the state's abandonment of migrant lives, the ethical ...
Céline Eschenbrenner
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VLM4S: A Vision‐Language Model Framework for Geographically and Environmentally Informed Soundscape Assessment

Transactions in GIS, Volume 30, Issue 6, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Sound environments shape urban experience, yet conventional noise monitoring relies on isolated sensors lacking semantic context and spatial scalability. In this study, we develop a Vision‐Language Model for Soundscape (VLM4S), an exploratory, sensor‐free framework for inferring acoustic conditions from street‐view imagery.
Pengyu Chen, Sicheng Wang, Fangzheng Lyu, John A. Kupfer, Cuizhen Wang, Xiao Huang, Tiancheng Li   +6 more
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Utah Ski Archives: 2020 Keepsake Edition

, 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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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 1735-1759, August 2026.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
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Failures in Building Partnership for Success in the Competitive Market: The Case of Polish Ski Resorts [PDF]

The topic of local stakeholders’ collaboration for success on the tourism market is a popular one, however research is usually devoted to well established Western economies.
Michal Zemla
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Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 910-926, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso, Harrison Fried, Karissa Courtney, Jonathan Salerno, Stephanie Kampf, Andrea Baudoin Farah   +5 more
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Climate change and asset prices: hedonic estimates for North American ski resorts [PDF]

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, Ellen Hanak, Robert G. Valletta   +2 more
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