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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

TRANSNATIONAL GENTRIFICATION IN NISEKO, JAPAN: A Model of Displacement Led by Linked Migration

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Transnational gentrification scholarship has provided insights into how transnational migration reshapes urban areas, yet its analytical lens has rarely extended to peripheral rural contexts outside Euro‐American settings, where distinct actors and mechanisms may emerge.
Ni Yan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in the development of ski tourism in Karachay-Cherkessia

open access: yesSustainable Development of Mountain Territories, 2023
Introduction. T he sphere of ski tourism is one of the priorities of state policy, which is expressed in the following factors: comprehensive restructuring of the tourism sector; development of large infrastructure projects; introduction of a mandatory system of classification of tourist facilities by location; formation of new ski trails and beaches ...
openaire   +1 more source

CONTESTED METABOLIC NODES: Shareholding Cooperatives and Planetary Ruralization in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract China's recent shareholding cooperative (SC) reform heralds a shift from expropriation‐led rural change to a post‐expropriation regime in which the countryside is reconstituted through circulation, capitalization, and new forms of collective governance. Existing interpretations, whether framed as market‐driven de‐collectivization, state‐led re‐
Yong Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying the Drivers of Newfoundland Capelin Recruitment After a Breakdown in the Environment–Recruitment Relationship

open access: yesFisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environment‐recruitment relationships often break down over time. This can occur because of spurious results from testing numerous environmental variables in the original analyses or from relative changes in the importance of specific environmental drivers over time.
Hannah M. Murphy   +4 more
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

Reduced cardiovascular mortality at moderate altitude: a putative role of physical activity and body mass

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Benefits of performing physical exercise at moderate altitude. At moderate altitude, increased resting metabolic rate and physical exertion promote physical fitness and exercise tolerance, whereas hypoxia suppresses appetite and elicits adaptations that increase tissue O2 delivery while augmenting O2‐independent ATP production ...
Robert T. Mallet   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change Adaptation of Alpine Ski Tourism in Spain [PDF]

open access: yesClimate, 2018
Mountain ecosystems are considered to be vulnerable to climate change, with potential detrimental effects including the reduction of the snow seasons, the gradual retreat of glaciers, and changes in water storage and availability. One vulnerable sector to climate change is winter tourism, with some resorts likely to experience a significant reduction ...
Luís Campos Rodrigues   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Observational Characteristics and Meteorological Drivers of Inferior Mirages in Kumtag Desert, China

open access: yesAtmospheric Science Letters, Volume 27, Issue 10, October 2026.
Inferior mirages occur on 98.9% of days each year in the Kumtag Desert, Xinjiang, China. Using real‐time camera monitoring mirage images and local meteorological data, we classified inferior mirages into three intensity grades and analyzed their observational characteristics and meteorological drivers.
Liangluan Song   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

CAN WINTER TOURISM BE TRULY SUSTAINABLE IN NATURAL PROTECTED AREAS?

open access: yesZbornik 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
doaj   +3 more sources

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