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Economic Contributions of Winter Sports in a Changing Climate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In mountain towns across the United States that rely on winter tourism, snow is currency. For snow lovers and the winter sports industry, predictions of a future with warmer winters, reduced snowfall, and shorter snow seasons is inspiring them to ...
Burakowski, Elizabeth   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Technology on Snow and Ice: Innovation, Monitoring, and Performance for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Medicine &Science in Sports, Volume 36, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Elite performance in Olympic winter sports depends on the interplay among the athlete, equipment, and the snow or ice. This naturally evolves with temperature, humidity, wind, preparation, and contact between the equipment and its surface. Together, these factors continuously rebalance the forces of gravity, aerodynamic drag, and friction ...
Andreas Almqvist   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Warming winters and New Hampshire’s lost ski areas: An integrated case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
New Hampshire’s mountains and winter climate support a ski industry that contributes substantially to the state economy. Through more than 70 years of history, this industry has adapted and changed with its host society.
Hamilton, Lawrence C.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Maladaptation to Climate Change Poses a Threat to Future Aquaculture Production

open access: yesReviews in Aquaculture, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2026.
This study considers the risks of maladaptation to climate change in the aquaculture sector. It highlights potential routes that maladaptation could arise through six Aquaculture Maladaptation Outcomes and discusses the aquaculture adaptation‐maladaptation continuum, as well as potential ways to avoid maladaptation.
Lynne Falconer   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

In Defense of Property [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This Article responds to an emerging view, in scholarship and popular society, that it is normatively undesirable to employ property law as a means of protecting indigenous cultural heritage. Recent critiques suggest that propertizing culture impedes the
Carpenter, Kristen A.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

A Multi‐Century Meteo‐Hydrological Analysis in the Italian Alps: Daily Streamflow (1862–2022) at Different Time Scales

open access: yesHydrological Processes, Volume 39, Issue 11, November 2025.
The second longest time series (1862–2022) for Italy and possibly the Mediterranean area of daily hydrometric levels and streamflow data was reconstructed for the Adige river basin, in the Italian Alps (9793 km2). Annual precipitation is stationary and annual streamflow is significantly declining at a rate of −1.0 mm year−1 corresponding to −1.3 ...
Roberto Ranzi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2019
Resiliency and adaptation are increasingly prevalent in climate change policy as well as scholarship, yet scholars have brought forward several critiques of these concepts along analytical as well as political lines.
Adam Dunstan
doaj   +1 more source

Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson's "Beneath the Roses" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Gregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular ...
Charles Gleek
core   +2 more sources

Changes in Climate and Snow Cover in View of Functioning of Ski Resorts in Russia in the Early 21th Century

open access: yesЛëд и снег, 2023
The development of winter ski tourism and characteristics of ski resorts in various regions of Russia are closely related to climatic conditions, the most important of which are the presence and duration of snow cover.
V. V. Vinogradova, T. B. Titkova
doaj   +1 more source

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