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Study region: Zhangjiakou competition zone (ZJK-CZ) of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games. Study focus: Under the extreme uncertainty of future climate change scenarios, a system solution capable of snow depth forecasting is urgently needed for the ...
Donghang Shao +4 more
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Climate Change and (Mal)Adaptation in Tourism‐Intensive Alpine Regions
Abstract Tourism, especially in winter, accounts for a large share of economic income in Alpine regions. At the same time, these regions are more severely affected by climate change, leading to shorter winter seasons and reduced snow cover. This presents a pressing issue for areas reliant on income from winter tourism through activities such as skiing.
Valentina Ausserladscheider
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Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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Climate change adaptation through an integrative lens in Aotearoa New Zealand. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Climate change is being felt across all human and natural systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and is projected to worsen this decade as impacts compound and cascade through natural system and sectoral dependencies. The effectiveness of adaptation is constrained by how fast greenhouse gas emissions are reduced globally, the pace of change, the ...
Lawrence J +16 more
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How Do Adaptation Practices Become Climate Maladaptive? A Scoping Review of Empirical Scholarship
This article reviews empirical research about how adaptations are associated as climate maladaptive, examining drivers and proposed decision support measures. To advance the field and contribute to climate risk reduction, it recommends integrating critical theories, expanding studies across diverse sectors, increasing global South authorship ...
Sameer H. Shah +3 more
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Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience
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
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ABSTRACT This study examines the dynamics of alpine resorts and their evolution in international marketing. International marketing is a complex process involving different actors across borders. The literature has often examined marketing at specific points in time.
Chihiro Nakayama
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Variation of Snowmaking Hours on the Ski Slopes in the Moscow Region in Recent Years [PDF]
Ongoing climate variations and variation of winter weather conditions in recent years in the Moscow region have strongly influenced the hill skiing industry. This paper calculates snowmaking hours and their variations in recent years to enable conclusions about ongoing changes and possible consequences for the future.
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The deployment of snowmaking in the French ski tourism industry: a path development approach
Many mountainous regions in Europe, including their tourism sectors, show a high degree of economic specialization. The ski tourism industry forms part of the long-standing economic success of the French Alps. Over the past 20 years, snowmaking has become a key feature of ski tourism, but future climate change will decrease its effectiveness as an ...
Berard-Chenu, Lucas +3 more
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Maladaptation to Climate Change Poses a Threat to Future Aquaculture Production
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
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