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We use a physically-based water and energy balance model to simulate natural snow accumulation at 247 winter recreation locations across the continental United States. We combine this model with projections of snowmaking conditions to determine downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, and...
Author(s)
Wobus, C.; Small, E. E.; Hosterman, H.; Mills, D.; Stein, J.; Rissing, M.; Jones, R.; Duckworth, M.; Hall, R.; Kolian, M.; Creason, J.; Martinich, J.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Global Environmental Change, 2017, 45, pp 1-14
This qualitative study investigates how skiers' transport is addressed in environmental communications (ECs) produced by ski areas on New Zealand's South Island. Ski areas can build social legitimacy by positioning themselves as pro-environmental. Skiers' transport, which accounts for more CO2...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Sport & Tourism, 2017, 21, 3, pp 159-177
Nowadays, climate change poses a common recurring problem in our everyday life. The weather forecasts tend to be inaccurate, the swiftly changing weather often makes fun of the people. The same unpredictability applies for forecasting the amount of precipitation or snowing. The major problem in ski ...
Publisher
Agroinform Publishing House, Budapest, Hungary
Citation
APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2017, 11, 3/4, pp 19-25
This special issue focuses on the intersections of tourism moralities and tourism mobilities. The five papers (in addition to an introduction) deal with: the normalization and moralization of Canadian travel and tourism policies in the post-9/11 era; the intersections of mobilities and moralities...
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd, London, UK
Citation
Tourist Studies, 2017, 17, 1, pp 3-113
Sustainable development is difficult to be achieved in mountain regions because of their sensitivity to climate change. The rapid development of mountain tourism worldwide during the last years makes the goal for sustainable mountain tourism even more challenging. Key factor to the development of...
Publisher
IGI Global, Hershey, USA
Citation
International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), 2017, 8, 1, pp 14-28
To accurately characterize the ski industry's risk to future climate change and varied quality of snow conditions, it is important to assess how the industry has managed and adapted to contemporary anomalously warm ski seasons. This is the first temporal climate change analogue study to use higher...
Author(s)
Rutty, M.; Scott, D.; Johnson, P.; Pons, M.; Steiger, R.; Vilella, M.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Tourism Management, 2017, 58, pp 196-204
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