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Winter sports resorts’ strategies to adapt to climate change

General trends and local responses

by Clémence Massart (Volume editor) George Emmanuelle (Volume editor) Philippe Bourdeau (Volume editor) Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset (Volume editor) Christophe Gauchon (Volume editor)
©2020 Edited Collection 362 Pages

Summary

How do global changes influence the trajectory of winter sports resorts and their future? What local responses are made in different regions of the world according to historical contexts and specific resources? Based on an interdisciplinary reading of a vast repertoire of cases located in Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania, the book brings together a panel of international reference authors who present their latest work. Their contributions put into perspective many forms of adaptation to climate, economic, social and cultural transformations. This innovative approach, which combines environmental and societal issues, will be of interest to all observers and players in the winter sports sector.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the editors
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • I The Economic and Managerial Models of Ski Resorts
  • 1.1 Contemporary Problems and Challenges of Polish Ski Resorts – Problems and Opportunities of Integrated and Catalytic Development Theory Implementation in Post-Communist Country (Michal Zemla)
  • 1.2 Destination Governance and the Challenge of Balancing Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in Tourist Destinations – The Case of Åre, Sweden (Sara Nordin and Bo Svensson)
  • 1.3 Ski Resorts Development in Korea: Past, Present, and Future (Doyeon Won)
  • 1.4 An Evolutionary Path of Resort Governance: The Case of British Columbia, Canada (Peter W. Willimas, Chris Sheppard & Alison M. Gill)
  • 1.5 Skiing in the Catalan Pyrenees: Between Private Ventures and Public Rescue (Beltran Oriol and Ismael Vaccaro)
  • II Strategies and Forms of Adaptation of Resorts to Global Changes
  • 2.1 Small Mountain Resorts between Change and New Expectations of Demand (Andrea Macchiavelli)
  • 2.2 How Ski Resorts in Quebec are Transforming to Deal with Climate Change (Michel Archambault)
  • 2.3 From Crisis to Renewal: Adaptative Waves as an Approach to Understand Systemic Resilience in Mountain Tourism Destinations (Romano Wyss & Tobias Luthe)
  • 2.4 Critical Reflections on Projections of Climate Change Risk for the Ski Industry (Daniel Scott & Robert Steiger)
  • III Emerging Markets and Practices
  • 3.1 Skiing, Climate Change, Regional Development and Terrorism: A GIS-Based Suitability Analysis for Future Ski Tourism Development in Turkey (Cenk Demiroglu)
  • 3.2 Ski Tourism in China: Historical Development and Challenges in an Era of Climate Change (Yan Fang, Daniel Scott, and Robert Steiger)
  • 3.3 The Future of Ski Resorts in the Light of Climate Change: A Consideration from the Tourist’s Point of View (Coralie Achin)
  • 3.4 Environmental Management in Ski Resorts (Ulrike Pröbstl)
  • Conclusion
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables

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About the editors

Clémence Massart has a PhD in sociology. She is specialized in environmental issues, socio-technical controversies and participatory approaches. She has particulary worked on emerging diseases linked to global changes.

Emmanuelle George is a researcher in territorial economy at INRAE (National Institute for Research in Agriculture, Food and Environment) in Grenoble, unit LESSEM (Laboratoire EcoSystèmes et Sociétés en Montagne). Her work focuses on winter sports resorts and their evolutionary trajectories faced to the challenges of global change.

Philippe Bourdeau teaches cultural geography at Grenoble-Alpes University (UMR PACTE, LabEx ITTEM). His research focuses on the cross effects of environmental and societal changes on tourism and mountain sports.

Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset is Professor of Contemporary History at Grenoble Alpes University (UMR 5190 LARHRA). As a specialist in social and cultural history, she approaches the question of mountain territories through the long-term construction of narratives on societies through a few analytical focus - tourism, risks, migrations - and the taking into account of memory and heritage phenomena.

Christophe Gauchon teaches geography at University Savoie Mont-Blanc (UMR EDYTEM, LabEx ITTEM). His research focuses on links between Heritage and Tourism in mountain areas.

About the book

Clémence Massart, Emmanuelle George, Philippe Bourdeau,
Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset and Christophe Gauchon (eds.)

Winter sports resorts’ strategies to adapt to climate change

How do global changes influence the trajectory of winter sports resorts and their future? What local responses are made in different regions of the world according to historical contexts and specific resources? Based on an interdisciplinary reading of a vast repertoire of cases located in Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania, the book brings together a panel of international reference authors who present their latest work. Their contributions put into perspective many forms of adaptation to climate, economic, social and cultural transformations. This innovative approach, which combines environmental and societal issues, will be of interest to all observers and players in the winter sports sector.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

I The Economic and Managerial Models of Ski Resorts

1.1 Contemporary Problems and Challenges of Polish Ski Resorts – Problems and Opportunities of Integrated and Catalytic Development Theory Implementation in Post-Communist Country

Michal Zemla

1.2 Destination Governance and the Challenge of Balancing Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in Tourist Destinations – The Case of Åre, Sweden

Sara Nordin and Bo Svensson

1.3 Ski Resorts Development in Korea: Past, Present, and Future

Doyeon Won

1.4 An Evolutionary Path of Resort Governance: The Case of British Columbia, Canada

Peter W. Willimas, Chris Sheppard & Alison M. Gill

1.5 Skiing in the Catalan Pyrenees: Between Private Ventures and Public Rescue

Beltran Oriol and Ismael Vaccaro

II Strategies and Forms of Adaptation of Resorts to Global Changes

2.1 Small Mountain Resorts between Change and New Expectations of Demand

Andrea Macchiavelli

2.2 How Ski Resorts in Quebec are Transforming to Deal with Climate Change

Michel Archambault

2.3 From Crisis to Renewal: Adaptative Waves as an Approach to Understand Systemic Resilience in Mountain Tourism Destinations

Romano Wyss & Tobias Luthe

2.4 Critical Reflections on Projections of Climate Change Risk for the Ski Industry

Daniel Scott & Robert Steiger

III Emerging Markets and Practices

3.1 Skiing, Climate Change, Regional Development and Terrorism: A GIS-Based Suitability Analysis for Future Ski Tourism Development in Turkey

Cenk Demiroglu

3.2 Ski Tourism in China: Historical Development and Challenges in an Era of Climate Change

Yan Fang, Daniel Scott, and Robert Steiger

3.3 The Future of Ski Resorts in the Light of Climate Change: A Consideration from the Tourist’s Point of View

Coralie Achin

3.4 Environmental Management in Ski Resorts

Ulrike Pröbstl

Conclusion

List of Figures

List of Tables

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List of Contributors

Coralie Achin

Université Grenoble Alpes, Labex ITTEM INRAE-LESSEM,

Michel Archambault

Université du Québec à Montréal, Department of Urban Studies and Tourism, Canada

Cenk Demiroglu

Umeå University, Suède, Department of Geography and Economic History

Yan Fang

Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Chine

Alison M. Gill

Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography, Canada

Tobias Luthe

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Suisse & University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur, Department Living Environment, Suisse

Andrea Macchiavelli

Université de Bergame, Italie

Sara Nordin

The European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR), Sweden

Beltran Oriol

Universitat de Barcelona, Espagne

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Ulrike Pröbstl

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning, Vienne, Autriche

Daniel Scott

University of Waterloo, Geography and Environment Management, Canada & University of Innsbruck, Autriche

Chris Sheppard

Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography, Canada

Robert Steiger

University of Waterloo, Geography and Environment Management, Canada & University of Innsbruck, Autriche

Bo Svensson

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden

Ismael Vaccaro

McGill University, Canada

Peter W. Williams

Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography, Canada

Doyeon Won

Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (United-States), Department of Kinesiology

Romano Wyss

Details

Pages
362
Publication Year
2020
ISBN (PDF)
9782807613126
ISBN (ePUB)
9782807613133
ISBN (MOBI)
9782807613140
ISBN (Hardcover)
9782807615298
ISBN (Softcover)
9782807613119
DOI
10.3726/b16587
Language
English
Publication date
2020 (December)
Keywords
Winter sports ski resort climate change global change Mountain
Published
Bruxelles, Berlin, Bern, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 362 pp., 20 fig. col, 37 fig. b/w, 15 tables.

Biographical notes

Clémence Massart (Volume editor) George Emmanuelle (Volume editor) Philippe Bourdeau (Volume editor) Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset (Volume editor) Christophe Gauchon (Volume editor)

Clémence Massart has a PhD in sociology. She is specialized in environmental issues, socio-technical controversies and participatory approaches. She has particulary worked on emerging diseases linked to global changes. Emmanuelle George is a researcher in territorial economy at INRAE (National Institute for Research in Agriculture, Food and Environment) in Grenoble, unit LESSEM (Laboratoire EcoSystèmes et Sociétés en Montagne). Her work focuses on winter sports resorts and their evolutionary trajectories faced to the challenges of global change. Philippe Bourdeau teaches cultural geography at Grenoble-Alpes University (UMR PACTE, LabEx ITTEM). His research focuses on the cross effects of environmental and societal changes on tourism and mountain sports. Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset is Professor of Contemporary History at Grenoble Alpes University (UMR 5190 LARHRA). As a specialist in social and cultural history, she approaches the question of mountain territories through the long-term construction of narratives on societies through a few analytical focus - tourism, risks, migrations - and the taking into account of memory and heritage phenomena. Christophe Gauchon teaches geography at University Savoie Mont-Blanc (UMR EDYTEM, LabEx ITTEM). His research focuses on links between Heritage and Tourism in mountain areas.

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