Glacier tourism and climate change: effects, adaptations, and perspectives in the Alps
Climate change strongly affects mountain tourism activities. Glacier tourism is highly affected by the retreat of glaciers. However, research on the effects and adaptations of glacier tourism to climate change is scarce in Europe. By analysing the glacio-geomorphological literature, semi-structured...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:8571665 2023-05-15T17:57:43+02:00 Glacier tourism and climate change: effects, adaptations, and perspectives in the Alps Salim, Emmanuel Ravanel, Ludovic Bourdeau, Philippe Deline, Philip 2021-11-06 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8571665/ https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01849-0 en eng Springer Berlin Heidelberg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8571665/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01849-0 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Reg Environ Change Original Article Text 2021 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01849-0 2021-11-14T01:39:27Z Climate change strongly affects mountain tourism activities. Glacier tourism is highly affected by the retreat of glaciers. However, research on the effects and adaptations of glacier tourism to climate change is scarce in Europe. By analysing the glacio-geomorphological literature, semi-structured interviews, and observations at six major Alpine glacier tourism sites, we aim to identify the physical processes that affect glacier tourism in the Alps and how stakeholders perceive and adapt to them. The results reveal that glacier retreat and the associated paraglacial dynamics and permafrost warming strongly affect glacier tourism. Stakeholders perceive six main issues: management, itinerary, infrastructure, attractiveness, safety, and activity. In response, they have been adapting with eight strategies: management change, technical means implementation, mitigation, diversification, access and itinerary maintenance, heritage development, planning, and implementation of transformation projects. These strategies are discussed regarding their relevance to tourism model transition to guarantee future sustainability. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10113-021-01849-0. Text permafrost PubMed Central (PMC) Regional Environmental Change 21 4 |
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Climate change strongly affects mountain tourism activities. Glacier tourism is highly affected by the retreat of glaciers. However, research on the effects and adaptations of glacier tourism to climate change is scarce in Europe. By analysing the glacio-geomorphological literature, semi-structured interviews, and observations at six major Alpine glacier tourism sites, we aim to identify the physical processes that affect glacier tourism in the Alps and how stakeholders perceive and adapt to them. The results reveal that glacier retreat and the associated paraglacial dynamics and permafrost warming strongly affect glacier tourism. Stakeholders perceive six main issues: management, itinerary, infrastructure, attractiveness, safety, and activity. In response, they have been adapting with eight strategies: management change, technical means implementation, mitigation, diversification, access and itinerary maintenance, heritage development, planning, and implementation of transformation projects. These strategies are discussed regarding their relevance to tourism model transition to guarantee future sustainability. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10113-021-01849-0. |
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