Communicating Risk in Glacier Tourism: A Case Study of the Svínafellsheiði Fracture in Iceland

Every day in early summer 2018, an estimated 1000 tourists went on guided tours of Svínafellsjökull, an outlet glacier in southeast Iceland. However, this changed on 22 June 2018, when a warning was issued against glacial travel due to the risk of a large landslide caused by a fracture in the surrou...

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Published in:Mountain Research and Development
Main Authors: Stephanie Matti, Helga Ögmundardóttir, Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir, Uta Reichardt
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: International Mountain Society 2022
Subjects:
climate change
glacier
iceland
large landslide
risk communication
tourism
geo
envir
Svínafellsheiði
Svínafellsjökull
Iceland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-21-00051.1

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