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Climate Change and Utah Ski Resorts: Impacts, Perceptions, and Adaptation Strategies
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Climate Change and Utah Ski Resorts: Impacts, Perceptions, and Adaptation Strategies |
| Creator | Wilkins, Emily J. Akbar, Hadia Saley, Tara C. Hager, Rachel Elkin, Colten M. Belmont, Patrick Flint, Courtney G. Smith, Jordan W. |
| Description | Climate change is a threat to ski resorts, the ski industry, and mountain communities that rely on ski tourism. Ski resorts may be able to mitigate some of the social and economic impacts caused by climate change with proactive adaptation strategies. Using historical weather data, future climate projections, and interviews with ski resort managers in Utah (United States), this research investigates the effects of climate change on ski resorts across the state. We examine temperature change at... |
| Date | 2021-09-28T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1146 info:doi/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-20-00065.1 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/wats_facpub/article/2166/viewcontent/WATSfacpub2019_WilkinsAkbarSaley_ClimateChangeUtah.pdf |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | International Mountain Society |
| Subject | Utah snowmaking outdoor recreation nature-based tourism ski tourism climate temperature Life Sciences |
