Stakeholder Responses to Climate Change in the Swiss Alps | Climate Change Adaptation in Alpine Tourism

Margot Hill

ISBN 10: 3846589888 / ISBN 13: 9783846589885

Published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012

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Stakeholder Responses to Climate Change in the Swiss Alps | Climate Change Adaptation in Alpine Tourism | Margot Hill | Taschenbuch | Englisch | LAP Lambert Academic Publishing | EAN 9783846589885 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stakeholder Responses to Climate Change in the Swiss Alps | Climate Change Adaptation in Alpine Tourism
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3846589888
• ISBN 13: 9783846589885
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 6D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 166 grams
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Synopsis

The Alps will experience some of the most pronounced effects of climate change, placing socio-economic stresses on alpine communities, particularly those that rely on seasonal tourism. How stakeholders need to respond to climate change within the Alps has been well documented in the academic literature, with studies focussing on measures to minimise damage on winter ski tourism and from increased natural hazards. Concepts of adaptation measures were tested on stakeholders from the private and public sector within two case study areas within the Swiss Alps, both part of the communes of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Jungfrau Aletsch Bietschorn. A series of semi-structured interviews took place to assess the response of stakeholders from the private and public sectors across the local, regional and national level to the increasing risks of climate change on their economic livelihoods. Adaptation strategies were found to be evenly segmented across the different sectors and levels, but to focus almost entirely on maintaining the status quo of winter tourism, while increasing the market share of summer tourism for the destination.

About the Author

Margot is currently a Post doc researcher at the University of Geneva, in the Research Group on Climate Change and Climate Change Impacts, working on the adaptive capacity of water governance systems in relation to climate change impacts. She completed her bachelors at the University of Cambridge and her MSc at Imperial College, London.