Tourism and Climate Change: Risks and OpportunitiesChannel View Publications, 2007 - 329 pages This book discusses the tourism-climate system and provides a sound basis for those interested in tourism management and climate change mitigation, adaptation and policy. In the first three chapters, the book provides a general overview of the relationships between tourism and climate change and illustrates the complexity in four case studies that are relevant to the wide audience of tourism stakeholders. In the following seven chapters detailed discussion of the tourism and climate systems, greenhouse gas accounting for tourism, mitigation, climate risk management and comprehensive tourism-climate policies are provided. This book compiles and critically analyses the latest knowledge in this field of research and seeks to make it accessible to tourism practitioners and other stakeholders involved in tourism or climate change. |
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... winter , but an increase in precipitation intensity ( Giorgi et al . , 2004 ) . Precipitation extremes show an increasing trend in many Mediterranean areas , particularly in the warmest seasons ( summer and early autumn ) . The number ...
... winter temperatures , wetter than normal winters ( except in the north ) and springs , more frequent severe storms and flooding , and less frequent , but possibly more intense , Atlantic hurricanes ( Timmerman et al . , 1999 ) . There ...
... winter tourism , due to the high dependency on snow and the risk of snow- deficient winters ; but overall the importance of climate change is considered to be relatively low . Some even consider climate change and its consequences to be ...
Contents
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Contributions of tourism to global climate change | 17 |
Examples of TourismClimate Interactions | 20 |
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