US ski industry adaptation to climate change: Hard, soft and policy strategies

Tourism and Global Environmental Change: Ecological, Social, Economic and Political Interrelationships

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 262-285

  Scott, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 84905788748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203011911     Document Type: Chapter

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