Challenges due to changing ideas of natural resources: Tourism and power plant development in the Icelandic wilderness

Polar Record

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 82-91

  Sæórsdóttir, Anna Dóra ^a   Saarinen, Jarkko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMAL POWER; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; LEISURE INDUSTRY; NATURAL RESOURCE; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION; WILDERNESS AREA;

ICELAND;

EID: 84951032888     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: 14753057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247415000273     Document Type: Review

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