Ecological Environmental Change And Winter Sports: Lessons Learned from the ALPS, Prospectives for China
Winter sports, mostly focused on skiing, have followed unprecedented success since more than 50 years worldwide, based on a combination of unique natural resources in mountains, including both snow, steep slopes and intensive sunshine. However, with the turn of the millennium, the effects of climate change and anthropogenic development are transforming winter sports from a state where their survival was totally dependant on natural resources to the survival of natural resources in the face of winter sports. Based on what were once plentiful natural resources, composed mainly of snow, glaciers and ice, the monopoly of winter sports is now facing new limitations in terms of snow reliability and glacier extend. In mountains worldwide, the environment and ecological systems are already undergoing rapid changes as a result of climate change, therefore the environmental and ecological effects of winter sports are often amplified. Snow reliability has become a major ecological and economic issue, guaranteed nowadays by the production of artificial snow. Within this context, water availability, water loss, ecology and soil characteristics, regional climatic influences, economic costs and benefits and consumer preferences all require consideration. The benefits of environmental indicators, both in terms of ecology and economy are discussed. The snow climatology of China is discussed and examples of existing green politics with relation to ski areas presented.
Carmen de Jong
The Mountain Institute, University of Savoy, France
国际会议
2009 Winter Universiade Sport Science Conference(2009年世界大学生冬季运动会体育科学大会)
哈尔滨
英文
19-32
2009-02-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）