The amenity migrants : seeking and sustaining mountains and their cultures /

This book describes and analyses the challenges and opportunities of amenity migration to mountain areas and its management, and offers related recommendations. The book's chapters cover the subject through case studies at international, regional and local levels, along with overarching themes...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Moss, Laurence A. G. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
Subjects:	Amenity migration > Environmental aspects. Amenity migration. Environmental degradation. Human ecology. Mountain ecology. Mountains. Recreation areas > Environmental aspects. Demography. Housing and Settlement. Land Resources. Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000) Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000) Pollution and Degradation. Recreational Facilities and Management, (New March 2000) Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000) Tourism and Travel. Amenity and recreation areas. Environmental impact. Housing. Man. Management. Migration. Motivation. Mountain areas. Outdoor recreation. Sustainability. Tourism. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The Amenity Migrants : Ecological Challenge to Contemporary Shangri-La / Laurence A.G. Moss
The Spiritual Dimension of Moving to the Mountains / Harvey Locke
Guiding Back from the Precipice : Leveraging the Power of Recreational Users to Protect Mountain Environments / Linda McMillan
Geographic Perspective on Amenity Migration across the USA : National-, Regional- and Local-scale Analysis / Peter B. Nelson
Santa Fe, a Fading Dream : 1986 Profile and 2005 Postscript / Romella S. Glorioso and Laurence A.G. Moss
'Too Much Love?' : the Environmental and Community Impacts of Amenity Migrants on Jackson Hole, Wyoming / Margie Lynch
Gateway to Glacier : Will Amenity Migrants in North-western Montana Lead the Way for Amenity Conservation? / Steve Thompson
Alberta's Amenities Rush / Bart Robinson and Carole Stark
Finding a Pad in Paradise : Amenity Migration Effects on Whistler, British Columbia / Sean R. Moore, Peter W. Williams and Alison Gill
Cultural Survival and Environmental Degradation in the Mountains of the Secwepemc / Janice R. Billy
Planning for Amenity Migration in Communities of the British Columbia Hinterland / Raymond Chipeniuk
A Brief History of Amenity Migration in the Adirondack Mountains / Wayne R. Glass
Cultural and Environmental Amenities in Peri-urban Change : the Case of San Antonio de Escazú, Costa Rica / Paulina Chaverri P.
Amenity Migration in the Patagonian Mountain Community of San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén, Argentina / Adriana Otero, Lía Nakayama, Susana Marioni, Elisa Gallego, Alicia Lonac, Andrés Dimitriu, Rodrigo González and Claudia Hosid
The Specifics of Amenity Migration in the European Alps / Manfred Perlik
Second Homes, Work Commuting and Amenity Migrants in Norway's Mountain Areas / Thor Flognfeldt Jr
Amenity Migration and Tourism Development in the Tärna Mountains, Sweden / Dieter K. Müller
A Bioregion in Jeopardy : the Strategic Challenge of Amenity Migration in Baguio, The Philippines / Romella S. Glorioso
Green Change : Inland Amenity Migration in Australia / Ralf Buckley, Nikola Sander, Claudia Ollenburg and Jan Warnken
Amenity Migration in the South Island of New Zealand : Contestation for Land and Landscape in Central Otago / C. Michael Hall
Next Steps and the Longer View / Laurence A.G. Moss.