A virtual geobibliography of polar tourism and climate change

O. Cenk Demiroglu*, Dorothee Bohn, Halvor Dannevig, C. Michael Hall, Christy Hehir, Linda Lundmark, Robert O. Nilsson, Julia Olsen, Kaarina Tervo-Kankare, Marisol Vereda, Johannes Welling

*Fyrsti höfundur fyrir þetta verk

Rannsóknarafurð: Framlag til fræðitímaritsGreinritrýni

2 Niðurhal (Pure)

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The polar regions are increasingly at the center of attention as the hot spots of climate crisis as well as tourism development. The recent IPCC reports highlight several climate change risks for the rather carbon-intensive and weather-based/dependent polar tourism industry in the Arctic and the Antarctic. This study presents the scholarly state-of-knowledge on tourism and climate change in the polar regions with a literature survey extending beyond the Anglophone publications. As a supporting tool, we provide a live web GIS application based on the geographical coverages of the publications and filterable by various spatial, thematic and bibliographical attributes. The final list of 137 publications indicates that, regionally, the Arctic has been covered more than the Antarctic, whilst an uneven distribution within the Arctic also exists. In terms of the climate change risks themes, climate risk research, i.e. impact and adaptation studies, strongly outnumbers the carbon risk studies especially in the Arctic context, and, despite a balance between the two main risk themes, climate risk research in the Antarctic proves itself outdated. Accordingly, the review ends with a research agenda based on these spatial and thematic gaps and their detailed breakdowns.

Upprunalegt tungumálEnska
Síður (frá-til)1948-1964
Síðufjöldi17
FræðitímaritJournal of Sustainable Tourism
Bindi32
Númer tölublaðs9
DOI
ÚtgáfustaðaÚtgefið - 2024

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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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