The amenity migrants : seeking and sustaining mountains and their cultures / / edited by Laurence A.G. Moss

• Pubblicazione: Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI Pub., c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.8
• Soggetto topico: Amenity migration; Amenity migration - Environmental aspects; Recreation areas - Environmental aspects; Mountains; Mountain ecology; Human ecology; Environmental degradation
• Altri autori: MossLaurence A. G
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""PART I. THE AMENITY MIGRANTS""; ""Chapter 1. The Amenity Migrants: Ecological Challenge to Contemporary Shangri-La""; ""Chapter 2. The Spiritual Dimension of Moving to the Mountains""; ""Chapter 3. Guiding Back from the Precipice: Leveraging the Power of Recreational Users to Protect Mountain Environments""; ""PART II. AMENITY MIGRANTS IN THE AMERICAS""; ""Chapter 4. Geographic Perspective on Amenity Migration across the USA: National-, Regional- and Local-scale Analysis"" ; ""Chapter 5. Santa Fe, a Fading Dream: 1986 Profile and 2005 Postscript""""Chapter 6. Too Much Love?: the Environmental and Community Impacts of Amenity Migrants on Jackson Hole, Wyoming""; ""Chapter 7. Gateway to Glacier: Will Amenity Migrants in North-western Montana Lead the Way for Amenity Conservation?""; ""Chapter 8. Alberta's Amenities Rush""; ""Chapter 9. Finding a Pad in Paradise: Amenity Migration Effects on Whistler, British Columbia""; ""Chapter 10. Cultural Survival and Environmental Degradation in the Mountains of the Secwepemc"" ; ""Chapter 11. Planning for Amenity Migration in Communities of the British Columbia Hinterland""""Chapter 12. A Brief History of Amenity Migration in the Adirondack Mountains""; ""Chapter 13. Cultural and Environmental Amenities in Peri-urban Change: the Case of San Antonio de Escaz; Costa Rica""; ""Chapter 14. Amenity Migration in the Patagonian Mountain Community of San Martin de los Andes, Neuquen, Argentina""; ""PART III. AMENITY MIGRANTS IN EUROPE""; ""Chapter 15. The Specifics of Amenity Migration in the European Alps"" ; ""Chapter 16. Second Homes, Work Commuting and Amenity Migrants in Norway's Mountain Areas""""Chapter 17. Amenity Migration and Tourism Development in the Terna Mountains, Sweden""; ""PART IV. AMENITY MIGRANTS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC""; ""Chapter 18. A Bioregion in Jeopardy: the Strategic Challenge of Amenity Migration in Baguio, The Philippines""; ""Chapter 19. Green Change: Inland Amenity Migration in Australia""; ""Chapter 20. Amenity Migration in the South Island of New Zealand: Contestation for Land and Landscape in Central Otago""; ""PART V: THE FUTURE"" ; ""Chapter 21. Next Steps and the Longer View""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: Places with perceived high environmental quality and distinctive culture are globally attracting amenity migrants. Today this societal driving force is particularly manifest in mountain areas, and while beneficial for both the newcomers and locals, is also threatening highland ecologies and their human communities. This book describes and analyses the challenges and opportunities of amenity migration and its management, and offers related recommendations. The books chapters cover the subject through case studies at international, regional and local levels, along with overarching themes such as
• Titolo autorizzato: The amenity migrants
• ISBN: 1-280-73621-6; 9786610736218; 1-84593-036-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910446328603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II