A Model Assessment on the Technical Climate Change Adaptation Options of the Major Ski Resorts in Bulgaria (original) (raw)

Abstract

Climate change has been and increasingly will be a major threat to the ski tourism industry whose survival is highly dependent on the existence of snow cover of sufficient depth and duration. For this matter, it is now even more usual for the ski resorts to adapt to this issue by various measures at the technical, operational and political levels. Technically speaking, snowmaking has become the most betaken method throughout the industry to combat against the immediate impacts of climate change, while moving the ski areas to higher terrains has been standing out as an another option, wherever available and feasible. In this study, we aim to project the future climatic changes in the snowmaking capacity, in other words; technical snow reliability, and the moving requirements, if any, of the four major ski resorts in Bulgaria for the period of 2016-2030 with respect to the control period of 1991-2005. For this purpose, the past and the future climatic conditions for the technical snow...

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