Mapping Alpine Landscape Values and Related Threats as Perceived by Tourists

Mapping Landscape Features & Values in Coastal Australia

Places encompass the physical setting, as well as human experience and interpretation. Although sense of place definition nominally includes the physical environment, most research has emphasized the social construction of sense of place and neglect the important contribution of the physical environment to place meanings and attachment. On the other side, theoretical and technological developme...

Empirical investigation of tourists' perceived psychic distance of Iran as a tourism destination

The aim of the current study was to investigate the perceived psychic distance of potentialtourists in relation to Iran as a tourism destination. The concept of psychic distance refersto perceived similarities/ differences between specific destination and tourist's homecountry. The members of couch-surfing virtual community participated in this study. Thestatistical data were collected by conve...

Terrorism's Fear : Perceived Personal and National Threats

Terrorism represents an unexpected and unwanted change which challenges one’s social identity. We carried out a study to explore the demographic variables’ role on the perception of personal and national threat, and to investigate the effects of perceived terrorist threat on people’s ways of life, moods, opinions and hopes. 313 residents of Palermo (Italy) were interviewed. The results pointed ...

Rock glaciers in crystalline catchments: Hidden permafrost‐related threats to alpine headwater lakes

A global warming-induced transition from glacial to periglacial processes has been identified in mountainous regions around the world. Degrading permafrost in pristine periglacial environments can produce acid rock drainage (ARD) and cause severe ecological damage in areas underlain by sulfide-bearing bedrock. Limnological and paleolimnological approaches were used to assess and compare ARDs ge...

Virus and Related Threats