Mountains are highly sensitive to climate change. Their elevated areas provide essential
ecosystem services both for the surrounding mountainous regions and particularly for …

Purpose This study aims to investigate low-carbon footprint travel choices, considering both
destination attributes and climate change perceptions, and examine the impacts of nudging …

This paper will review the emergence and adoption of decision heuristics as a conceptual
framework within the avalanche research and education community and demonstrate how …

Backcountry winter recreation accidents and deaths due to avalanches have grown
considerably in recent decades. To better understand how individuals make decisions in …

Forests provide a variety of ecosystem goods and services to society, which often have the
typical characteristics of a public good: non-excludability and non-rivalry. One of these …

The subject of this special issue,“Risk in tourism and outdoor recreation” is of increasing
relevance. Over the last decades, the popularity of outdoor recreation and nature-based …

Protection from natural hazards is the most important function of mountain forests from an
ecological, economic and social point of view. This assertion has been widely debated in …

When making decisions under risk and uncertainty, people often rely on heuristics. A
heuristic is a simple decision rule that allows one to make judgments without integrating all …

Backcountry recreationists account for a high percentage of avalanche fatalities, but the total
number of recreationists and relative percentage of different recreation types are unknown …

The present study investigated how information about situational characteristics typically
encountered by backcountry recreationists influenced their perceived likelihood of skiing …