This Month in Journals: With Impending Climate Change, What’s the Cost of Less Skiing Around Oslo?
Chelsea LittleJanuary 2, 2014
Most studies of how climate change will impact the ski industry focus on downhill skiing, and on losses like tourism dollars and jobs at ski resorts. But what about welfare and happiness? In Oslo, a team of researchers explored how much skiers were willing to pay, in time and money, to reach trails under different weather conditions - and determined that skiing has a very high value, indeed.