Daniel Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0999-0963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 106 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 658 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 105 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Future-proofing nature-based tourism in Canada
Global climate change, biodiversity loss, health crises, and economic instability converge to form a polycrisis that challenges the sustainable planning, management, and operations of parks, protected, and conserved areas (PPCAs) for biodiversity conservation and nature-based tourism (NBT). Utilising a horizon scan methodology for the first time in the tourism field, this paper engaged experts across Canada to identify and critically examine the …
Tourist demand and destination development under climate change
Climate change is becoming increasingly impactful on global tourism, including climate patterns and weather extremes, degraded and lost assets (snow, water, biodiversity, beach), business disruption and damage, rises in travel and hospitality cost, as well as deteriorating socio-economic stability. Based on a narrative review of the literature, the paper develops a series of conceptualizations that represent the complexities and implications for …
Evangelism in an Age of Despair
Advancing climate change resilience of the Winter Olympic-Paralympic Games
Transformative Justice in the Shadow of Neoliberalism
Beyond ambition
As the international community gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan at the 29th United Nations climate conference (COP-29) tourism holds a new place of prominence, being included in the host Presidency strategic agenda for the first time. The series of initiatives and high-level meetings culminated in the Baku Declaration on Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism. This is the fifth such declaration by the tourism sector over the past two decades. This paper …
A framework for heat risk action planning for tourism
Climate change is increasing heat risk for tourists worldwide. This paper delineates factors that make tourists particularly vulnerable to extreme heat and argues for their recognition as an at-risk group in heat-prone destinations. A review of community Heat Action Plans reveals a lack of engagement with the tourism sector. To address this gap, a framework for integrating tourism considerations into Heat Action Plans is presented, including a pr…
Climate change and the climate reliability of hosts in the second century of the Winter Olympic Games
In the year the world first surpassed the 1.5°C dangerous global warming threshold set out in the Paris Climate Agreement, the international community celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Olympic Winter Games and considers its future in a warmer world. In the largest study to date, the climate reliability of 93 locations to host Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (OWG and PWG) snow sports is examined. Under a more probable mid-range emission …
Sweden as a last resort for European skiing? An outbound market perspective
Previous work identified Northern Swedish skiing as a beneficiary from worsening climate change, with its relative improvement in snow reliability increasing its attractiveness over areas of the European Alps. This study advances the supply-side discussion of Northern Sweden as a ‘last resort’ with demand-side insights. It examines whether Europe’s major outbound ski market would adapt its destination choice due to climate change impacts on Europ…
Comparing Youth Gang Involvement Near the U.S. Mexico-Border to Other Communities
Variation in risk and protective factors among boy and girl gang involved youth
Purpose This study aims to directly compare risk and protective factors of male and female gang-involved youth. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the 2022 Arizona Youth Survey data. Gang-involved boys and girls are compared through multivariate logistic regression analyses to examine the relationship between risk and protective factors and youth gang membership. Findings Multivariate analyses reveal significant differences in risk and p…
Climate change and tourism geographies
Climate change is no longer in the future, it is an evolving business and policy reality for tourism. Extreme weather events including heavy rainfall and flooding, drought, heat waves, storms, and wildfires have become more frequent and intense, affecting tourism destinations and demand everywhere in the world. Climate change also affects important tourism assets. Snowfall has become less reliable in many winter destinations, while sea level rise…
How climate change is damaging the US ski industry
Since the mid-twentieth century, warming in mountain regions has outpaced the global rate, with important regional implications for snowpacks and the ski industry. Recent climate litigation by communities in the State of Colorado signals the need to assess how observed changes in climate may have damaged the ski industry. This study presents a novel application of the SkiSim2.0 ski operations model at 226 ski areas across 4 US regional ski market…
News media coverage of hurricane events and Caribbean tourism
When making travel decisions, the news is a key source of weather information for tourists, particularly when there is a perceived risk of holiday disruption. Misrepresentation and sensationalist media coverage have been attributed to amplifying perceptions of climatic risk amongst the public. As the most tourism-reliant region in the world, how the media constructs and communicates hurricane events in the Caribbean can influence tourism demand, …
Sustainability of snowmaking as climate change (mal)adaptation
As climate change continues to impact the snowpack in ski areas globally, operators rely increasingly on snowmaking to maintain ski seasons and visitor experience. Increased reliance on machine-made snow has implications for the sustainability of ski tourism. This study provides the first national estimate of water, energy, and CO2 emissions and projected changes under low (RCP2.6), mid (RCP4.5), and high emission (RCP8.5) climate futures by the …
A review of the IPCC Sixth Assessment and implications for tourism development and sectoral climate action
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change represents the state of knowledge of anthropogenic disruption to the climate system, its diverse ecosystem and societal impacts, and the imperative for and challenges of mitigation and adaptation responses. It is foundational for global climate policymaking. This paper examines the place of tourism in AR6 and reviews its key findings for tourism’s future. Overall, …
After Dispensationalism
After Dispensationalism: Reading the Bible for the End of the World, by Brian P. Irwin with Tim Perry. Lexham Press, 2023. 405pp. Hb, USD $29.99. ISBN-13: 9781683596813
John Among the Apocalypses
John Among the Apocalypses: Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the “Apocalyptic” Gospel, by Benjamin E. Reynolds. Oxford University Press, 2020. 254pp. Hb, USD$100. ISBN–13: 9780198784241
Advancing ski tourism transformations to climate change
Canadian ski tourism destinations face increasing climate and carbon risks yet are not currently prepared to adapt to climate change or a decarbonized future. Considering the urgency of climate change and complexity of tourism systems, ski destinations need research identifying stakeholder-held climate and carbon risk perceptions, wider socioeconomic determinants of climate preparedness, and opportunities to accelerate climate decision-making and…
Tourism and the climate crisis
2023 was a landmark year for climate change, with hundreds of climate records broken around the world concurrent with the conclusion of the IPCC Sixth Assessment (AR6) process and the first United Nations (UN) Stocktake on climate action. This special issue builds on the AR6 with three papers on key global tourism and climate change knowledge gaps (tourism and climate policy integration, pathways to deep emission reductions, tourism demand) and n…
Tourism and climate change stocktake
The first climate action stocktake cycle under the Paris Agreement was completed in 2023 to assess global progress on mitigation, adaptation, and climate finance goals. State-driven action needs to be complemented by sectoral efforts, and this paper builds on the first Tourism Stocktake undertaken in 2023 that examined climate action in the tourism sector. First, an expert elicitation survey was conducted to validate and deepen the findings from …
Climate change versus winter sports; can athlete climate activism change the score
Outdoor winter sports sit on the frontlines of climate change, with athletes subject to increasingly unsafe, unfair and non-ideal competition and training conditions as a result. With athletes' livelihoods and the future of winter sports on the line, this research investigates if and how winter athletes use their position as public figures, celebrities and role models to challenge the hegemonic structures in sports and society driving climate cha…
Climate change and the future of the Olympic Winter Games
The International Olympic Committee recognizes the risks climate change pose to the Games and its responsibility to lead on climate action. Winter is changing at the past Olympic Winter Games (OWG) locations and an important perspective to understand climate change risk is that of the athletes who put themselves at risk during these mega-sport events. A survey of 339 elite athletes and coaches from 20 countries was used to define fair and safe co…
Where is God? Christian Faith in the Time of Great Uncertainty , Julián Carrón in conversation with Andrea Tornielli
Where is God? Christian Faith in the Time of Great Uncertainty, Julián Carrón in conversation with Andrea Tornielli. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. 162pp. Hb. CDN$19.95. ISBN-13: 9780228000969
Fundamentalism or Tradition
Fundamentalism or Tradition: Christianity after Secularism, edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demcaopouos. Volume 17 of Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought. Series Editors Aristotle Papanikolaou and Ashley M. Purport. Fordham University Press, 2020. 275pp. Pb, $32.99. ISBN-13: 9780823285785
Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience
Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularly for urban risk management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shaped by policies and discourses from the global North, its applicability for cities of the global South, particularly African cities, has not been sufficiently assessed. Focusing on rights of urban citizens as the object to be made resilient, rather than physical and ecological infrastructures, may help to…
Pandemics, transformations and tourism
Disease outbreaks and pandemics have long played a role in societal and economic change. However, the nature of such change is selective, meaning that it is sometimes minimal and, at other times, and change or transformation may be unexpected, potentially even reinforcing contemporary paradigms. A comprehensive overview of pandemics and their effects is provided. This is used to help contextualise the COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on tourism and …
Tourism and water use
Consumer behaviour and demand response of tourists to climate change
Implications of climate and environmental change for nature-based tourism in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Global tourism vulnerability to climate change
Something in the Air
The Future of Tourism
Tourism is an increasingly significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Emissions growth in the sector is in substantial conflict with global climate policy goals that seek to mitigate climate change through significant emission reductions. This article discusses the role of various tourism sub-sectors in generating emissions, and technical and management options in reducing these. It concludes that given observed and anticipated em…
International tourism and climate change
Tourism is a major global economic sector that is undergoing tremendous growth in emerging economies and is often touted as salient for development and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Tourism is recognized as a highly climate‐sensitive sector, one that is also strongly influenced by environmental and socioeconomic change influenced by climate change, and is also a growing contributor to anthropogenic climate change. This article outl…
Climate change and Quebec's ski industry
The Primacy of Climate Change for Sustainable International Tourism
International tourism is portrayed by many agencies and governments as a significant contributor to sustainable development strategies. The economic impacts of international tourism are undoubtedly substantial; however, they need to be framed within a broader understanding of impacts throughout the tourism system. Emissions from tourism and their contribution to climate change therefore set a potentially major challenge for the sustainability of …
Managing for climate change in the alpine ski sector
Consequences of Climate Policy for International Tourist Arrivals in Developing Countries
One of the major implications of climate change for tourism destinations is the potential impact that mitigation policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the rapidly growing aviation sector could have on travel costs and tourist mobility. Such impact is particularly salient for long-haul destinations. Recently tourism organisations such as the unwto have also expressed concern that aviation sector-focused mitigation policies in we…
Inter-market variability in CO2 emission-intensities in tourism
Seasonal weather sensitivity, temperature thresholds, and climate change impacts for park visitation
Historical park visitation and weather data, taken at the daily time scale from 2000 to 2009 for Pinery Provincial Park in southern Ontario (Canada), were analysed as an objective measure of the weather sensitivity, temperature thresholds, and potential impacts of projected climate change for park visitation. Three seasonal weather-visitation models were constructed using multivariable linear regression (peak, shoulder, off-season). To account fo…
Thermal range of coastal tourism resort microclimates
With considerable evidence demonstrating the intrinsic importance of weather and climate for tourist decision-making, the projected redistribution of climatic resources as a result of climate change is anticipated to have important consequences for temporal and spatial patterns of tourism demand. Some of the world's leading coastal tourism destinations (Mediterranean and Caribbean) have been identified as becoming 'too hot' for tourism. However, …
Climate Change Vulnerability of the Vermont Ski Tourism Industry (USA)
Climate change represents one of the most significant challenges to humanity in the 21st century and is anticipated to have major consequences for the climate‐sensitive winter sports tourism sector. This study examined the vulnerability of Vermont's (US A) 18 ski areas. Under the six climate change scenarios examined, shortened ski seasons and increased snowmaking requirements were projected at all ski areas. Using two broad economic risk criteri…
Is snowmaking climate change maladaptation
Snowmaking has been an integral part of the multi-billion-dollar ski industry in most regional markets for more than 20 years and is one of the most visible and widespread forms of climate adaptation in the tourism sector. Under accelerating climate change, snowmaking is projected to increase at most destinations - some substantially. Snowmaking has come under increasing criticism in recent years and branded by some scholars and ski industry obse…
Ski tourism in a warmer world
Using ski industry response to climatic variability to assess climate change risk
Attitude is everything
Prison gangs have been a topic of interest among scholars, but research on youth prison gangs is limited. Furthermore, violent attitudes and gang involvement have not been addressed extensively, and a better understanding of youth prison gang involvement is needed to effectively inform responses to violence in correctional facilities. This paper fills this research gap through an analysis of violent attitudes as they relate to gang involvement an…
Challenges of tourism in a low‐carbon economy
This article reviews the interrelationships of tourism and climate change from a mitigation perspective. Tourism is an increasingly important part of the global economy that is dependent on the annual movement of billions of travelers, often over large distances. The current contribution of the tourism sector to global climate change is reliably established at approximately 5% of CO 2 emissions, though national tourism economies can be considerab…
A regional comparison of the implications of climate change for the golf industry in Canada
Golf is a recreation industry particularly sensitive to climate, yet the potential implications of climate change for the industry remain largely unexamined. This study presents findings of the first known impact assessment to compare the regional impacts of projected changes in the climate on the golf industry in Canada (or internationally). Empirical relationships between daily rounds played and four weather variables were defined through multi…
Climate change and tourism geographies
Climate change is no longer in the future, it is an evolving business and policy reality for tourism. Extreme weather events including heavy rainfall and flooding, drought, heat waves, storms, and wildfires have become more frequent and intense, affecting tourism destinations and demand everywhere in the world. Climate change also affects important tourism assets. Snowfall has become less reliable in many winter destinations, while sea level rise…
Tourism megatrends
Tourism is affected by social, political, economic, technological and environmental changes at all scales. Population growth, redistribution of wealth, geopolitical changes and conflicts, rising fuel costs, climate change and its consequences, new technologies and work patterns, and all forms of social fashion influence who wants to travel where, for how long, to do what, and at what prices. Here, we examine six large-scale exogenous trends for t…
A Profile of Emigrants from South Africa
Towards the creation of a health information system for cancer in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Double Trouble
Dianne Scott, Catherine Oelofse, Caradee Guy, Double Trouble: Environmental Injustice in South Durban, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 52, Sustainable Development: An Oxymoron? (2002), pp. 50-57
Climate change and the skiing industry in southern Ontario (Canada)
CR Climate Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials CR 23:171-181 (2003) - doi:10.3354/cr023171 Climate change and the skiing industry in southern Ontario (Canada): exploring the importance of snowmaking as a technical adaptation Daniel Scott1,*, Geoff McBoyle2, Brian Mills1 1Adaptation and Impacts Research Group, Environment Canada…
Innovations to reduce residential energy use and carbon emissions
Research in energy sustainability is gaining renewed priority because of the growing importance of climate‐change issues and the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by many countries. Increased energy efficiency and substitution of less carbon‐intensive fuels are proposed as the principal means to reduce greenhouse‐gas (GHG) emissions and associated climate change. The residential sector is an important area for improvement, as it accounts for 22 …
Climate change and the distribution of climatic resources for tourism in North America
Tourism is a major sector of the global economy, and it is strongly influenced by climate. At some travel destinations, climate represents the natural resource on which the tourism industry is predicated. Global climate change has the potential to alter the distribution of climate assets among tourism destinations, with implications for tourism seasonality, demand and travel patterns. Changes in the length and quality of the tourism season have c…
Climate change, biodiversity conservation and protected area planning in Canada
For more than a decade, climate change has been identified as an important emerging issue for protected areas. Utilising outputs from two equilibrium global vegetation models (GVMs) forced with six climate‐change scenarios, this study assessed potential terrestrial biome‐type change in Canada's protected area network (2,979 national parks, national wildlife areas, migratory bird sanctuaries, Ramsar sites, ecological reserves, wilderness wildlife …
Climate change and Quebec's ski industry
Bricks and an Evolving Industrial Landscape
Ongoing archaeological research at Scenic Hudson’s West Point Foundry Preserve in Cold Spring, New York, has permitted systematic collection of data related to fire and common brick brands that appear throughout the foundry’s campus. Archaeologists have begun to correlate the varied ceramic building material with periods in the evolution of this 19th-century industrial landscape. Hudson River Valley brick making provides an interesting comparison…
The Impact of Climate Change on Golf Participation in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
Golf is identified as a large recreation industry that is particularly sensitive to weather and climate, yet research assessing the direct relationship between them is extremely limited. Consequently, the potential implications of climate change for the industry remain largely unexamined. This case study presents findings of an analysis of the influence of weather conditions on the number of rounds played at a golf course in the Greater Toronto A…
Climate change adaptation in the ski industry
Climate Change Vulnerability of the Vermont Ski Tourism Industry (USA)
Climate change represents one of the most significant challenges to humanity in the 21st century and is anticipated to have major consequences for the climate‐sensitive winter sports tourism sector. This study examined the vulnerability of Vermont's (US A) 18 ski areas. Under the six climate change scenarios examined, shortened ski seasons and increased snowmaking requirements were projected at all ski areas. Using two broad economic risk criteri…
Implications of climate and environmental change for nature-based tourism in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
A regional comparison of the implications of climate change for the golf industry in Canada
Golf is a recreation industry particularly sensitive to climate, yet the potential implications of climate change for the industry remain largely unexamined. This study presents findings of the first known impact assessment to compare the regional impacts of projected changes in the climate on the golf industry in Canada (or internationally). Empirical relationships between daily rounds played and four weather variables were defined through multi…
A second generation climate index for tourism (CIT)
Climate Change and Tourism
(2008). Climate Change and Tourism: Time for Critical Reflection. Tourism Recreation Research: Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 356-360
Consequences of Climate Policy for International Tourist Arrivals in Developing Countries
One of the major implications of climate change for tourism destinations is the potential impact that mitigation policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the rapidly growing aviation sector could have on travel costs and tourist mobility. Such impact is particularly salient for long-haul destinations. Recently tourism organisations such as the unwto have also expressed concern that aviation sector-focused mitigation policies in we…
Something in the Air
The carbon cost of polar bear viewing tourism in Churchill, Canada
This paper examines the paradoxical issues surrounding long-distance tourism to view polar bears, a form of tourism which is disproportionately (on a per capita basis) responsible for greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions that are negatively affecting survival chances of the species. It also notes that the phenomenon of “last chance tourism” is influencing more tourists to visit the region. The paper describes and explains the evidence that climate ch…
Can tourism deliver its “aspirational” greenhouse gas emission reduction targets?
This review paper examines the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets postulated by a range of organizations seeking to reduce the consequences of global climate change and how, or if, the global tourism sector can achieve its share of those targets. It takes both existing estimates of current tourism GHG emissions and emissions projected in a business-as-usual scenario through to 2035 and contrasts them with the “aspirational” emission …
Adapting to climate change and climate policy
This introductory paper discusses tourism's role in relation to climate change mitigation and adaptation, at a time when climate change is at the forefront of many political discussions, including the 2009 Climate Summit in Copenhagen, and many business decisions. The development of tourism research in response to climate change in the past 25 years is outlined and limitations are identified. The paper also argues that while growing engagement wi…
The Future of Tourism
Tourism is an increasingly significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Emissions growth in the sector is in substantial conflict with global climate policy goals that seek to mitigate climate change through significant emission reductions. This article discusses the role of various tourism sub-sectors in generating emissions, and technical and management options in reducing these. It concludes that given observed and anticipated em…
Why sustainable tourism must address climate change
This opinion piece examines Weaver's thesis that sustainable tourism's current expanding engagement with climate change may not necessarily be conducive to the interests of tourism sustainability. It critically examines and responds to the seven interrelated issues presented by Weaver to support that opinion. This paper dispels some common climate science myths that continue to hamper scientific progress and obfuscate debate over climate change p…
Spirituality and social work
by Beth R. Crisp, Farnham, UK and Burlington VT, Ashgate Publishing, 2010, 169 pp., $99.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780754677345 It is refreshing to find a book that takes up matters of spirituality in so
Forests, climate change and tourism
Forests are an important store of carbon within the global carbon cycle and increasingly play a role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. The review illustrates that the cultural, economic and environmental services of forests that are utilized for tourism and recreation are being affected by climate change. In addition to the changes to the distribution and composition of forests as a result of climate change, forest tourism is also affe…
Geography (68 works) · Climate change (64 works) · Tourism (59 works) · Political science (54 works) · Economics (49 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (44 works) · Environmental resource management (40 works) · Business (35 works) · Ecology (30 works) · Natural resource economics (25 works)