Environmental History, The History of Tourism in the Mountains and the Construction of New Knowledge: A Study of the Architecture of Winter Sports Resorts in the French-Italian Alps

Environmental history is a rapidly developing field of study. In keeping with the ecological, energy and health issues that affect contemporary societies, it is important to understand the past by examining the interactions between human and natural factors. This interest is particularly evident in...

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Autor principal:	Caterina Franco
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Publicado:	Institut de Géographie Alpine 2021
Materias:	environmental history tourist infrastructure ski resorts 20th-century Alpine architecture French-Italian Alps Geography. Anthropology. Recreation G Physical geography GB3-5030
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a9c6832196b141e8a163a2b70897ba942021-12-02T10:48:55ZEnvironmental History, The History of Tourism in the Mountains and the Construction of New Knowledge: A Study of the Architecture of Winter Sports Resorts in the French-Italian Alps0035-11211760-7426https://doaj.org/article/a9c6832196b141e8a163a2b70897ba942021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/rga/9399https://doaj.org/toc/0035-1121https://doaj.org/toc/1760-7426Environmental history is a rapidly developing field of study. In keeping with the ecological, energy and health issues that affect contemporary societies, it is important to understand the past by examining the interactions between human and natural factors. This interest is particularly evident in work on the Alps and mountains in general. Our contribution relates and adds to studies focused on the history of tourism in the Alps and assesses the capacity of environmental history to produce a renewed knowledge. Moreover, it investigates the specificity of the Alps and the mountains as a privileged field of study for environmental history. After outlining recent scientific output from around the world based on environmental history, we present the results obtained through a research experiment on the history of winter sports resorts in the French-Italian Alps. Understanding the relationships between the evolution of the projects and the natural and historical components of the sites where they are located and extending the spatial and temporal frameworks of the analyses and the use of multiple sources will clarify how tourism develops in high-altitude areas. Our work invites researchers to move beyond the image of infrastructure built “ex nihilo” or on so-called “virgin” sites and a narrative limited to the period of the “Trente Glorieuses” to reveal the dynamics of how a territory transforms over time.Caterina FrancoInstitut de Géographie Alpinearticleenvironmental historytourist infrastructureski resorts20th-century Alpine architectureFrench-Italian AlpsGeography. Anthropology. RecreationGPhysical geographyGB3-5030ENFRRevue de Géographie Alpine (2021)
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topic	environmental history tourist infrastructure ski resorts 20th-century Alpine architecture French-Italian Alps Geography. Anthropology. Recreation G Physical geography GB3-5030
spellingShingle	environmental history tourist infrastructure ski resorts 20th-century Alpine architecture French-Italian Alps Geography. Anthropology. Recreation G Physical geography GB3-5030 Caterina Franco Environmental History, The History of Tourism in the Mountains and the Construction of New Knowledge: A Study of the Architecture of Winter Sports Resorts in the French-Italian Alps
description	Environmental history is a rapidly developing field of study. In keeping with the ecological, energy and health issues that affect contemporary societies, it is important to understand the past by examining the interactions between human and natural factors. This interest is particularly evident in work on the Alps and mountains in general. Our contribution relates and adds to studies focused on the history of tourism in the Alps and assesses the capacity of environmental history to produce a renewed knowledge. Moreover, it investigates the specificity of the Alps and the mountains as a privileged field of study for environmental history. After outlining recent scientific output from around the world based on environmental history, we present the results obtained through a research experiment on the history of winter sports resorts in the French-Italian Alps. Understanding the relationships between the evolution of the projects and the natural and historical components of the sites where they are located and extending the spatial and temporal frameworks of the analyses and the use of multiple sources will clarify how tourism develops in high-altitude areas. Our work invites researchers to move beyond the image of infrastructure built “ex nihilo” or on so-called “virgin” sites and a narrative limited to the period of the “Trente Glorieuses” to reveal the dynamics of how a territory transforms over time.
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title	Environmental History, The History of Tourism in the Mountains and the Construction of New Knowledge: A Study of the Architecture of Winter Sports Resorts in the French-Italian Alps
title_short	Environmental History, The History of Tourism in the Mountains and the Construction of New Knowledge: A Study of the Architecture of Winter Sports Resorts in the French-Italian Alps
title_full	Environmental History, The History of Tourism in the Mountains and the Construction of New Knowledge: A Study of the Architecture of Winter Sports Resorts in the French-Italian Alps
title_fullStr	Environmental History, The History of Tourism in the Mountains and the Construction of New Knowledge: A Study of the Architecture of Winter Sports Resorts in the French-Italian Alps
title_full_unstemmed	Environmental History, The History of Tourism in the Mountains and the Construction of New Knowledge: A Study of the Architecture of Winter Sports Resorts in the French-Italian Alps
title_sort	environmental history, the history of tourism in the mountains and the construction of new knowledge: a study of the architecture of winter sports resorts in the french-italian alps
publisher	Institut de Géographie Alpine
publishDate	2021
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Environmental History, The History of Tourism in the Mountains and the Construction of New Knowledge: A Study of the Architecture of Winter Sports Resorts in the French-Italian Alps

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