SCAST Sustainable Climate change Adaptation in Skiing Tourism

Mountainous regions in Austria are highly dependent on income from the skiing tourism industry which faces negative impacts from climate change. However, little is known about why some destinations already have a diverse range of climate change adaptation measures in place, while others solely rely on artificial snowmaking. The sustainable climate change adaptation in skiing tourism (SCAST) project aims to assess the status and potential of climate change adaptation in Austria´s skiing tourism destinations. Identifying facilitating as well as hindering factors for sustainable climate change adaptation, its outcomes helps to support climate change adaptation policy in one of Austria´s most climate-vulnerable industries. Using a mixed-methods approach combining primary and secondary quantitative data sources with expert interviews and stakeholder workshops the project will help to make climate change adaptation more tangible, while accounting for hard-to quantify realms of climate change adaptation like social and political interrelations within the host destinations.

Project client: FFG