This chapter analyses the role of risk and danger in outdoor recreation with a special focus on winter tourism, and then presents recent findings on accidents and injuries when practising winter sport activities. Finally, this chapter provides recommendations to reduce the number of accidents and...

This chapter examines the winter tourism offers at the Tatra National Park in Poland as well as the management challenges, including zoning of winter recreation, visitor monitoring, user conflicts, risk and safety, and cooperation for nature conservation.

This chapter examines climate change perceptions in the context of nature-based tourism in the case study area of western Maine, USA. It identifies the perceptions of risks and challenges associated with changes in climate, the variables that influence perceptions of risk, and the behavioural...