Environmental aspects of skiing.The conflicts of nature prevention and skiing in Czech Republic.

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Authors	POKORNÝ Jan
Year of publication	2005
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Proceedings of Mendelnet2005 - Contemporary state and development trends of forests in cultuiral lanbdscape
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Field	Sociology, demography
Keywords	skiing; ski-areals; environment; nature prevention; conflicts; discussion.
Description	The study observes conflicts between nature prevention and skiing industry in Czech Republic. The geomorphologic and weather conditions appropriate for skiing are on the same way unique for their natural ecosystems. Due the pressure of society, lobbyists, NGOs and other participants involved in discussions are some of the projects already blocked and other still not resolved.
Related projects:	Současný stav a trendy vývoje lesů v kulturní krajině