Abstract Winter tourism developed an enormous transformative power. The example of Austria’s westernmost province of Vorarlberg is used in this article to highlight the changing role of ski lifts from three different perspectives: Firstly, an analysis of funding schemes for ski lifts reveals...

In the second half of the twentieth century, the car industry became a lightning rod for debates about human contributions to climate change. Widespread motorisation galvanised the green movements of the 1960s and 1970s, regulators increasingly demanded the use of pollution and climate...

The focus of this thesis is on whether or not it is possible to decouple economic growth from the physical growth of the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling of economic...