Adapting to climate change: the case of snow-based tourism in Afriski, Lesotho

Hoogendoorn, Gijsbert; Stockigt, Lara; Saarinen, Jarkko; Fitchett, Jennifer M.

doi:10.1080/19376812.2020.1773878

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“…Many studies covering climate change issues have been conducted in Australia (Usman et al, 2021), Canada (Greaves, 2021), the United States (Ballew et al, 2019) and South Africa (Hoogendoorn et al, 2021), but India still needs attention. This paper examines climate change anxiety in the form of ATR and its effect on the individual's behaviour.…”

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“…Many studies covering climate change issues have been conducted in Australia (Usman et al, 2021), Canada (Greaves, 2021), the United States (Ballew et al, 2019) and South Africa (Hoogendoorn et al, 2021) The protestors possess scientific awareness of cognitive knowledge; they have positive sentiments of hope as opposed to negative emotions of anxiety and fear; they also display lower level activities like recycling to influence higher level activities such as reducing energy and water consumption (Jaeger & Upadhyay, 2020). Overall, the existing literature draws a comprehensive picture of ATR and CFB linkage.…”

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How does anticipatory trauma reaction and climate‐friendly behaviour make an affect at the individual level? The role of social norms and self‐efficacy

2023

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Climate change is unavoidable and requires serious consideration at both the organizational and individual levels. Climate change mitigation, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions globally and climate financing for developing countries and so forth are key issues and challenges toward environmental sustainability. This paper aims to develop a framework for climate‐friendly behaviour (CFB) for environmental sustainability from an individual perspective. The present study recognizes the role of social norms and self‐efficacy in developing positive behaviour toward environmental sustainability. On the proposed integrated CFB framework of value‐belief‐norms (VBN) and self‐efficacy theory, this study is a unique conceptual‐empirical scholarly development, examining individual‐level contemplation toward climate‐supportive policy measures. This research evaluates the relationship between anticipatory trauma reaction (ATR) and CFB in the presence of perceived social efficacy (PSE) and perceived social norms (PSN) as moderators and mediators. We have used the survey method to examine a sample of 238 respondents and assess the structural equation modelling analysis and PLS predictions using SmartPLS software. The findings indicate that climate change‐related anxiety‐driven ATR facilitates CFB among individuals. Next, the study adds value to VBN theory as the results also suggest that PSN improve ATR's positive impact on CFB. This work further expands the horizon of self‐efficacy theory by arguing that PSE transmits the positive effect of ATR on CFB. The study delivers many worthy theoretical and practical contributions toward climate change policies and environmental sustainability implications.

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“…Many studies covering climate change issues have been conducted in Australia (Usman et al, 2021), Canada (Greaves, 2021), the United States (Ballew et al, 2019) and South Africa (Hoogendoorn et al, 2021), but India still needs attention. This paper examines climate change anxiety in the form of ATR and its effect on the individual's behaviour.…”

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“…Many studies covering climate change issues have been conducted in Australia (Usman et al, 2021), Canada (Greaves, 2021), the United States (Ballew et al, 2019) and South Africa (Hoogendoorn et al, 2021) The protestors possess scientific awareness of cognitive knowledge; they have positive sentiments of hope as opposed to negative emotions of anxiety and fear; they also display lower level activities like recycling to influence higher level activities such as reducing energy and water consumption (Jaeger & Upadhyay, 2020). Overall, the existing literature draws a comprehensive picture of ATR and CFB linkage.…”

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How does anticipatory trauma reaction and climate‐friendly behaviour make an affect at the individual level? The role of social norms and self‐efficacy

2023

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“…The Lesotho Highlands, primarily located in Lesotho and marginal parts of South Africa (and which includes a large portion of the World Heritage, transfrontier Maloti-Drakensberg Park), are some of the highest elevated land in Africa (maximum elevation = 3,482 m.a.s.l.) which maintain a particularly cooler climate against the backdrop of the broader, temperate southern African region (Norström et al, 2018;Hoogendoorn et al, 2020;Figure 1A). Although it is part of the Drakensberg mountain range and the Great Escarpment, which stretches from the Eastern Cape to Limpopo, the Lesotho Highlands are isolated by being ~1,500 m higher due to Jurassic vulcanism which led to the extra basaltic cover giving the highland its pronounced elevation (see Eriksson, 1981;Smith et al, 1993).…”

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Against the Flow: The Colonisation of the Lesotho Highlands by Freshwater Limpets

Sands

Riedel

Gummersbach

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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To date, limited research has taken place on the evolutionary history of biodiversity in the high-altitude zones of southern Africa, particularly the Lesotho Highlands. The few studies that do exist point to similar high-altitude zones being either prolific museums (i.e., refugia and cradles) for cold-evolved species or sinks for temperate species post the Last Glacial Maximum, yet the role this zone has played for freshwater biodiversity is unknown for almost all freshwater taxa. In this study, we address this lack of knowledge by looking at the phylogeography of the freshwater limpet genus, Burnupia, across its southern and eastern African range, but particularly focusing on the Lesotho Highlands. We used COI data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the genus, quantify phylogenetic species diversity, test both isolation by distance (IBD) and by elevation (IBE) and model ancestral area estimation “in” and “out” of the Highlands to determine: 1) The diversity and endemicity of Burnupia spp. in the Highlands in comparison to the broader southern African region and 2) when did the colonisation of the Highlands happen. Our results showed that at least two of the nine southern African phylogenetic species delimited occur in the Highlands (which appears average for the geographical extent of this area in comparison to the broader southern African region) and that the genus has been present in the Lesotho Highlands for somewhere between 1.38–0.23 million years. However, we found the endemicity of at least one of the two Highland species, supported by weak but significant IBD and IBE in Burnupia. Therefore we favour the notion that the Highlands are likely an important haven for cold-evolved species. As our results also generated a lot of data useful for Burnupia systematics, we discuss some taxonomic implications of our findings.

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“…A shift in seasons resulting from climate change may also impact tourism peak seasons as envisaged in the case of Zambia (Dube & Nhamo, 2016a) and Lesotho (Hoogendoorn et al, 2021). Furthermore, a rise in sea levels caused by climate change is likely to lead to submergence of some beaches in some coastal towns of South Africa and Kenya (Fitchett, Grant, et al, 2016;Njoronge, 2015a).…”

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Climate Change, Tourism, and Community Development: Perceptions of Maun Residents, Botswana

Hambira¹,

Saarinen²,

Atlhopheng³

et al. 2021

Tourism Review International

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Tourism is a key economic sector and tool for community development in most developing countries. However, climate change remains one of the major threats to this development. This is especially so for countries such as Botswana whose tourism industry is largely nature based making it vulnerable to the effects of environmental change. Consequently, communities who rely on tourism to some extent are also vulnerable to global climate change and its local effects. The purpose of this paper is to examine community perceptions with regards to the tourism-climate change nexus in Maun, a key tourism hub in Botswana and dependent on the tourism economy. Data collection was done by means of a household survey. Interestingly, the results showed that most local people do not perceive tourism highly, as a source of income. In practice, they depended on other forms of livelihoods like formal employment and farming. Furthermore, even though they have noted some changes in the environment and climate, they generally did not know the resultant impacts despite acknowledging that the tourism industry is bound to be affected. The low awareness levels may lead to inaction, and hence a clarion call to decision makers to develop information and adaptation strategies for communities that host tourist attractions to ensure resilience to anticipated effects of global climate change.

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Adapting to climate change: the case of snow-based tourism in Afriski, Lesotho

Cited by 16 publications

References 46 publications

How does anticipatory trauma reaction and climate‐friendly behaviour make an affect at the individual level? The role of social norms and self‐efficacy

How does anticipatory trauma reaction and climate‐friendly behaviour make an affect at the individual level? The role of social norms and self‐efficacy

Against the Flow: The Colonisation of the Lesotho Highlands by Freshwater Limpets

Climate Change, Tourism, and Community Development: Perceptions of Maun Residents, Botswana

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