Communicating Risk in Glacier Tourism: A Case Study of the Svínafellsheiði Fracture in Iceland
Every day in early summer 2018, an estimated 1000 tourists went on guided tours of Svínafellsjökull, an outlet glacier in southeast Iceland. However, this changed on 22 June 2018, when a warning was issued against glacial travel due to the risk of a large landslide caused by a fracture in the surrou...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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International Mountain Society
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Mountain Research and Development |
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| Online Access: | https://bioone.org/doi/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-21-00051.1 |