Amenity development in the Norwegian mountains

摘要: Second home development is increasing rapidly in the Norwegian mountains, reflecting global patterns mountain amenity attractions. Currently around 6000 new second homes are built Norway annually sustaining an economic sector of several billion euros. Environmental and social impacts resulting from this activity only partly identified. owners comprise diverse groups people who different ways become affected by growth infrastructure usage regions. In paper we explore role more basic environmental attitudes or ecocentrism, measured according to New Paradigm scale, on perception impacts, toward development, preferences for facilities activities, long term changes areas. There a distinct relationship between econcentrism development. general, express strong degree orientation consistently less favor further infrastructure, services facilities. Ecocentrism also positively correlated with sensitivity skepticism future changes.