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The pilot area of Auronzo di Cadore (Belluno) - Università Ca

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Fig. 22<br />

Results <strong>of</strong> strategies’<br />

evaluation with<br />

the ClimAlpTour e-tool<br />

6.1.1 / Results <strong>of</strong> strategies’ assessments and <strong>di</strong>scussion on outcomes<br />

<strong>The</strong> insertion <strong>of</strong> in<strong>di</strong>vidual weights into the ClimAlpTour e-tool permitted<br />

us to rank the strategies accor<strong>di</strong>ng to collective judgements for the three<br />

chosen climate scenarios (Figure 22) and view the result in histogram- and<br />

sustainability-triangle shapes (Figure 23; Figure 24). This was highly beneficial<br />

for the stakeholders, as they could easily get a feeling <strong>of</strong> what strategy<br />

dominated and why.<br />

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Figure 23 illustrates the histograms, whose<br />

height resulted from the strategies’ evaluation.<br />

Each represents one strategy, whilst the <strong>di</strong>fferent<br />

colours represent how the various in<strong>di</strong>cators<br />

contribute to the final outcome. Similarly, Figure<br />

24 exemplifies the sustainability chart <strong>of</strong> the<br />

four strategies. <strong>The</strong> inner triangle is the ideal<br />

<strong>area</strong>, in which a strategy should be spotted, as<br />

a consequence <strong>of</strong> the good balance among the<br />

environmental, the social and the economic <strong>di</strong>mensions.<br />

<strong>The</strong> results represented here partly<br />

depend on the structure <strong>of</strong> the selected evaluative<br />

criteria, which reflect primarily the economic<br />

and environmental issues rather than<br />

the social one, in accordance with the stakeholders’<br />

priorities. Given the current in<strong>di</strong>cator<br />

structure, the second-best choice (ALTSKI) appears<br />

to be slightly more sustainable than the<br />

preferred one (BYDSNW).<br />

Overall, the preferred strategy resulted to be BYDSNW for the three climate<br />

scenarios. As shown in Figure 23, this development strategy seems more<br />

suited for <strong>Auronzo</strong> <strong>di</strong> <strong><strong>Ca</strong>dore</strong>, compared to the others, due to several factors:<br />

1. long term sustainability; 2. synergies with the summer tourism; 3.<br />

capacity <strong>of</strong> incrementing the arrivals and tourist’s expen<strong>di</strong>tures.<br />

ALTSKI is robustly performing as the second-best option, showing higher<br />

appropriateness in the “current” and “B1” climate scenario. A more extreme<br />

future with considerable less snow precipitations may significantly<br />

penalize this strategy. A SKINT strategy results to be particularly deficient<br />

in terms <strong>of</strong> investment costs and environmental impacts, but it would be<br />

desirable in terms <strong>of</strong> creation <strong>of</strong> job opportunities, increase <strong>of</strong> tourists’ expen<strong>di</strong>ture<br />

and containment <strong>of</strong> seasonality.<br />

This result <strong>di</strong>d not seem to surprise the majority <strong>of</strong> participants, notwithstan<strong>di</strong>ng<br />

the fact that during the first workshop the participants attributed<br />

the highest importance, in terms <strong>of</strong> influence in the choice <strong>of</strong> an alpine<br />

destination, to snow-related activities (see Table 11). Hence, one may con-

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