There is extensive research documenting the economic consequences of climate change,
yet our understanding of climate impacts on nonmarket activities remains incomplete. Here …

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a major factor that may influence the
recreational use of outdoor environments. Despite awareness of the pervasive effects of …

Outdoor recreation is one of the most popular leisure activities in the United States, yet the
potential impacts of climate change on the nonmarket aspects of this activity are largely …

Background: Physical activity is one of the best disease prevention strategies, and it is
influenced by environmental factors such as temperature. Objectives: We aimed to illuminate …

We use a physically-based water and energy balance model to simulate natural snow
accumulation at 247 winter recreation locations across the continental United States. We …

Identifying the effect of climate on societies is central to understanding historical economic
development, designing modern policies that react to climatic events, and managing future …

It is now widely recognized that climate change is taking place, and in the absence of
serious policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—and in fact, even with it—the planet …

This study examines how exercise responds to plausibly exogenous" price shocks," in the
form of weather conditions. Most notably, we find that within cold temperature ranges, a …

This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs
due to climate change. Using the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature …

Cultural ecosystem services represent nonmaterial benefits people derive from the
environment; these benefits include outdoor recreation opportunities. Changes in climatic …