The amenity migrants—seeking and sustaining mountains and their cultures

This book describes contemporary developments and change in mountain environments. Whilst there is literature on mountain tourism and second-home tourism, this is maybe the first book to take a holistic view of the large and complex phenomenon of amenity migration in mountains. With increasing welfare, recent decades have sen new migration paterns in many parts of the world, as people seek new places to live that have desireable natural and social conditions