Amenity migration to mountain regions: Current knowledge and strategic construct for sustainable management

Amenity migration has become an important force for change in non-metropolitan high amenity places around the world. Here the focus is on these places in mountain regions that attract permanent and part-time residents because of their comparatively rich concentrations of Earth's remaining natural environment and differentiated culture. Drawing on their own and others' research and related community development experience, amenity migration, and its dependent economic migration, is identified and their socio-cultural, economic and biophysical effects are described. Although this migration has..