Die another day: explanations based on qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) for the survival and non-survival of isolated ski lifts in Switzerland

Q2 Social Sciences

Geographica Helvetica Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI:10.5194/gh-79-85-2024

Steve Schlegel, Christoph Schuck

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Abstract

Abstract. In the form of an explorative empirical study, this paper deals with the reasons for the survival and demise of isolated Swiss ski lifts. For the first time, all isolated lifts documented in Switzerland have been recorded and coded according to a total of six conditions. Using a set-theoretical research method in the form of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), the study aims to identify the necessary conditions and configurations of sufficient conditions explaining (non-)survival. It transpires that closed isolated lifts tend to be outdated and have no technical snowmaking facilities. Moreover, it has become evident that the simultaneous occurrence of the lack of lift facility replacement, lack of technical snowmaking and high ski area competition has caused the closure of most isolated lifts. Low natural snow depth and low elevation difference, conversely, have not had a measurable impact. The causes for the survival of isolated lifts, by contrast, are extremely heterogeneous.

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改天再来：基于定性比较分析 (QCA) 对瑞士孤立滑雪索道存活与否的解释

摘要本文以探索性实证研究的形式，探讨了瑞士孤立滑雪索道生存和消亡的原因。本文首次记录了瑞士所有有据可查的孤立式滑雪索道，并根据六种情况进行了编码。该研究采用定性比较分析（QCA）形式的集合理论研究方法，旨在确定解释（非）生存的必要条件和充分条件组合。研究发现，关闭的孤立式索道往往已经过时，而且没有造雪技术设施。此外，很明显，索道设施缺乏更新、缺乏造雪技术以及滑雪场竞争激烈等因素同时存在，导致了大多数独立索道的关闭。相反，天然积雪深度低和海拔差异小并没有产生明显的影响。相比之下，孤立式索道生存的原因却极为不同。

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Geographica Helvetica Social Sciences-Anthropology

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1.90

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审稿时长

53 weeks

期刊介绍： Geographica Helvetica, the Swiss journal of geography, publishes contributions in all fields of geography as well as in related neighbouring disciplines. It is a multi-lingual journal, accepting articles in the three main Swiss languages, German, French, and Italian, as well as in English. It invites theoretical as well as empirical contributions. The journal welcomes contributions that specifically deal with empirical questions relating to Switzerland. The agenda of Geographica Helvetica is related to the specificity of Swiss geography as a meeting ground for different geographical traditions and languages (German, French, Italian and, more recently, a type of transnational, mainly English-speaking geography). The journal aims to become an ideal platform for the development of an informed, creative, and truly cosmopolitan geography. The journal will therefore provide space for cross-border theoretical debates around major thinkers – past and present – and the circulation of geographical ideas and concepts across Europe and beyond. The journal seeks to be a platform of debate also through innovative publication formats in its section "Interfaces", which publishes shorter interventions: reflection pieces on major thinkers as well as position papers (see manuscript types). Geographica Helvetica is promoted and supported by the following institutions: Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), Geographic and Ethnological Society of Zurich/Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich (GEGZ), and Swiss Association of Geography/Association Suisse de Géographie (ASG).