La obra presenta las comunicaciones al VIII congreso Internacional AEC (Salamanca, 2012) distribuidas en tres ponencias: I: Escenarios y modelos climáticos (22 comunicaciones) II: Variabilidad climática y extremos (45 comunicaciones) III: Impactos climáticos (30 comunicaciones)

The tourism-recreation sector is increasingly recognized as a climate-sensitive economic sector, with both supply- (tourism operators, destination communities) and demand-side stakeholders (tourists) directly affected by climate and its indirect influence on a wide range of environmental resources t

Differential temperature changes with altitude can shed light on the relative importance of natural versus anthropogenic climatic change.