New publications by NRT alum Lydia Horne examine climate change risk perceptions
NRT alum Lydia Horne is lead author on two recent studies of how people perceive climate change risks. Examining such perceptions is important for understanding how climate change may impact nature-based tourism, which is an important industry for Maine. One study, coauthored by 91±¬ÁÏ faculty Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, and Laura Rickard and published in the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, assessed factors influencing climate change risk perceptions among visitors to Acadia National Park. The other study, published in Northeastern Naturalist and coauthored by De Urioste-Stone and another 91±¬ÁÏ faculty member, John Daigle, investigated how nature-based tourism stakeholders perceive climate change risks and how they are responding.
Lydia Horne, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Erin Seekamp, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, Laura Rickard. 2021. Determinants of visitor climate change risk perceptions in Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 35:100401. DOI:
Lydia Horne, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, John Daigle. 2021. Climate change adaptation and mitigation in the face of local uncertainty: A phenomenological study. Northeastern Naturalist 28(sp11):108–128. DOI: