A variety of atmospheres, conditions and climates enable and constrain our activities outdoors. Our sixth International Adventure Conference will open up critical discourse about changing climates – economic, social, cultural, philosophical and physical. Our previous events in Scotland, Norway, England and Ireland have attracted a truly worldwide audience - from a range of different climates - with participants from 30+ countries in attendance over the years. The delegates carry with them lived experiences of these climates and share stories of the ways in which their business or practice has adapted to climates of economic difficulty, global warming, heightened political security concerns and imbalances in terms of policy, access and power relations.
We aim to bring together leading academics and industry practitioners in the fabulous setting and wide-ranging climates of Segovia, to learn about and debate burning issues in nature-based and adventure tourism, outdoor recreation and outdoor learning. Themes range from marketing and entrepreneurship responses to shifting climates to philosophical issues concerned with these changing, fluid conditions… all themes related to something close to our hearts: life in the great outdoors. Of course, themes such as journeys, liminality, boundary crossing and escape attempts from home are also core and related concepts, but for 2018 should be set against the conceptual apparatus of ‘climate’, variously conceived.
