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Tourism, Recreation and Sustainability : Linking Culture and the Environment.
Title:
Tourism, Recreation and Sustainability : Linking Culture and the Environment.
Author:
McCool, S.F.
ISBN:
9781845934712
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (306 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Preface to the 2nd Edition -- 1 Introduction: Pathways and Pitfalls in the Search for Sustainable Tourism -- PART I: Frameworks and Approaches -- 2 Recreation Ecology in Sustainable Tourism and Ecotourism: a Strengthening Role -- 3 Ecotourism and Nature-based Tourism: One End of the Tourism Opportunity Spectrum? -- 4 Hypothesizing the Shifting Mosaic of Attitudes Through Time: a Dynamic Framework for Sustainable Tourism Development on a 'Mediterranean Isle' -- 5 Tourism, Sustainability and the Social Milieux in Lake Superior's North Shore and Islands -- 6 Development and Evaluation of Sustainable Tourism Principles: the WWF Arctic Tourism Guidelines Initiative -- PART II: Tourism, Place, and Community -- 7 From 'Guiding Fiction' to Action: Applying 'The Natural Step' to Sustainability Planning in the Resort of Whistler, British Columbia -- 8 Destination and Place Branding: a Lost Sense of Place? -- 9 Withstanding the Test of Time: Yellowstone and Sustainable Tourism -- 10 Community Perspectives in Sustainable Tourism: Lessons from Peru -- 11 Local Participation and Attaining Sustainable Tourism: a Comparative Study of Honduran -- PART III: Emerging Issues in Culture and Tourism -- 12 Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Lessons from Southern Africa -- 13 Cultural Inscriptions of Nature: Some Implications for Sustainability, Nature-based Tourism and National Parks -- 14 The Attitudes of Community Residents Towards Tourism -- 15 Tourism and Indigenous Peoples -- 16 Sustainable Tourism in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Past, Challenges to Address -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Sustainable development is the single most important consideration for those working in the tourism industry. Presenting a discussion by leading contributors on the impacts of tourism on local culture and the environment, this new edition moves forward the debates in sustainable tourism, covering new locations, concepts and perspectives, and new case studies providing a global outlook for a universal issue.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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