The Routledge handbook of tourism and sustainability / edited by C. Michael Hall, Stefan Gossling and Daniel Scott.

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Book
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English
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1st ed.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2015.
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1 online resource (548 p.)

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"Sustainability remains one of the major issues in tourism today. Concerns over climate and environmental change, the fallout from the global economic and financial crisis, and the seeming failure to meeting UN Millennium development goals have only reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to tourism, however they be defined. Given the centrality of sustainability in tourism curricula, policies, research and practice it is therefore appropriate to prepare a state of the art handbook on the relationship between tourism and sustainability. This timely Handbook of Tourism and Sustainability is developed from specifically commissioned original contributions from recognised authors in the field, providing a systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on this area. It is interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content. The volume commences with an assessment of tourism's global environmental, e.g. climate, emissions, energy use, biodiversity, water use, land use, and socio-economic effects, e.g. economic impacts, employment and livelihoods, culture. This then provides the context for the following sections that describe the main theoretical frameworks and constructs that inform tourism and sustainability, management tools and approaches, and the approaches used in different tourism and travel industry sectors. The book concludes by examining emerging and future concerns in tourism and sustainability such as peak-oil, post-carbon tourism, green economy and transition tourism"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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Contents
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; List of acronyms; Acknowledgements; 1 Tourism and sustainability: an introduction; PART 1 Introductory contexts to tourism and sustainability; 2 The evolution of sustainable development and sustainable tourism; 3 The global effects and impacts of tourism: an overview; PART 2 Theoretical frameworks and concepts in tourism and sustainability; 4 Tourism and the precautionary principle in theory and practice; 5 Sustainable yield: an integrated approach to tourism management
  • 6 Tourism and common pool resources7 Tourism and human rights; 8 Ethics in tourism; 9 Pro-poor tourism: reflections on past research and directions for the future; 10 Environmentally sustainable tourists?; 11 Environmental justice and tourism; 12 Consumptive and non-consumptive tourism practices: the case of wildlife tourism; 13 Tourism and cultural change; PART 3 Management tools and concepts; 14 Environmental indicators and benchmarking for sustainable tourism development; 15 Certification and labeling; 16 Life cycle assessment; 17 Carbon management
  • 18 Sustainable tourism legislation and regulation19 Promoting voluntary behaviour change for sustainable tourism: the potential role of social marketing; 20 Managing visitors to the natural environment; 21 Tourism and corporate social responsibility; 22 Wildlife tourism: "Call it consumption!"; 23 Stories of people and places: interpretation, tourism and sustainability; 24 Tourism in the future(s): forecasting and scenarios; 25 Local-scale environmental impacts and management of tourism; PART 4 Sectoral approaches to tourism and sustainability; 26 Foodservice in tourism and sustainability
  • 27 Environmental management and online environmental performance assessment tools in the hotel industry: theory and practice28 Built attractions and sustainability; 29 Destination tourism: critical debates, research gaps and the need for a new research agenda; 30 Natural heritage, parks and protected areas; 31 Changing audience behaviour: a pathway to sustainable event management; 32 Small firms and sustainable tourism policy: exploring moral framing; PART 5 Sustainable transport and mobility; 33 Sustainable mobility; 34 The role of aviation in sustainable development of tourism
  • 35 The environmental challenges of cruise tourism: impacts and governance36 Public transport; 37 Sustainable space tourism: new destinations, new challenges; PART 6 Emerging issues and the future; 38 Peak Oil and tourism: the end of growth?; 39 Low-carbon and post-carbon travel and destinations; 40 Slow travel; 41 Tourism and sustainability: towards a green(er) tourism economy?; Index
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Handbook of tourism and sustainability
ISBN
  • 1-135-09913-8
  • 1-138-07147-1
  • 0-203-07233-2
  • 1-135-09914-6
OCLC
958102674
Doi
  • 10.4324/9780203072332
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