| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 323 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility |
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Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. An Introduction to Tourism and Global Environmental Change; 2. Impacts of Global Environmental Change on Tourism in the Pola Regions; 3. Global Environmental Change and Mountain Tourism; 4. Lakes and Streams; 5. Tourism and Forest Ecosystems; 6. The Coastal and Marine Environment; 7. Deserts and Savannah Regions; 8. Tourism Urbanisation and Global Environmental Change; 9. Tourism, Disease and Global Environmental Change: The Fourth Transition?; 10. Tourism and Water. |
| Summary |
This fascinating book is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between tourism and global environmental change: one of the most significant issues facing humankind today. Its contributors argue that the impacts of these changes are potentially extremely serious both for the tourism industry, and for the communities dependent upon it. Divided into four main sections, this significant book explores tourism as both a contributor to global environmental change, and as one of the economic sectors potentially impacted by it. It investigates: - the t. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Global environmental change.
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Tourism -- Environmental aspects.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
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Global environmental change. (OCoLC)fst00943478
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Tourism -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01153163
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Changement global (Environnement)
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Tourisme.
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| Added Author |
Hall, Colin Michael, 1961-
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| Spine Title |
Tourism & global environmental change |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gössling, Stefan. Tourism and global environmental change. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2006 (DLC) 2005011328 |
| ISBN |
0203011910 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203011911 (electronic bk.) |
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0415361311 (Cloth) |
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041536132X (softcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780415361316 |
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9780415361323 |
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9786610463213 |
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6610463212 |
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