Title The footprint of Polar tourism : Tourist behaviour at cultural heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard.

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Havertown : Barkhuis, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource (325 pages).
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Series	Circumpolar Studies ; v. 7
	Circumpolar studies.
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Contents	Cover; Dedication; Preface; Abstract; 1 General introduction; 2 Research methods; 3 Regulating Antarctic tourismand the precautionary principle; 4 Monitoring the transformation of historic features in Antarctica and Svalbard: Local processes and regional contexts; 5 Antarctic scientific bases: Environmental and cultural heritage perspectives 1983-2008; 6 The polar cultural heritage as a tourism attraction; 7 From extraction to exhibition: Tourism at a disused marble quarry at Ny-London, Svalbard; 8 Cultural heritage tourism in Antarctica and Svalbard: Patterns, impacts, and policies.
	9 Overview and synthesis10 General conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Epilogue; Appendix 1 -- Acronyms and abbreviations; Appendix 2 -- Glossary; Appendix 3 -- Cultural heritage in the 2001 Svalbard Act; Appendix 4 -- Cultural heritage in the 1991 Antarctic Protocol; Appendix 5 -- List of interviewees.
Summary	This thesis aims to describe and interpret the effects of tourism on historic sites in Antarctica and Svalbard (also known as Spitsbergen), and to assess the implications for management. Explorers, whalers, seal hunters, scientists and others have left many material remains in the Polar Regions that are significant because they tell the history of the exploration and exploitation of these regions. Contemporary polar tourism represents a new phase in this exploration and exploitation of the Polar Regions. The potential for the transformation of historic sites has increased following the substan.
Subject	Tourism -- Environmental aspects -- Norway -- Svalbard.
	Tourism -- Environmental aspects -- Polar regions -- Case studies.
	Sustainable tourism -- Polar regions.
	Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Polar regions.
	Cultural property -- Protection -- Norway -- Svalbard.
	Environmental impact analysis -- Norway -- Svalbard.
	TRAVEL -- Australia & Oceania.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
	Cultural property -- Protection. (OCoLC)fst00885019
	Environmental impact analysis. (OCoLC)fst00913055
	Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration. (OCoLC)fst00957852
	Sustainable tourism. (OCoLC)fst01750283
	Tourism -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01153163
	Polar regions. (OCoLC)fst01245645
	Svalbard. (OCoLC)fst01207362
Genre/Form	Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Other Form:	Print version: Roura, Ricardo Mariano. Footprint of Polar tourism : Tourist behaviour at cultural heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard. Havertown : Barkhuis, ©2011 9789077922873
ISBN	9789491431593 (electronic bk.)
	9491431595 (electronic bk.)

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