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oapen-20.500.12657-240732024-03-22T19:23:15Z Tourism and Global Environmental Change Gössling, Stefan Hall, Michael C. climate scenario industry ski area sustainable world organization sea surface thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WT Travel and holiday::WTH Travel and holiday guides::WTHC Travel guides: eco-tourism / ‘green’ tourism 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. Integrating knowledge from the social and physical sciences, this significant book explores they key issues surrounding global environmental change, as well as government and industry willingness to meet the challenges posed by it. Divided into four main sections, it investigates: the tourism and global environmental change relationship in specific environments global issues related to environmental change differing perceptions of global environmental change held by tourists and the tourist industry. Comprehensive in scope, topical and integrative, this key text is essential reading for students, scholars and researchers in all aspects of tourism, geography and environmental studies. 2019-11-21 16:14:37 2020-04-01T09:40:01Z 2020-04-01T09:40:01Z 2006 book 1006059 OCN: 1135845280 9780415361316;9780415361323;9781134234196;9781134234189;9781134234141 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24073 eng Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 1006059.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781134175888 Taylor & Francis 10.4324/9780203011911 10.4324/9780203011911 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9780415361316;9780415361323;9781134234196;9781134234189;9781134234141 open access
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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. Integrating knowledge from the social and physical sciences, this significant book explores they key issues surrounding global environmental change, as well as government and industry willingness to meet the challenges posed by it. Divided into four main sections, it investigates: the tourism and global environmental change relationship in specific environments global issues related to environmental change differing perceptions of global environmental change held by tourists and the tourist industry. Comprehensive in scope, topical and integrative, this key text is essential reading for students, scholars and researchers in all aspects of tourism, geography and environmental studies.
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