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Volcanic Tourist Destinations

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Patricia Erfurt-Cooper

    1. James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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  • Provides an up-to-date in-depth look at volcanic tourist destinations worldwide
  • An important companion text to mainstream geological texts on volcanoes and their environments
  • A Reference book highlighting volcanic destinations and their geological heritage worldwide
  • A Handbook for tourism information centres
  • Includes risk avoidance recommendations for volcanic areas
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism (GGAG)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Patricia Erfurt-Cooper
      Pages 3-31

  3. European Volcanoes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Southern Iceland: Volcanoes, Tourism and Volcanic Risk Reduction

      • Deanne K. Bird, Guðrún Gísladóttir
      Pages 35-46

    3. Tourism and Volcanism in the Canary Islands, Spain

      • Jasmine Cardozo Moreira, Roberto Rendeiro Martín-Cejas, Guillermo Melendez-Hevia
      Pages 47-55

    4. The Azores Archipelago: Islands of Geodiversity

      • João Carlos Nunes
      Pages 57-67

    5. Volcano Tourism in Greece: Two Case Studies of Volcanic Islands

      • Kalliopi Gaki-Papanastassiou, Dimitrios Papanastassiou
      Pages 69-87

    6. Volcano Tourism in Turkey

      • Gülpınar Akbulut
      Pages 89-102

    7. Volcanic Heritage of the Carpathian–Pannonian Region in Eastern-Central Europe

      • Szabolcs Harangi
      Pages 103-123

    8. Aspects of Volcano Tourism in Italy: The San Venanzo Volcano Park and Museum

      • Francesco Stoppa
      Pages 125-129

    9. Volcanic Geotourism in France

      • Nathalie Cayla
      Pages 131-138

    10. La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone, Spain

      • Josep M. Prats, Emili Bassols
      Pages 139-143

    11. The Giants Causeway and Fingals Cave

      • Malcolm J. M. Cooper
      Pages 145-149

  4. The Pacific Ring of Fire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-153
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    2. Volcanoes of the Tongariro National Park, New Zealand

      • Harry Keys, Karen Williams
      Pages 155-182

    3. Taiwan Geotourism: A Volcanic Experience

      • Angus M. Robinson, Jiun-Chuan Lin
      Pages 183-191

    4. Galápagos: An Emerging Volcano Tourism Destination

      • Ross Dowling
      Pages 193-199

    5. Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA

      • Chris Newhall, Peter Frenzen, Carolyn Driedger
      Pages 201-208

    6. Volcano Tourism at Mount Batur in Bali, Indonesia

      • Patricia Erfurt-Cooper
      Pages 209-215
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About this book

This comprehensive book addresses the pressing need for up-to-date literature on volcanic destinations (active and dormant) and their role in tourism worldwide in chapters and case studies. The book presents a balanced view about the volcano-based tourism sector worldwide and discusses important issues such as the different volcanic hazards, potential for disasters and accidents and safety recommendations for visitors. Individual chapters and case studies are contributed by a number of internationally based co-authors, with expertise in geology, risk management, environmental science and other relevant disciplines associated with volcanoes. Also covered are risk aspects of volcano tourism such as risk perception, risk management and public safety in volcanic environments. Discussions of the demand for volcano tourism, including geotourism and adventure tourism as well as some historical facts related to volcanoes, with case studies of interesting socio-cultural settings are included.

Reviews

“The book is nicely edited, informative, and its chapters are of a good length with numerous nice color figures … . It is an important book that is the product of the first attempt to produce a strong and balanced overview of the current state of volcano tourism research. I would say that the book reaches this goal, and I recommend the book to anyone who wishes to work on volcanic geoheritage, volcano tourism, or even in volcano geoconservation projects.” (Károly Németh, Bulletin of Volcanology, Vol. 78, 2016)

“As the title implies, this book, part of the ‘Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism’ series, explores the relationship between volcanic landscapes and their role in volcano-based geotourism. … All discussions are well referenced and supported by excellent color photographs, geologic maps, graphs, tables, and charts. … The overallvalue of this book is its comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the international volcano tourism sector. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.” (J. B. Huffman, Choice, Vol. 52 (11), July, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

    Patricia Erfurt-Cooper

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