Tourism and the Environment
Regional, Economic, Cultural and Policy Issues
Editors: Briassoulis, Helen, van der Straaten, Jan (Eds.)
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There is a complex relationship between the environment and the development of tourism, which this book discusses in a thorough and informative manner. Specialists from several disciplines pay attention to the challenges of sustainable tourism, devoting their full attention to cultural, regional and policy issues. This is a revised edition that has been expanded to 22 contributions, with inclusion of the cultural element. All chapters have been updated to include new data and information added to the existing body of literature in the last 7 years. It includes new developments and new insights into the relationship between tourism and the environment. An invaluable sequel to the first edition.
- Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Tourism and the Environment: An Overview
Pages 1-19
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Environmental Impacts of Tourism: A Framework for Analysis and Evaluation
Pages 21-37
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Tourism Development and the Natural Environment: An Economic-Ecological Model for the Sporades Islands
Pages 39-58
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A Dynamic Simulation Study of Tourism and Environment in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico
Pages 59-89
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Tourism and the Environment: Some Observations on the Concept of Carrying Capacity
Pages 91-105
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Tourism and the Environment
- Book Subtitle
- Regional, Economic, Cultural and Policy Issues
- Editors
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- Helen Briassoulis
- Jan van der Straaten
- Series Title
- Environment & Assessment
- Series Volume
- 6
- Copyright
- 2000
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-015-9584-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-015-9584-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-6136-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-5385-5
- Series ISSN
- 0929-0788
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- VI, 382
- Topics