Adventure Tourism
Environmental Impacts and Management
Authors: Huddart, David, Stott, Tim
Free Preview- Emphasises education of the undergraduate market but also of employees and managers of adventure tourism
- Discusses how to best manage the environmental impact of adventure tourism
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- About this Textbook
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This textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the environmental impacts of various types of adventure tourism and how these can be best managed. This volume follows on from the authors previous textbook – ‘Outdoor Recreation: Environmental Impacts and Management’ and continues the aim of developing a deeper understanding of how tourist numbers impact the environment and to provide practical solutions to these problems. Combining their own first-hand experience and research with extensive literature review the authors' present several popular adventure tourism destinations from across the globe, including the Arctic, the Himalayas, Africa, Australia and Scotland as case studies. Chapters cover the particular challenges faced by each region: including impacts on animals and birds; the spread of invasive plant species and diseases; trail impacts on vegetation; impacts on geological, historical and archaeological sites and pollution and waste issues. A discussion and evaluation of the possible management actions for minimising these impacts and how outdoor recreation tourists can be regulated concludes each chapter.
This practical and engaging textbook will be invaluable to students and scholars of adventure tourism and outdoor recreation as well as practitioners and managers working in the field. - About the authors
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David Huddart is Emeritus Professor at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has extensive experience teaching landscape interpretation, recreation ecology, and outdoor and environmental education.
Tim Stott is Professor of Physical Geography and Outdoor Education at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has been responsible for leading and teaching on the Outdoor Education programmes for 25 years.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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What Is Adventure Tourism?
Pages 1-9
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Adventure Tourism in Antarctica
Pages 11-50
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The Arctic Islands: Svalbard and Iceland
Pages 51-100
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Adventure Tourism in the Russian Arctic
Pages 101-120
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Adventure Tourism in Greenland
Pages 121-139
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Adventure Tourism
- Book Subtitle
- Environmental Impacts and Management
- Authors
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- David Huddart
- Tim Stott
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-18623-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-18623-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-18622-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXX, 475
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour
- Topics
