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understanding a complex tourism phenomenon
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By
James Higham, Associate Professor, Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand
Description
Critical Issues in Ecotourism seeks to shake the current stagnant literature on the subject of ecotourism out of a state
of complacency. Drawing upon emerging insights provided by pre-eminent scholars in the field it identifies and comprehensively addresses
current critical issues. Accessible to both academic and non-academic audiences, it provides the reader with the following:
* A critical,
direct and hard hitting analysis of the real issues that apply to the field of ecotourism
*Contributions from prominent international
scholars that address issues of relevance to a diverse and international readership
* Dissemination of the scholarly works of social
and natural science addressing this field
* A collection of works by outstanding international scholars, in a comprehensively planned
and integrated book
Incorporating rigorous scientific insights in specialised fields of research, for example, identifying and protecting
critical habits where tourists engage with endangered species, Critical Issues in Ecotourism is an important and ground breaking contribution
set to expose the increasingly mythologized field of ecotourism.
Audience
Senior undergraduate and post graduate students; libraries; managers; regulators; and NGO's operating in the Ecotourism field.
Contents
1 - Ecotourism: Competing and conflicting schools of thought by James Higham; Part I. Generic issues in ecotourism; 2 - Definition paradoxes:
From concept to definition by Peter Bj rk; 3 - Ecotourism as a western construct by Erlet Cater; 4 - Ecotourism and Global Environmental
Change by Stefan G ssling; 5 - Ecotourism, energy use and the global climate – widening the local perspective by Susanne Becken and Matthias
Schellhorn; 6 - Ecotourism and biosecurity by C. Michael Hall.; 7 - Ecotourism: Pondering the paradoxes by James Higham and Michael L
ck; 8 - Against the current: Striving for ethical ecotourism by Agnes Nowaczek, Cesar Moran-Cahusac and David Fennell; 9 - The role of
sustainable tourism in international development: Prospects for economic growth, alleviation of poverty, and environmental conservation
by Megan Epler Wood; 10 - Ecotourism and gender issues by Regina Scheyvens; 11 - Ecotourism, CSR, and the fourth dimension of sustainability
by Pam Wight; Part II. Critical issues in ecotourism policy, planning and management; 12 - Scaling Ecotourism: The role of scale in understanding
the impacts of ecotourism by C. Michael Hall; 13 - Defining critical habitats: The spatio-ecological approach to managing tourism-wildlife
interactions by James Higham and David Lusseau; 14 - Ecotourism and wildlife habituation by Eric Shelton and James Higham; 15 - Ecotourism
and biodiversity conservation in Asia: Institutional challenges and opportunities by Janet Cochrane; 16 - Indigenous ecotourism: Conservation
and resource rights by Heather Zeppel; 17 - Indigenous perspectives on ecotourism in Nepal: The Ghale Kharka-Sikles and Sirubari experience
by Sanjay K. Nepal; 18 - China: Ecotourism and cultural tourism: Harmony or dissonance? By Trevor Sofield; 19 - Ecotourism certification:
Potential and challenges by Xavier Font; 20 - Negotiating the obstacles: Owner/operator perspectives on ?nature' tourism in New Zealand
by Anna Carr; 21 - Critical issues in ecotourism: Which school of thought should prevail? By James Higham
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 464 pages, publication date: MAR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6878-1
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6878-4
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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