Environmental Issues of Tourism and Recreation

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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This innovative and thoroughly interdisciplinary book discusses the environmental impact of tourism and recreation. These issues are not observed in a vacuum, but rather in the holistic context of the relationships and interactions between other non-tourist factors that also shape the ecosystem. Environmental Issues of Tourism and Recreation is divided into three parts: environmental impacts on tourism and tourists; the positive and negative impact of tourism on the natural environment; and suggestions on how to minimize the unfavorable effects of tourism on nature in the attempt at making tourism environmentally sustainable. Contents: Environmental Impacts on Tourism and Tourists; External (Nontourist) Human Impacts on Natural Environment as Part of the Tourism Product; The Positive Impacts of Tourism and Recreation on Natural Environment; The Negative Impacts of Tourism and Recreation on Environment: Parameters, Agents, and Factors of Overdevelopment; The Negative Impact of Tourism and Recreation on Elements of the Environmental System; The Negative Impact of Tourism and Recreation on Ecosystems; The Issue of Carrying Capacity; The Search for Environmentally Sustainable Tourism; Environmental Planning and Management of Tourism and Recreation; Ecotourism as a Form of Alternative Tourism; Conclusions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-07-25
Mått:148 x 228 x 29 mm
Vikt:730 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:566
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780819199959

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Zbigniew Mieczkowski was Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Manitoba.

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It reads...like a good story told by a very knowledgeable writer, who can inform the reader from an almost bottomless pool of knowledge and personal experience...Mieczkowski brings it all together under a set of very systematic headings. -- Jan O. Lundgren, McGill University ...a very thorough analysis of the relationship between the environment and tourism and recreation. -- Gordon D. Taylor, (Retired) Tourism Canada and a consultant ...a very thorough analysis of the relationship between the environment and tourism and recreation. -- Gordon D. Taylor, (Retired) Tourism Canada and a consultant It reads...like a good story told by a very knowledgeable writer, who can inform the reader from an almost bottomless pool of knowledge and personal experience...Mieczkowski brings it all together under a set of very systematic headings. -- Jan O. Lundgren, McGill University