Screen LibraryRainforest tourism, conservation and management : challenges for sustainable development /
"Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion. Yet they have a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and providing other ecosystem services. Rainforests are also attractive...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Earthscan forest library
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| Summary: |
"Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion. Yet they have a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and providing other ecosystem services. Rainforests are also attractive tourist spaces and where they have been used as a tourism resource they have generated significant income for local communities. However, not all use of rainforests as a tourism resource has been sustainable. This book argues that sustainability must be the foundation on which tourism use of this complex but ultimately fragile ecosystem must be built upon. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective ... "This book argues that sustainability must be the foundation on which tourism use of this complex but ultimately fragile ecosystem must be built upon. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective, incorporating rainforest science, management and tourism issues"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415635820 (hardback) : 0415635829 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | G156 |
| CLC: | F590.75 |
| Call Number: | F590.75/R156 |
| Contents: | 1. Factors Governing the Development of Tourism in Rainforest Regions / Bruce Prideaux -- Tropical Rainforest Ecology : Implications for Tourism Development / Bruce Prideaux -- National Parks, Rainforests and Tourism in Australia : An Historical Perspective / Warwick Frost -- Climate Change Impacts and Response Strategies for Rainforest Tourism : Cairns Case Study / Robyn F. Wilson -- Climate Change and Rainforest Tourism in Australia / Stephen M. Turton -- Trees, Tourists and Trade-offs : The Political Ecology of Rainforest Tourism, Forest Clearance and Biodiversity Conservation in Madagascar / Ivan R. Scales -- The Lamington National Park : A Contrasts Approach to Rainforest Tourism Research / Noel Scott, Don Getz, Steve Noakes and Eric Laws ... |