Geography category: 5793 books
Tourism, Recreation and Regional Development
Perspectives from France and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
What factors contribute to tourism and recreation development? How can we characterise stakeholder rationales and organisation modes to enhance tourism resources and foster tourism and recreation services? To what extent do tourism and recreation contribute to regional development? What changes are...
Small Cities
Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban change...
by Andrew Holden
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
For many people, holidays are an increasingly central feature of contemporary western society. The tourism industry has expanded rapidly since 1950, but this book poses the significant question of consequent environmental impacts: are environments being benefited or damaged, by the tourist who visit...
Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
As one of the world’s largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, economic and political impacts. Although tourism can provide significant economic benefits for some destinations, the image of tourism as a benign and environmentally friendly industry has often...
International Tourism Development and the Gulf Cooperation Council States
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book examines the challenges facing the development of tourism in the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This region, which largely comprises the Arabian Peninsula, possesses some of the fastest...
by Arshi Aggarwal
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Scientific Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: 70, University of Sheffield (Department of Politics), course: The Politics of MIgration, language: English, abstract: Migration hump refers to the short term influx in migration...
People, Plants, and Justice
The Politics of Nature Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and...
Political Ecology
An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
This volume offers a unique, integrative perspective on the political and ecological processes shaping landscapes and resource use across the global North and South. Twelve carefully selected case studies demonstrate how contemporary geographical theories and methods can contribute to understanding...
by Anne Usher
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Dams As Aid brings together key issues in the aid/environment/development debate. Through her examination of dams, Usher sheds light on wider issues of the political economy of aid.
Detailed analysis of dams and aid case studies are included, particularly on Nordic dams which provide most graphic...
Environmental Change in South-East Asia
People, Politics and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
we are a part of, the current discussions of global recession in the media alerts us to the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated, and hyper-complex socio-economic-ecological system is d- ficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Did the 1980s and 1990s see the death of planning?
Exposing the myth that has grown up around Thatcherism, leading experts from a wide range of land-use policy areas examine the changes that were brought about in planning and the environment during the 1980s and 1990s, and argue that much less was...
Remaking Planning
The Politics of Urban Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Remaking Planning challenges the common misconception that planning under the Conservative government has been dismantled and abandoned to market forces.
This new edition of a very well received text brings the original study up to date with an analysis of how planning in the 1990s has responded to...
Brazil Emerging
Inequality and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
This volume is a critical inquiry into the social project and socioeconomic realities of emerging Brazil, a country that faces profound changes. A team of acknowledged specialists on Brazil’s complex configuration addresses state policies, social dynamics and economic constraints and opportunities...