Human Geography category: 3213 books
Volunteer Tourism
Theoretical Frameworks and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for various reasons seek alternative goodwill experiences and activities. To meet this demand there has been a surge in volunteer programmes offered in range of destinations organized by a variety of charities...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
In recent years, a growing emphasis has been placed on tourism experiences and attractions related to food. In many cases eating out while on holiday includes the 'consumption' of a local heritage, comparable to what is experienced when visiting historical sites and museums.
Despite this increasing...
The City in the Experience Economy
Role and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The book develops a new approach to urban development in which leisure, pleasure or experiences are seen as key drivers. History, authenticity, urban qualities, local culture and leisure offerings or a vibrant retail sector are thus assets in local development also outside of the big cities. Globalization...
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 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: 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...
Transbordering Latin Americas
Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)Here
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. Gathering scholars from the "spatial sciences"—architecture, urban design,...