Title:	Tourism and Global Environmental change: Ecological, social, economic and political interrelationships
Authors:	Stefan Gössling and C. Michael Hall
Keywords:	Tourism
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	Global environmental change undoubtedly represents one of the major challenges to humanity and the planet, but also to the academy as well. Concern over the environmental impacts of human actions at a global scale is not new. Arguably, such concerns can be traced back at least to the work of George Perkins Marsh in 1864 and have been an ongoing thread in debates on conservation and resource management ever since. However, for all the scientific and academic writing on the need for sound resource management and the expressions of interest in sustainable development, the scale and severity of human impact on natural bio- physical processes has continued to grow, as has the loss of biodiversity. Over the past 25 years the tourism industry has often sought to portray itself as a relatively benign contributor to the conservation of the environment, while simul- taneously providing positive benefits in terms of employment, economic develop- ment and wealth generation. Much of this contribution has been described within the rubric of sustainable tourism and is often highlighted in the portrayal of tourism as a relatively environmentally friendly industry. It is for these reasons that one would, therefore, assume tourism to be at the forefront of efforts to promote more positive approaches towards managing global environmental change. Unfor- tunately, that is not the case
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/27302
ISBN:	9-78-0-415-36131-6
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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