1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910627286903321

Titolo

Tourism and resilience / / edited by Richard Butler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxfordshire, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-78064-835-9

1-78064-834-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

338.4/79104

Soggetti

Resilience (Ecology)

Sustainable tourism

Tourism - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Richard Butler -- The development of resilience thinking / Marta Berbés-Blázquez and Daniel Scott -- Community tourism resilience : some applications of the scale, change and resiliene (SCR) model / Alan A. Lew, Tsung-chiung Wu, Chin-cheng Ni, Pin T. Ng -- Socio-ecological balance in community based tourism experiences : a resarch proposal / Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros -- Resilience and destination governance / Valerie A. Sheppard -- Resilience and destination governance : Whistler, B.C. / Valerie A. Sheppard -- Sri Lankan tourism development and implications for resilience / Jeremy Buultjens, Iraj Ratnayake, Athula Chammika Gnanapala -- Resilience, tourism and disasters / Susanne Becken and Bijan Khazai -- Resilience and perceptions of problems in alpine regions / Bruno Abegg, Robert Steiger and Lisa Trawöger -- Tourism resilience in UK national parks / Janet Cochrane -- Resilience and protected area tourism in Purnululu National Park : understanding interactions with a focus on community benefits / Jennifer Strickland-Munro -- Resilience and tourism in islands : insights from the Caribbean / Arjen Alberts and Godfrey Baldacchino -- Resilience and tourism in remote locations : Pitcairn Islands / Maria Amoamo -- Issues of resilience, sustainability and responsibility in tourism / Harold Goodwin -- Betting on casino



tourism resilience : a case study of casino expansion in Macao and the Asia region / Glenn McCartney -- Resilience as new political reality / Jonathan Pugh -- Conclusions / Richard Butler.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996202222103316

Autore

Dickens Peter <1940, >

Titolo

Reconstructing nature : alienation, emancipation, and the division of labour / / Peter Dickens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-87902-4

1-134-87903-2

0-203-30642-2

1-280-32154-7

0-203-42075-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology.

Disciplina

304.2/01

Soggetti

Human ecology - Philosophy

Division of labor

Marxian school of sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; SOCIETY, NATURE AND THE BALKANISATION OF ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE; UNDERSTANDING ALIENATION: FROM THE ABSTRACT TO THE CONCRETE; REALISM, SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND THE PROBLEM OF 'NATURE'; WHO WOULD KNOW? SCIENCE, LAY KNOWLEDGE AND ALIENATION; INDUSTRIALISING NATURE'S POWERS; CIVIL SOCIETY: THE RECOVERY OF WHOLENESS?; KNOWLEDGE, STATE AUTHORITY AND THE DIVISION OF LABOUR; GREEN UTOPIAS AND THE DIVISION OF LABOUR; EPILOGUE: HUMANISING NATURE, NATURALISING HUMANS; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the light of the confusion surrounding the environmental crisis, Peter Dickens explores how the natural world relates to the social.  The book aims to find ways of reorganising knowledge in the light of ecological



consciousness.