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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783106403321

Titolo

Nature-based tourism, environment, and land management [[electronic resource] /] / edited by R. Buckley, C. Pickering, and D.B. Weaver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, USA, : CABI Pub., c2003

ISBN

1-280-86620-9

9786610866205

0-85199-974-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Ecotourism book series ; ; no. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

BuckleyRalf

PickeringC (Catherine)

WeaverDavid B (David Bruce)

Disciplina

338.4/791

Soggetti

Ecotourism

Ecotourism - Australia

Land use

Land use - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the Fenner Conference on Nature Tourism and the Environment, held in Canberra, Australia, 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contributors; Preface; 1 The Practice and Politics of Tourism and Land Management; 2 Nature-based Tourism and Sustainability: Issues and Approaches; 3 Sustainable Tourism: World Trends and Challenges Ahead; 4 Private Reserves: the Conservation Corporation Africa Model; 5 Applying Public-purpose Marketing in the USA to Protect Relationships with Public Lands; 6 The Financial Liability of Park Managers for Visitor Injuries; 7 Visitor Fees, Tour Permits and Asset and Risk Management by Parks Agencies: Australian Case Study

8 The Net Economic Benefits of Recreation and Timber Production in Selected New South Wales Native Forests9 Moving Nearer to Heaven: Growth and Change in the Greater Yellowstone Region, USA; 10 Visitor-impact Data in a Land-management Context; 11 Small Recreational and Tourist Vessels in Inshore Coastal Areas: a Characterization of Types of Impacts; 12 Establishing Best-practice Environmental Management: Lessons from the Australian Tour-boat Industry; 13 Impacts of Nature



Tourism on the Mount Kosciuszko Alpine Area, Australia

14 Ecological Change as a Result of Winter Tourism: Snow Manipulation in the Australian Alps15 A Method for Calculating Environmental Sensitivity to Walker Trampling in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area; 16 Modelling Potential for Nature-based Tourism; 17 Contributions of Non-consumptive Wildlife Tourism to Conservation; 18 Balancing Conservation and Visitation in Protected Areas; 19 Conclusions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume looks at the economic, social and environmental consequences of nature-based tourism and its effects on land managers. It discusses the importance of links and partnerships, as well as the conflicts, between commercial tourism interests and land management agencies.