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

• Pubblicazione: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, USA, : CABI Pub., c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/791
• Soggetto topico: Ecotourism; Ecotourism - Australia; Land use; Land use - Australia
• Altri autori: BuckleyRalf PickeringC (Catherine) WeaverDavid B (David Bruce)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Nature-based tourism, environment, and land management
• ISBN: 1-280-86620-9; 9786610866205; 0-85199-974-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783106403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ecotourism book series ; ; no. 1.