Description
Critical Issues in Ecotourism seeks to shake the current stagnant literature on the subject of ecotourism out of a state of complacency. Drawing upon emerging insights provided by pre-eminent scholars in the field it identifies and comprehensively addresses current critical issues. Accessible to both academic and non-academic audiences, it provides the reader with the following:
* A critical, direct and hard hitting analysis of the real issues that apply to the field of ecotourism
*Contributions from prominent international scholars that address issues of relevance to a diverse and international readership
* Dissemination of the scholarly works of social and natural science addressing this field
* A collection of works by outstanding international scholars, in a comprehensively planned and integrated book
Incorporating rigorous scientific insights in specialised fields of research, for example, identifying and protecting critical habits where tourists engage with endangered species, Critical Issues in Ecotourism is an important and ground breaking contribution set to expose the increasingly mythologized field of ecotourism.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Ecotourism: competing and conflicting schools of thought, James Higham; Part 1 Generic Issues in Ecotourism; Chapter 2 Definition Paradoxes: From concept to definition, Peter Björk; Chapter 3 Ecotourism as a western construct, Erlet Cater; Chapter 4 Ecotourism and global environmental change, Stefan Gössling; Chapter 5 Ecotourism, energy use, and the global climate: widening the local perspective, Susanne Becken, Matthias Schellhorn; Chapter 6 Biosecurity and ecotourism, C. Michael Hall; Chapter 7 Ecotourism: pondering the paradoxes, James Higham, Michael Lück; Chapter 8 Against the current: striving for ethical ecotourism, Agnes M. Nowaczek, Cesar Moran-Cahusac, David A. Fennell; Chapter 9 The role of sustainable tourism in international development: prospects for economic growth, alleviation of poverty and environmental conservation, Megan Epler Wood; Chapter 10 Ecotourism and gender issues, Regina Scheyvens; Chapter 11 Ecotourism, CSR, and the fourth dimension of sustainability, Pamela Wight; Part 2 Critical issues in ecotourism policy, planning and management; Chapter 12 Scaling ecotourism: the role of scale in understanding the impacts of ecotourism, C. Michael Hall; Chapter 13 Defining critical habitats: the spatio-ecological approach to managing tourism–wildlife interactions, James Higham, David Lusseau; Chapter 14 Ecotourism and wildlife habituation, Eric J. Shelton, James Higham; Chapter 15 Ecotourism and biodiversity conservation in Asia: institutional challenges and opportunities, Janet Cochrane; Chapter 16 Indigenous ecotourism: conservation and resource rights, Heather Zeppel; Chapter 17 Indigenous perspectives on ecotourism in Nepal: the Ghale Kharka-Sikles and Sirubari experience, Sanjay K. Nepal; Chapter 18 China: ecotourism and cultural tourism, harmony or dissonance?, Trevor Sofield, Fung Mei Sarah Li; Chapter 19 Ecotourism certification: potential and challenges, Xavier Font; Chapter 20 Negotiating the obstacles: owner/operator perspectives on ‘nature’ tourism in New Zealand, Anna Carr; Chapter 21 Ecotourism: which school of thought should prevail?, James Higham;
