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  • Mountain Tourism, Altitude and Host-Guest Relationships

    by Michal Apollo ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality
    This insightful volume critically explores whether higher altitude of habitation affects host-guest exchanges in mountaineering tourism, in an effort to better understand and manage vulnerable destinations in a sustainable manner.The book is based on empirical research conducted in the Mount Everest area in Nepal, part of the Sagarmatha National Park, which is a popular destination among tourists ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Pro-Poor Mountain Tourism

    Edited by Michal Apollo, Yana Wengel, Thomas Pogge ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    This timely and interdisciplinary book is the first to examine mountain tourism and local communities with a pro-poor lens. By drawing on human geography, political and social science, ethics and moral philosophy and empirical research, the volume explores how mountain tourism can be used to fight poverty and inequality in mountain regions.Mountain tourism represents a growing mass tourism ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mountaineering Tourism

    A Critical Perspective

    by Michal Apollo, Yana Wengel ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality
    This bookoffers a critical account of the historical evolution of mountaineering and its relation to the phenomenon of tourism, providing an overview of recent developments linked to the diversification, commodification and commercialisation of mountaineering activity.Mountaineering, broadly defined as hiking, trekking and climbing, is now a mass phenomenon, with continually growing numbers of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Poverty and Development

    Problems and Prospects

    Edited by Michal Apollo, Pahlaj Moolio ...
    This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both empirical and conceptual chapters, including those by local researchers, on a range of topics highlighting the relationship between poverty and sustainability. It cover themes such as: changes in the environment that pose an existential risk to humans; new concepts in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Nature-Based Tourism in Asia’s Mountainous Protected Areas

    A Trans-regional Review of Peaks and Parks

    Edited by Thomas E. Jones, Huong T. Bui, Michal Apollo ...
    Series series Geographies of Tourism and Global Change
    This book provides holistic insights into management of protected areas across East Asia and identifies current trends in mountain tourism within the broader field of human geography and nature conservation. The book describes the diversification in visitors and expanding protected areas territories in different Asian countries during recent years. It also compares protected areas networks in the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Environmental Impacts of Mountaineering

    A Conceptual Framework

    by Michal Apollo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book investigates the consequences of mountaineering (hiking, trekking, climbing) on the natural environment. These consequences are divided into three groups: 1) transformations caused by the mountaineer’s, or other people’s, stay in a mountaineering region; 2) transformations caused by the mountaineer’s travel (movement) through a mountaineering region, with the consideration of the ground ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Ecological, Economic, Social and Political Interrelationships

    Edited by Stefan Gössling, Michael C. Hall ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    This fascinating book is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between tourism and global environmental change: one of the most significant issues facing humankind today. Its contributors argue that the impacts of these changes are potentially extremely serious both for the tourism industry, and for the communities dependent upon it.Integrating ... Read more

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  • The Bear: Culture, Nature, Heritage

    by Professor Owen Nevin, Henry McGhie, Professor Ian Convery, Jeff Meldrum, Jenny Anne Glikman, John Kitchen, Jón Jónsson, Koen Cuyten, Kristinn Schram0, Lynn Rogers1, Mark Wilson2, Melanie Clapham3, Miha Krofel4, Mike Jeffries5, Professor Peter Davis6, Philip Charles8, Russell C. Van Horn9, Samantha A. Young0, Sarah Elmeligi1, Tracy Hayes2, Barrie K. Gilbert3, Beatrice Frank4, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir5, Elizabeth O. Davis6, Gareth Longstaff7, Heather Prince8 ...
    Bears are iconic animals, playing a variety of roles in human culture. They have been portrayed as gods, monsters, kings, fools, brothers, lovers, and dancers; they are seen as protectors of the forest; symbols of masculinity; a comfort for children; and act as symbols for conservation and environmental issues. They also symbolise wilderness, reinforcing and maintaining our connection to the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Darwin Comes to Town

    How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

    by Menno Schilthuizen ...
    *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europe's urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic.How is this happening?Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Understanding culture in territorial management and its implications for spatial planning.

    The case of floodplain management in urbanised delta regions in the Netherlands and Thailand

    by Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich ...
    This study presents and applies an integrative conceptual framework which is used to explain how culture, planning policy and territorial management outcomes are interrelated, and what the implications are for spatial planning. The study investigates territorial development processes in the context of floodplain management in urbanised delta regions. This specific context is selected because of ... Read more

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  • First Knowledges Songlines

    The Power and Promise

    by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly ...
    Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe 'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette Russell Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ... Read more

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  • Hope Matters

    Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis

    by Elin Kelsey ...
    “This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” —Jane GoodallFears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children’s future; thirty-somethings question whether they should have kids or not; and many young people honestly believe they have no future at all.In the face of extreme eco ... Read more

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