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The Impact of Tourism on the Marine Environment (Hardcover)
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The Impact of Tourism on the Marine Environment (Hardcover)
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The first text to take a truly inter-disciplinary approach to
critically examining the impacts of tourism on marine environments
and coastal regions, focusing on the negative environmental impacts
but also looking at the social and economic context of marine
tourism and coastal zone management. The book sets tourism against
the background of the crisis facing our oceans due to climate
change and the effects of global warming. Tourism adds another
layer of challenges for our marine environment, and its rapid
growth globally means that these challenges have grown dramatically
in recent years. We have seen a number of trends in the
relationship between tourism and our oceans which pose a threat to
the future of the marine environment and coastal communities. The
Impact of Tourism on the Marine Environment looks at these trends
in detail and tackles issues such as: * A critical evaluation of
the cruise sector in terms of its impacts on the marine environment
and the coastal destinations visited by cruise ships. * Marine
wildlife watching and whether it is the enemy of conservation or
its ally * The overall impact of tourism on waste, litter and
plastics in the oceans. * The two-way relationship between climate
change and global warming and marine environments and coastal
tourist destinations * The effects of leisure activities such as
diving and sea angling on the marine environment including coral
reefs * The consumption of marine resources to meet tourist demand
for seafood and souvenirs that deplete ocean resources * Natural
and man-made disasters which have their origins in the oceans but
have an impact on coastal tourist destinations * The challenges
involved in the planning and management of tourism in marine
environments and the impacts of the construction of new resorts and
tourism infrastructure. * The debate over whether there is a need
for regulation to control the impacts of tourism on our oceans or
whether industry self-regulation is the best approach to take The
book includes nearly forty mini-case studies from around the world
which illustrate issues raised in the text. There are also two
important 'opinion pieces' from Professor Harold Goodwin and
Professor Michael Hall. A must-have text for students, researchers
and practitioners looking at issues of sustainable tourism, tourism
planning, environmental management, geography, marine conservation
and corporate social responsibility. Part of the Responsible
Tourism Series edited by Harold Goodwin, Director of Responsible
Tourism, Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan
University and John Swarbrooke, Associate Dean-International,
Plymouth Global, Plymouth University, UK Professor John Swarbrooke
is Associate Dean - International, at the University of Plymouth,
UK.
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