Green Ice - Tourism Ecologies in the European High North (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book presents lively case studies of tourism developments in the European High North from diverse perspectives. It compares views of the changing political ecology of a fragile region shaped by climatic and cultural factors. In exploring the mutual relations between new developments in Arctic travel narratives and tourism practices. Green Ice: Tourism Ecologies in the European High North pays particular attention to the changing discourses that produce, and are in turn produced by, encounters between contemporary Arctic peoples and territories. Questions of gender and nationality are considered alongside a comparison of texts and practices in different languages, examining the politics of language and its significant role in tourism. This title pays attention to the changing symbolic value of Arctic discourses in environmental movements, in order to consider the close connections between global forms of environmentalist discourse and action and local cultural responses. An engaging and timely work, this book will be of great interest to scholars of Geography, Anthropology, and Arctic Tourism.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2017
First published:	2016
Editors:	Simone Abram • Katrin Anna Lund
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	121
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-58735-0
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General
LSN:	1-137-58735-0
Barcode:	9781137587350

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