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Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development highlights the
opportunities and risks of nature-based tourism for economic
development and explores selected strategies for sustainability.
The prospect of tourism growth is a potential source of major
challenges and considerable threats on a number of levels. The
concept of sustainable tourism development has thus become the
focus of the debate on this subject. This invaluable book aims to
provide useful analytical and empirical tools in support of the
idea that sustainability is not just about regulating and
controlling the negative impacts of tourism. It is also about
policies and actions that aim to reinforce the benefits and reduce
the costs of tourism, in order to make it more profitable now and
in the future. The chapters focused on economic modelling offer a
valuable overview of the main issues currently debated at the
academic level. The book also illustrates a number of empirical
instruments that will provide a useful reference for academics and
policymakers interested in how to put theory into practice. This
study will be of great value to economists, geographers and to
those who have a direct or indirect interest in tourism economics.
Tourism is both a growth industry and the world's number one export
earner. It is therefore no surprise that the role of tourism is
increasingly gaining prominence in the debate over how we can move
towards more sustainable patterns of development. An enormous
literature has emerged on the three pillars of sustainable
development - environment, culture and economics - and on how
tourism impacts and interacts with them. This timely and original
book is firmly grounded in the theory and application of economics,
in contrast to much of the previous research which has tended to
adopt an environmental or sociological perspective. Although
economics has increasingly become a technical subject, this
accessible book aims to present important economics results and
relate them explicitly to the policy debate. Using a coherent
analytical framework, this unique approach offers prescriptions for
moving tourism, and economic development more generally, closer to
a sustainable ideal. The authors begin by studying the
macroeconomic effect of tourism in terms of growth performance and
sources of growth. They also examine how the tourism-growth link is
affected by the role of imports in the economy, and how tourism
impacts upon land use. Further chapters investigate the important
issue of forecasting visitor numbers and explore the need for a
comprehensive accounting framework to take account of ecologically
sustainable tourism. The authors also examine the microeconomic
aspects of sustainable tourism and analyse the increasing
popularity of environmentally friendly holidays. Sustainable
tourism is a fast-growing subject and this book provides an
insightful introduction to the critical economic issues involved.
It will interest and inform a broad and varied readership including
researchers, students and policymakers interested in tourism
economics and tourism management, as well as environmentalists,
geographers and development scholars.
Following the presentation ofChina's Agenda XXIin 1994, the
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei began a fruitful collaboration with
the SSTC (State Science and Technology Commission) on Natural
Resource Accounting of the People's Republic of China. Among other
initiatives, the Fondazione organised a seminar held in Beijing in
March 1996, entitled "Resources Accounting in China." This volume
brings together 11 papers as the result ofthat seminar. Our main
attempt was to compare approaches and knowledge of specific issues
in this area. As far as the approach is concerned there appear to
be some interesting comparisons to be drawn considering the
authors' different fields of expenence. Seven papers are written by
Chinese participants and four by visiting experts from the West.
All the Chinese contributions point out the importance of the
environment in economic development and a determination to measure
the effects as a means to successful management of natural
resources. They concentrate on rather specific issues within the
constraints of the prevailing economic conditions where
identification and pricing of assets tend to be specified by
administrative norms. Although the general framework of the Chinese
approach tends to be scientific and administrative, all papers
contain interesting and useful statistical information. The papers
by visiting experts also stress the importance of taking into
account environmental aspects in deriving indicators relating to
economic development. In contrast to the Chinese contributions,
however, they tend to be more abstract and more clearly based on
economic theory.
This volume, which brings together papers from a seminar held in
Beijing in 1996, contains contributions written by Chinese
participants as well as by visiting experts from the West. The
different experience of the several authors is represented in the
unique balance of the book: all the Chinese contributions point out
the importance of the environment in economic development,
expressing a determination to measure effects as a means to the
successful management of natural resources. They concentrate on
rather specific issues within the constraints of the prevailing
economic situation, where identification and asset pricing tend to
be specified by administrative norms. Several of these papers
contain interesting and useful statistical information. The papers
by the visiting experts also stress the importance of taking
account of environmental aspects in deriving indicators relating to
economic development. All the papers reveal that work in this area
is still evolving very quickly, sometimes in unexpected directions.
This particular juxtaposition of approaches is a valuable record of
the situation at a particular point in time when concern about the
environment in China is developing rapidly.
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