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"New Issues in Polar Tourism" traces and analyzes a decade of
growing interest in the polar regions, and the consequent
challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in
formerly remote and seldom-visited places. The book arises from the
recently-formed International Polar Tourism Research
Network(IPTRN), and documents the outcomes of its 2010 conference,
held at Sweden s Abisko Scientific Research Station."
The book describes what these models are, what they are based
on, how they function, and then, most innovatively, how they can be
used to generate new useful knowledge about the environmental
system.
Discusses this generation of knowledge by computer models from
an epistemological perspective and illustrates it by numerous
examples from applied and fundamental research.
Includes ample technical appendices and is a valuable source of
information for graduate students and scientists alike working in
the field of environmental sciences.
Second homes - the cottage, the summer house, the bach - are an
important part of the tourism and leisure lifestyles of many people
in the developed world. Second homes are therefore an integral
component of tourism experiences in rural and peripheral areas.
Yet, despite their significance not only for tourism but also for
rural communities and the rural economy, relatively little research
has been undertaken on the topic until recent times. This volume
represents the first major international analysis and review of
second homes for over 25 years. It will provide a significant
resource for those interested in changing patterns of tourism and
leisure behaviour as well as the use of the countryside and
peripheral areas. The book describes the economic, social and
environmental impacts of second homes as well as their planning
implications and places such discussions within the context of
contemporary human mobility. The volume represents essential
reading for those interested in rural regional development
processes and the development of new rural leisure landscapes.
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