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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 context of the changing demographic profiles of
visitors and provides an interdisciplinary transnational appraisal
of mountain-based tourism in Asia based on national and
international statistics. The research combines specific case
studies at the individual country and destination level with
trans-regional trends, thereby offering analysis from both the
perspective of supply (parks, protected areas, and stakeholders)
and demand (mountain tourist market trends and segments). The book
is a useful resource for students and academics in tourism and
protected areas studies as well as social scientists and
policy-makers interested in Asian countries.
The Guangdong province is the forerunner of China's economic reform, it has developed rapidly in the last 20 years since opening up its economy to the outside world. This book covers the evolution of economic reform in Guangdong, its links to Hong Kong and other parts of China, and developmental strategies in different parts of Guangdong. The book analyzes the many factors that have contributed to economic reform and covers topics such as development of land, human resources, the agricultural sector, and industrialization, and reforms of state-owned enterprises and township and village enterprises.
This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable
development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism's
impact on residents and localities across the region by critically
debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the
global and local levels. Offering a myriad of case studies from a
range of different countries in the region, this book is
interdisciplinary in nature, thereby presenting a comprehensive
overview of tourism's current and future role in development.
Divided into four parts, it discusses the nexus of tourism and
development at both the regional and national levels, with a focus
on theoretical and methodological foundations, protected areas,
local communities, and broader issues of governance. Contributors
from within and outside of Southeast Asia raise awareness of the
local challenges, including issues of ownership or unequal power
relations, and celebrate best-practice examples where tourism can
be regarded as making a positive difference to residents' life. The
first edited volume to examine comprehensive analysis of tourism in
Southeast Asia as both an economic and social phenomenon through
the lens of development, this book will be useful to students and
scholars of tourism, development, Southeast Asian culture and
society and Asian Studies more generally.
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 context of the changing demographic profiles of
visitors and provides an interdisciplinary transnational appraisal
of mountain-based tourism in Asia based on national and
international statistics. The research combines specific case
studies at the individual country and destination level with
trans-regional trends, thereby offering analysis from both the
perspective of supply (parks, protected areas, and stakeholders)
and demand (mountain tourist market trends and segments). The book
is a useful resource for students and academics in tourism and
protected areas studies as well as social scientists and
policy-makers interested in Asian countries.
In the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are
frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity.
In Model Machines, Long Bui investigates what he calls Asian
roboticism or the ways Asians embody the machine and are given
robotic characteristics. Bui offers the first historical overview
of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans
through their conflation with the robot-machine nexus. He puts
forth the concept of the "model machine myth," which holds specific
queries about personhood, citizenship, labor, and rights in the
transnational making of Asian/America. The case studies in Model
Machines chart the representation of Chinese laborers, Japanese
soldiers, Asian sex workers, and other examples to show how Asians
are reimagined to be model machines as a product of globalization,
racism, and colonialism. Moreover, it offers examples of how
artists and everyday people resisted that stereotype to consider
different ways of being human. Starting from the early nineteenth
century, the book ends in the present with the new millennium,
where the resurgence of China presages the "rise of the machines"
and all the doomsday scenarios this might spell for global humanity
at large.
The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of
Vietnamese refugees In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism,
marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Although this
former ally of the United States has vanished from the world map,
Long T. Bui maintains that its memory endures for refugees with a
strong attachment to this ghost country. Blending ethnography with
oral history, archival research, and cultural analysis, Returns of
War considers Returns of War argues that Vietnamization--as Richard
Nixon termed it in 1969--and the end of South Vietnam signals more
than an example of flawed American military strategy, but a larger
allegory of power, providing cover for U.S. imperial losses while
denoting the inability of the (South) Vietnamese and other
colonized nations to become independent, modern liberal subjects.
Bui argues that the collapse of South Vietnam under Vietnamization
complicates the already difficult memory of the Vietnam War,
pushing for a critical understanding of South Vietnamese agency
beyond their status as the war's ultimate "losers." Examining the
lasting impact of Cold War military policy and culture upon the
"Vietnamized" afterlife of war, this book weaves questions of
national identity, sovereignty, and self-determination to consider
the generative possibilities of theorizing South Vietnam as an
incomplete, ongoing search for political and personal freedom.
This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable
development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism's
impact on residents and localities across the region by critically
debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the
global and local levels. Offering a myriad of case studies from a
range of different countries in the region, this book is
interdisciplinary in nature, thereby presenting a comprehensive
overview of tourism's current and future role in development.
Divided into four parts, it discusses the nexus of tourism and
development at both the regional and national levels, with a focus
on theoretical and methodological foundations, protected areas,
local communities, and broader issues of governance. Contributors
from within and outside of Southeast Asia raise awareness of the
local challenges, including issues of ownership or unequal power
relations, and celebrate best-practice examples where tourism can
be regarded as making a positive difference to residents' life. The
first edited volume to examine comprehensive analysis of tourism in
Southeast Asia as both an economic and social phenomenon through
the lens of development, this book will be useful to students and
scholars of tourism, development, Southeast Asian culture and
society and Asian Studies more generally.
In the past decade, our rapidly changing world faced terrorism,
global epidemics, economic and social strife, new communication
technologies, immigration, and climate change to name a few. These
fears and tensions reflect an evermore-interconnected global
environment where increased mobility of people, technologies, and
disease have produced great social, political, and economical
uncertainty. The essays in this collection examine how monstrosity
has been used to manage these rising fears and tensions. Analyzing
popular films and televisions shows, such as True Blood, Twilight,
Paranormal Activity, District 9, Battlestar Galactica, and Avatar,
it argues that monstrous narratives of the past decade have become
omnipresent specifically because they represent collective social
anxieties over resisting and embracing change in the 21st century.
The first comprehensive text that uses monstrosity not just as a
metaphor for change, but rather a necessary condition through which
change is lived and experienced in the 21st century, this approach
introduces a different perspective toward the study of monstrosity
in culture.
Vietnam has experienced rapid growth within its tourism industry
during the past decades. This growth is part of Vietnam's opening
economy allowing a wide range of forms of tourism. Vietnam Tourism:
Policies and Practices provides a comprehensive review of tourism
development in Vietnam. Part I outlines the history of tourism, the
role and involvement of public and private sectors in governance
and planning, and the markets for tourism. Part II offers analysis
and assessment of various types of tourism in Vietnam, including
marine and island, eco, heritage, dark and community-based tourism.
Part III centres on current operational issues of tourism, hotels
and events. The book provides an up-to-date analysis on Vietnamese
tourism policy, structure, governance, and operations as well as
various forms of tourism from both a theoretical and practical
perspective by: * providing a comprehensive review in a single
resource; * outlining public and private sector tourism; *
addressing Vietnamese structure, governance and planning of
tourism; * examining special interest tourism; * addressing current
issues of industry's operations and management; * embracing local
and global perspectives; * principles and practices applicable to
Southeast Asia. Written by scholars with extensive research
experience on tourism in Vietnam this book is a reliable source of
reference for students, researchers and industry practitioners who
are interested in modern tourism specifically in Vietnam and
Southeast Asia.
The Guangdong province is the forerunner of China's economic
reform, it has developed rapidly in the last twenty years since
opening up its economy to the outside world. This book covers the
evolution of economic reform in Guangdong, its links to Hong Kong
and other parts of China, and developmental strategies in different
parts of Guangdong. The book analyses the many factors that have
contributed to economic reform and covers topics such as
development of land, human resources, the agricultural sector and
industrialisation, and reforms of state-owned enterprises and
township and village enterprises. Consisting of eleven essays
written by government officials and executives from the Guangdong
province of China, this book offers a unique insight into the
economic development in Guangdong.
Building upon the book Disappearing Destinations (Jones and
Phillips 2010) and its conclusion that promoted the need to
recognize problems, meet expectations and manage solutions Global
Climate Change and Coastal Tourism explores current threats to, and
consequences of, climate change on existing tourism coastal
destinations. Part 1 of the book provides a theoretical platform
and addresses topics such as sustainability, tourism impacts,
governance trade and innovation and how the media addresses climate
change and tourism. It also assesses management and policy options
for the future sustainability of threatened tourism coastal
destinations. Part 2 presents case studies from all regions of the
world (Europe, The Americas, Asia, Africa and Australasia) which
synthesise findings to make recommendations that can be used to
promote strategies that ameliorate projected impacts of climate
change on coastal tourism infrastructure and in turn promote the
future sustainability of coastal tourism destinations. This is a
timely and informative text with appeal to researchers,
undergraduate and post graduate students of tourism management,
tourism planning, sustainable tourism development and leisure
management, coastal tourism/management, environmental
management/planning, geography, coastal zone management or climate
change studies.
The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of
Vietnamese refugees In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism,
marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Although this
former ally of the United States has vanished from the world map,
Long T. Bui maintains that its memory endures for refugees with a
strong attachment to this ghost country. Blending ethnography with
oral history, archival research, and cultural analysis, Returns of
War considers Returns of War argues that Vietnamization--as Richard
Nixon termed it in 1969--and the end of South Vietnam signals more
than an example of flawed American military strategy, but a larger
allegory of power, providing cover for U.S. imperial losses while
denoting the inability of the (South) Vietnamese and other
colonized nations to become independent, modern liberal subjects.
Bui argues that the collapse of South Vietnam under Vietnamization
complicates the already difficult memory of the Vietnam War,
pushing for a critical understanding of South Vietnamese agency
beyond their status as the war's ultimate "losers." Examining the
lasting impact of Cold War military policy and culture upon the
"Vietnamized" afterlife of war, this book weaves questions of
national identity, sovereignty, and self-determination to consider
the generative possibilities of theorizing South Vietnam as an
incomplete, ongoing search for political and personal freedom.
In the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are
frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity.
In Model Machines, Long Bui investigates what he calls Asian
roboticism or the ways Asians embody the machine and are given
robotic characteristics. Bui offers the first historical overview
of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans
through their conflation with the robot-machine nexus. He puts
forth the concept of the "model machine myth," which holds specific
queries about personhood, citizenship, labor, and rights in the
transnational making of Asian/America. The case studies in Model
Machines chart the representation of Chinese laborers, Japanese
soldiers, Asian sex workers, and other examples to show how Asians
are reimagined to be model machines as a product of globalization,
racism, and colonialism. Moreover, it offers examples of how
artists and everyday people resisted that stereotype to consider
different ways of being human. Starting from the early nineteenth
century, the book ends in the present with the new millennium,
where the resurgence of China presages the "rise of the machines"
and all the doomsday scenarios this might spell for global humanity
at large.
Good financial management is critical for the successful operation
of both private and governmental water utilities. This book
provides a complete information resource on sound financial and
accounting practices and procedures for water utilities.Intended
for financial staff, managers, and executives of water utilities,
the book covers these topics and more:Water utility
managementFunctions of financial managementStandardized methods of
accounting and reportingDeveloping projectionsBudgetingRates and
revenuesO & M expensesAssets and liabilitiesTaxesCapital
improvement planning and financingInternal controls and auditsThe
included electronic Appendices, which will be delivered to your My
Downloads, provide valuable support materials, including the
complete NARUC UniformSystem of Accounts for Class A Water
Utilities, and sample annual reports, interim financial reports,
10-K filing, and policy statements.
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