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This book offers a comprehensive understanding of China’s tourism
development from 1992 onwards, focusing on the social-cultural
change that accompanied the rise of tourism. It examines both the
economic benefits and sociocultural impacts of tourism and argues
that tourism sustainability depends on a delicate balance between
economic and social-cultural interests which could manifest
differently among the stakeholders of various interests. It also
explores, through both theoretical and empirical analysis, how
travel connects people and places through the processes of tourist
imagination and consumption. The volume portrays how contemporary
discourses fuse with individual histories to formulate the ways in
which tourists understand China. It will be a useful resource for
students and scholars in human geography, tourism management,
leisure and recreation, and social sciences.
This book presents a selected literature review and case studies
for both physical and virtual water transfer. It offers an overview
to showcase the interprovincial physical and virtual water transfer
within China, and then demonstrates the effects of both approaches
in dealing with regional water scarcity; the three cases presented
in the Yangtze River Basin demonstrate the role of physical water
transfer in improving water quality and restoring water ecosystems;
while a Shanghai case highlights the impact of Shanghai's virtual
water import on water quantity and quality stress to other regions.
This book promotes systematic approaches combining both virtual and
physical water transfer solutions to deal with water quantity and
quality issues. The book is intended for senior undergraduates,
graduate students, lecturers and researchers in water management.
This book mainly provides the current status of water pollution
faced by China under rapid changing environment and the actions
that have been taken for prevention and treatment of water
pollution. It points out that the water pollution situation is
severe. Facing water pollution, China's experiences include several
aspects on source control and pollution interception, internal
nutrient removal of sediment, ecological restoration, and water
transfer policy. There exists both the opportunity and challenge
for the prevention and control of water pollution in China. The
book contains numerous charts and diagrams which further
illustrating China's paths to clean water.
Scholars of many persuasions recognize the experiential features of
geography, which have been largely overlooked in tourism
researches. Partially in response to this omission, this book
presents a phenomenological exploration of tourist travel
experience. By describing the experiences of two separate groups of
Canadian tourists travelling to and inside China, the study
examines the educational dimension of tourism. Phenomenology has to
do with the origin of our experiences, such as anxiety, behaviour,
religion, place and topophilia, which we cannot understand through
observation and measurement -- we must first live through them to
grasp these experiences as they really are. Therefore, in
decipering the meanings of tourism texts, phenomenology can be an
effective method as it allows us to contact phenomena while
actually experiencing them.
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