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The issue of maintaining a balanced relationship between tourism and the environment has received considerable attention since the 1970s. However, only in the 1980s and 1990s did it become a topic of systematic academic inquiry and research, distinguished from the broader area of the environmental impacts of recreation and leisure activities.
This volume dwells on the environmental and economic impacts of tourism and is divided as follows:
Part 1: Introduction and Overview
Part 2: Tourism and the Environment: General Considerations
Part 3: Regional Issues
Part 4: Economic Issues
Part 5: Policy Issues
The work is complemented by a subject index.
List of contents
1: Introduction.- 1. Tourism and the Environment: An Overview.- 2: Tourism and the Environment: General Considerations.- 2. Environmental Impacts of Tourism: A Framework for Analysis and Evaluation.- 3. Tourism and the Environment: Some Observations on the Concept of Carrying Capacity.- 4. Experimental Iconology - a Tool for Analysis for the Qualitative Improvement and Touristic Development of Places.- 3: Regional Issues.- 5. Rural Tourism and Rural Development.- 6. Regionalization of Tourism Activity in Greece: Problems and Policies.- 7. Tourism Development and the Natural Environment: a Model for the Northern Sporades Islands.- 4: Economic Issues.- 8. Appropriate Tourism in Mountain Areas.- 9. On-site Recreation Surveys and Selection Effects: Valuing Open Access Recreation on Inland Waterways.- 5: Policy Issues.- 10. Tourism Policy and Planning for Urban Quality.- 11. Tourism and the City: Some Guidelines for a Sustainable Tourism Development Strategy.- 12. Tourist Development and Environmental Protection in Greece.- 13. Tourism and the Environment-Impacts and Strategies.- 14. The Contribution of the Analysis of the Image of a Place to the Formulation of Tourism Policy.
