Tourism and Climate Change - Risks and Opportunities

The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the latest knowledge in the field of tourism and climate change. It is aimed at tourism practitioners and those with an academic interest in the fields of tourism management and climate change mitigation, adaptation and policy.

List of contents

1 Introduction; 2 The Tourism-Climate System; 3 Case-studies of the Tourism-Climate System; 4 An Overview of Tourism; 5 Global and Regional Climate Change; 6 Methodologies for Greenhouse Gas Accounting; 7 Climate Change Mitigation Measures; 8 Climate Change-related Risks and Adaptation; 9 Climate Change Policies and Practices for Tourism; 10 Conclusion.

About the author

Susanne Becken is the Director of the Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT) and a Professor at Griffith University, Australia. She is also Adjunct Professor at Lincoln University, New Zealand. Her research interests include sustainable tourism, climate change, energy use and resource efficiency, resilience, and environmental policy. She has published widely in these areas and her most recent papers appear in the Journal of Travel Research, the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Annals of Tourism Research and Global Environmental Change.

Product details

• Authors: Susanne Becken, John E. Hay
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2007
• EAN: 9781845410674
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-067-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 690 g
• Series: Climate Change, Economies and; Climate Change, Economies and
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous