Carbon Management in Tourism : Mitigating the Impacts on Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9780415566322 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 368 str.

Stefan Gossling

Opis

Climate change is one of the single most important global environmental issues facing the world today and is emerging as a major topic in tourism studies. As Tourism is one of the world's largest industries it, both contributes to, and will be notably affected by, climate change. Carbon Management in Tourism is a future necessity given the emerging global legal frameworks to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, growing costs of carbon and pro-environmentally orientated customers. Tourism, and in particular transports associated with tourism, must take responsive actions to enable travel and tourism to deliver the peak experiences that tourists seek, but with a lower carbon footprint. Carbon Management in Tourism is the first book devoted to tourism and carbon emission reduction conflict and importantly to showcase a wide range of practical mitigation measures that help to achieve a lower carbon tourism future.

Spis treści

1. Travel, Tourism and Carbon Management  2. Climate Change Mitigation: Reasons for Advocacy  3. Climate Change: The Physical Basis  4. Climate Change Mitigation  5. Tourism and Climate Change  6. Trends in Emission From Tourism  7. Understanding Emission Growth in Tourism  8. Mitigation: Systemic Considerations for Restructuring  9. Mitigation: Technology  10. Mitigation: Management  11. Mitigation: Education  12. Mitigation: Behavioural Change  13. Mitigation: Politics & Research  14. Planning for Change, Exploring Innovation

O autorze

Stefan Gössling is a Professor at the Department of Service Management, Lund University, and the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is also the research coordinator at the Western Norway Research Institute’s Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism.