Tourism Governance: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781138790124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 284 str.

Bill Bramwell; Bernard Lane

Opis

This collection examines new and critical approaches to understanding the interrelationships between governance and sustainable development in tourism destinations. Power and politics are seen as central features of governance, and the contributors locate this subject in political economy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Critical research on the governance of tourism and sustainability  Bill Bramwell and Bernard Lane  2. Exploring social representations of tourism planning: issues for governance  Gianna Moscardo  3. A typology of governance and its implications for tourism policy analysis  C. Michael Hall  4. Governance, the state and sustainable tourism: a political economy approach  Bill Bramwell  5. Event tourism governance and the public sphere  Dianne Dredge and Michelle Whitford  6. Tourism governance and sustainable national development in China: a macro-level synthesis  Trevor Sofield and Sarah Li  7. Rethinking regional tourism governance: the principle of subsidiarity  Anne Louise Zahra  8. Death by a thousand cuts: governance and environmental trade-offs in ecotourism development at Kangaroo Island, South Australia  Freya Higgins-Desbiolles  9. Climate change pedagogy and performative action: toward community-based destination governance  Tazim Jamal and E. Melanie Watt  10. Global regulations and local practices: the politics and governance of animal welfare in elephant tourism  Rosaleen Duffy and Lorraine Moore  11. Adopting and implementing a transactive approach to sustainable tourism planning: translating theory into practice  Meredith Wray  12. Rethinking resort growth: understanding evolving governance strategies in Whistler, British Columbia  Alison M. Gill and Peter W. Williams  13. Policy learning and policy failure in sustainable tourism governance: from first- and second-order to third-order change?  C. Michael Hall

O autorze

Bill Bramwell is Professor of International Tourism Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and he has published widely on tourism policy and planning, tourism development in differing economic and political contexts, and sustainable tourism.

Bernard Lane is Visiting Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. He is a consultant on sustainable tourism development and management with extensive experience in Europe, Asia and Australia at national, regional and local levels.