Tourism and the Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9781138592261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str.

Martin Gren; Edward H. Huijbens

Opis

This book brings the field of tourism into dialogue with what is captured under the varied notions of the Anthropocene. It explores issues and challenges which the Anthropocene may pose for tourism, and it offers significant insights into how it might reframe conceptual and empirical undertakings in tourism research.

Spis treści

Introduction: Tourism and the Anthropocene: An Urgent Emerging Encounter   Part I: Tourism and tourists in the Anthropocene  2. Keeping tourism's future within a climatically safe operating space   3. Undoing Iceland? The Pervasive Nature of the Urban   4. Loving nature to death: Tourism consumption, Biodiversity loss and the Anthropocene  Part II: Sustaining tourism in the Anthropocene  5. ANT, tourism and situated globality – looking down in the Anthropocene  6. Arctic whale-watching and Anthropocene ethics   7. Good vs. Bad Tourism: Homo Viator’S Responsibility in Light of Life-value Onto-axiology  Part III: Tourism becomings in the Anthropocene  8. The movement heritage – scale, place, and pathscapes in Anthropocene tourism  9. Anthropocene ambiguities: Upscale golf, analytical abstractions, and the particularities of environmental transformation.  10. Mapping the Anthropocene and Tour-ism 11. Conclusions The Anthropocene and Tourism Destinations