Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the values and presuppositions that are associated with its own cultural origins. This book draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinations; the reciprocity...
Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the value...
Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the values and presuppositions that are associated with its own cultural origins. This book draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinations; the reciprocity...
Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the value...
Since the turn of the millennium, resistance to the liberal project of global governance has come to occupy centre stage in global and international politics. The Battle of Seattle, the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington and the Bush administration's ambivalent attitude towards multilateralism can all be thought of as conspicuous instances of the growing challenge to global governance. Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance provides a wide-ranging series of analyses of such challenges.
Since the turn of the millennium, resistance to the liberal project of global governance has come to occupy centre stage in global and international p...
'Nature Unbound' is an examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose.
'Nature Unbound' is an examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social ...
Through a series of case studies from around the world, Capitalism and Conservation presents a critique of conservation's role as a central driver of global capitalism.
Features innovative new research on case studies on the connections between capitalism and conservation drawn from all over the world
Examines some of our most popular leisure pursuits and consumption habits to uncover the ways they drive and deepen global capitalism
Reveals the increase in intensity and variety of forms of capitalist conservation throughout the world
Through a series of case studies from around the world, Capitalism and Conservation presents a critique of conservation's role as a central dri...
