Description:
This book discusses the tourism-climate system and provides a sound basis for those interested in tourism management and climate change mitigation, adaptation and policy. In the first three chapters, the book provides a general overview of the relationships between tourism and climate change and illustrates the complexity in four case studies that are relevant to the wide audience of tourism stakeholders. In the following seven chapters detailed discussion of the tourism and climate systems, greenhouse gas accounting for tourism, mitigation, climate risk management and comprehensive tourism-climate policies are provided. This book compiles and critically analyses the latest knowledge in this field of research and seeks to make it accessible to tourism practitioners and other stakeholders involved in tourism or climate change.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
This book by Becken and Hay represents the most comprehensive synthesis of tourism and climate change issues thus far. Becken and Hay have made a significant contribution to the literature that will stimulate policy discourse and empirical research on the tourism-climate system. Highly recommended.
-- "Y.-F. Leung, North Carolina State University, Choice, February 2008"