Rainforest Tourism, Conservation and Management

Challenges for Sustainable Development
Herausgeber: Prideaux, Bruce

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion. Yet they have a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and providing other ecosystem services. As the term is used in this book, rainforests include both temperate and tropical, although the emphasis is on tropical rainforests. Rainforests are also attractive tourist spaces and where they have been used as a tourism resource have generated significant income for local communities. However not all use of rainforests as a tourism resource has been sustainable. This book argues that sustainability must be the foundation on which tourism use of this complex but ultimately fragile ecosystem must be built upon. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective, incorporating rainforest science, management and tourism issues. The book is organized into four sections commencing with Rainforest Ecology and Management followed by People and Rainforests, Opportunities for Rainforest Tourism Development and finally Threats to Rainforests. Each major rainforest region is covered, including the Amazon, Central America, Africa, Australia and south-east Asia, in the context of a specific issue. For example rainforests in Papua New Guinea are examined in the context of community-based ecotourism development, while the rainforests in Borneo are discussed in an examination of wildlife issues. Other issues covered in this manner include governance, empowerment issues for rainforest peoples and climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9780415635820
• ISBN-10: 0415635829
• Artikelnr.: 38018733

Autorenporträt

Bruce Prideaux

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Tourism in Rain Forest Regions 1. Factors Governing the Development
of Tourism in Rainforest Regions Bruce Prideaux 2. Tropical Rainforest
Ecology: Implications for Tourism Development Bruce Prideaux 3. National
Parks, Rainforests and Tourism in Australia: An Historical Perspective
Warwick Frost Part 2: Threats to Rainforest Tourism 4. Climate Change
Impacts and Response Strategies for Rainforest Tourism: Cairns Case Study
Robyn F. Wilson 5. Climate Change and Rainforest Tourism in Australia
Stephen M. Turton 6. Trees, Tourists and Trade-offs: The Political Ecology
of Rainforest Tourism, Forest Clearance and Biodiversity Conservation in
Madagascar Ivan R. Scales Part 3: The Development and Management of
Rainforest Experiences 7. The Lamington National Park: A Contrasts Approach
to Rainforest Tourism Research Noel Scott, Don Getz, Steve Noakes and Eric
Laws 8. Visitor Motivations, Expectations and Satisfaction in a Rainforest
Context: Implications for Tourism Management Jennifer L. Hill and Georgina
Gough 9. Ecotourism: A New Challenge for Protected Rainforest Areas in
Chile Mirko Vera Campos, Noel Scott and Noreen Breakey 10. Enabling
Ecotourism: Principles, Challenges and Achievements from Tambopata, Peru
Jennifer Hill, Ross Hill, Nicolette de Sausmarez 11. Developing Backpacker
Tourism in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Adding Value to the Forest
Cristina Rodrigues and Bruce Prideaux 12. The Use of Mayan Rainforests for
Ecotourism Development: An Empowerment Approach for Local Communities
Adrian Mendoza-Ramos and Bruce Prideaux 13. Opportunities for Developing
Tourism in Cockpit County, Jamaica Novadene Miller 14. Community Based
Ecotourism: Opportunities and Difficulties for Local Communities and Link
to Conservation Hana Sakata and Bruce Prideaux 15. Rainforests and Rural
Village Ecotourism Venture in Papua New Guinea: A Case Study Grace Guaigu
16. Indigenous Peoples and Rainforest Tourism: Canopy Walkways as Tourist
Attractions Heather Zeppel Part 4: Wildlife and Rainforest Tourism 17.
Rainforest Wildlife: A Key Element in Sabah's Destination Appeal Fiffy
Hanisdah Saikim and Bruce Prideaux 18. Implications of Invasive Alien
Species for Rainforest Tourism: A Case Study on Feral Pigs in Australia's
Wet Tropics World Heritage Area Kana Koichi 19. Rainforest Primate Tourism
in Uganda: Successes, Challenges and the Future Dan Musinguzi, Eddy K.
Tukamushaba, Celestine Katongole and Joseph Obua 20. The Complexities of
Community Based Tourism: how External Forces Influence the Sustainability
of Bird Watching Tourism in the Remote Arfak Mountains of West Papua Sharon
Harwood and Richard Noske 21. Findings and Research Issues Bruce Prideaux