Tourism and the Anthropocene

Herausgeber: Gren, Martin; Huijbens, Edward

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781138592261
• ISBN-10: 1138592269
• Artikelnr.: 52528489

Autorenporträt

Martin Gren is Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Edward H. Huijbens is a Research Professor at the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre, based at the University of Akureyri, Iceland.

Inhaltsangabe

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