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For many people, holidays are an increasingly central feature of contemporary western society. The tourism industry has expanded rapidly since 1950, but this book poses the significant question of consequent environmental impacts: are environments being benefited or damaged, by the tourist who visit them? A well-balanced introductory text, this topical book on the relationships between tourism, society and the environment, examines 'tourism' and 'environment' in detail, and gives a historical overview of the growth of the tourism industry. It discusses how the tourism industry markets physical and cultural environments to be consumed by the tourist, and the consequences of the tourism they then attract. It explores: * how the economics of tourism can be adopted in a positive way to aid conservation * whether the concept of sustainability can be applied to tourism* provides a critique of the 'new' forms of tourism, that have developed in recent years. An extensive range of international case studies from both the developed and developing world are used to illustrate the theoretical ideas presented, and to aid the student, it includes end of chapter summaries, further reading guides and boxed vignettes focusing on contemporary environmental issues and debates.

Discusses the opportunities and constraints that environmental systems place upon human systems and suggests environmental policy is a potential way to modify the operation of human systems so that they function within environmental constraints

An introduction for students with little or no legal background, to the role of law in environmental protection. It also explains how strategies from the fields of ethics, science, economics and politics can further an understanding of the proper form and content of environmental law itself.

Few developments in 20th century thought owe more to the power of the written and visual image than the environmental movement. This introductory guide through the representations of the environment found in everyday life encounters explains how to interpret historic and contemporary representations and explores major themes in their development.

Written in an accessible way for those without a background in philosophy, this text examines ways of thinking about ourselves, nature and our relationship with nature.

Presents an introduction to the many layers of the 'human urban environment'. This book examines a range of issues and elements that make-up the urban environment, including the consumption of resources, population pressures, and the pattern of urban development.

Introduces readers to environmental problems by presenting, and then challenging, two approaches to environmental decision-making, one from environmental economics, the other from environmental philosophy. This book examines the implications of this approach for policy issues such as biodiversity conservation and sustainability.

This book makes fundamental physical concepts intelligible to a non-scientific audience. The importance of physics is emphasised by its application to real environmental problems and the concepts are described qualitatively.

Explores how business and the environment interact. It assumes no previous knowledge of business studies and includes boxed case-studies ranging from local enterprise to multinational companies.

An introduction to the sociological study of the environment. It emphasises the ways in which our conceptualisation of the relationships between environments and human societies differ historically and cross-culturally.

Presents an introduction to the inter-relationship of food and the environment. This title intends to bring to our attention the multiplicity of linkages and interconnections between what we eat and how this impacts on the earth's resources.

Updated to reflect new research and developments, and with original international case studies, this introductory text brings together the theory and practice that make up 'biodiversity' and 'conservation'.

As environmental issues move to the centre of the political debate, more attention is being focused on the role our economy has played in creating the ecological crisis, and what a sustainable economy might look like. This book offers an insight into the history of thinking that has linked economy and environment.

"This completely revised second edition of Gender and Environment explains the inter-relationship between gender relations and environmental problems and practices, and how they affect and impact on each other"--

Introduces the ways in which politics and policy respond to the diverse challenges of environmental problems. Outlining the position of politics within an interdisciplinary environmental focus, the book examines the full range of green politics.

Evidence of climate change, resource shortages and biodiversity loss is growing in significance year by year. This book explains how policy can respond and bring about sustainability in individual lifestyles, corporate strategies, national policies and international relations. It discusses the interaction between environmental and human systems.

Uses global case studies to examine technological solutions to energy-related environmental problems and suggests that social, economic and political solutions may be needed to avoid serious future environmental damage.

Offers a thematic centred approach, which serves as a guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another including examinations of the works of the key theorists such as Marx, Mill, Habermas, and Adorno.