New Issues in Polar Tourism Communities, Environments, Politics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: M<U+00fc>ller, Dieter K. (Editor), Lundmark, Linda. (Editor), Lemelin, Raynald H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Philosophy of nature.; Regional planning.; Endogenous growth (Economics).; Regional economics.; Human Geography.; Environment.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Economic Growth.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Philosophy of Nature.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5884-1

New Issues in Polar Tourism traces and analyzes a decade of growing interest in the polar regions, and the consequent challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in formerly remote and seldom-visited places. The book arises from the recently-formed International Polar Tourism Research...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: New Issues in Polar Tourism
• 2. Looking Back, Venturing Forward: Challenges For Academia, Community and Industry in Polar Tourism Research
• 3. What is Arctic Tourism, and Who Should Define It?
• 4. Narrative Frameworks of Consideration: Horizontal and Vertical Approaches to Conceptualising the Sub-Antarctic
• 5. Reaching Consensus on Antarctic Tourism Regulation
• 6. The Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessments on Visitor Activity in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica
• 7. German Tourism Activities in the Antarctic Area <U+0013> A Governmental Perspective
• 8. The Wild North <U+0013> Network Cooperation for Sustainable Tourism in a Fragile Marine Environment in the Arctic Region
• 9. Tourism Resolving Crisis? Exploring Tourism Development in Iceland in the Wake of Economic Recession
• 10. A (Ski) Trip into the Future - Climate Change and Winter Tourism in Polar Sweden in 2040
• 11. Conflicting Discourses in Tourism Development - A Case of Kilpisjr̃vi Village, Finnish Lapland
• 12. Will 'Free Entry into the Forest' Remain? Argumentation Analysis of Finnish and Swedish Discussions on Everyman's Rights
• 13. National Parks for Tourism Development in Sub-Arctic Areas <U+0013> Curse or Blessing? The Case of a Proposed National Park in Northern Sweden
• 14. Indigenous People: Discussing the Forgotten Dimension of Dark Tourism and Battlefield Tourism
• 15. New Issues in Polar Tourism: Conclusion
• Index.