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Geotourism [electronic resource] : the tourism of geology and landscape / edited by David Newsome and Ross K. Dowling.
ISBN:
9781906884925
Title:
Geotourism [electronic resource] : the tourism of geology and landscape / edited by David Newsome and Ross K. Dowling.
Author:
Newsome, David, 1951-
Publication Information:
Oxford : Goodfellow Publishers Limited, 2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (258 p.)
General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents:
1 Setting an agenda for geotourism; David Newsome and Ross Dowling; 2 The significance of aesthetic landscape appreciation to modern geotourism provision; Thomas A. Hose, Buckinghamshire New University, UK; 3 Australia's geological heritage: a national inventory for future geoparks and geotourism; Bernard Joyce, University of Melbourne, Australia; 4 Centralized data management approaches in geotourism: a view from Finland; Ari Brozinski, University of Turku, Finland; 5 Promoting geotourism: a case study from Northeast Iceland, John S. Hull, New Zealand Tourism Research Institute/Icelandic Tourism Research Centre

6 The Australian Alps: opportunities and challenges for geotourism; Pascal Scherrer, Edith Cowan University, Australia and Catherine Marina Pickering, Griffith University, Australia; 7 Reconsidering the boundaries and applications of Geotourism - lessons learnt from tourism at Mount Vesuvius; Jonathan Karkut, London Metropolitan University, UK; 8 Management of geotourism stakeholders - experiences from the Network History of the Earth, Christof Pforr, Curtin University of Technology, Australia and Andreas Megerle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

9 Geotourism in the Hawaiian Islands; Lisa M. King, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia; 10 The Cretaceous fossil sites of South Korea: identifying geosites, science and geotourism; In Sung Paik, Pukyong National University, Korea,; Min Huh, Chonnam National University, Korea,; Hyun Joo Kim, Pukyong National University, Korea,; Sook Ju Kim, Pukyong National University, Korea, and David Newsome, Murdoch University, Australia

11 Geotourism and geotourist education in PolandTadeusz Slomka and Wojciech Mayer, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Poland; 12 Geotourism product interpretation: Rangitoto Island, Auckland, New Zealand; Christian Wittlich, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany and Sarah Palmer, Murdoch University, Australia; 13 Geotourism potential in North Carolina: perspectives from interpretation at state parks; Stacy Supak and Yu-Fai Leung, North Carolina State University and Kevin Stewart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

14 Interpretation rocks! Designing signs for geotourism sites, Karen Hughes and Roy Ballantyne, School of Tourism, University of Queensland; 15 The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site: understanding the nature of geotourism; Sally King, Anjana Ford, Richard Edmonds, Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, United Kingdom; 16 USA scenic byways - connecting people to places; Judy Walden, Walden Mills Group, Wesley Hill, the Geological Society of America and Sally Pearce, Scenic Byways Program Coordinator, State of Colorado; 17 The UNESCO global network of national geoparks, Patrick J. Mc Keever, Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Nickolas Zouros, University of the Aegean, Greece, Margarete Patzak, UNESCO, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences and Jutta Weber, Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald, Germany
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Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
Oxford : Goodfellow Publishers Limited, 2010.