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Providing a thorough examination of the threats posed to destinations by tourism, this comprehensive text discusses how popular and fragile destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef could become severely damaged and forced to close to tourists if current tourism trends continue. The consequences of tourism growth, predicted changes, and management and policy responses are reviewed. The book will explore tourism in the context of climate change and vulnerable environments, exploring the situation at local level and in a wider perspective using international case studies throughout and providing future recommendations. It will be an essential text for researchers, policymakers and students in tourism, ecotourism, environmental conservation, planning, coastal management and engineering, climate change and marine conservation.
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Disappearing Destinations examines the future ecological and physical resiliency of shorelines, which currently are besieged by the conjoined impacts of tourism growth and global climate change. The authors of this collection of papers review the likely consequences of these anthropogenic forces on coastal zones, offering an assortment of management strategies and policy initiatives designed to mitigate future environmental threats. The first seven chapters deal with climate change and its challenges for tourism, risk management, knowledge gaps, law, the media, and research agendas. The subsequent ten chapters review the current state of and offer possible amelioration schemes for specific coastal localities (in the Mediterranean, the UK and Ireland, the US, Southeast Asia, Australia, Antarctica, the Azores, and the Balearic Islands). The final chapter offers a summary and a reflection of the issues and solutions posed by the various papers. The perspective brought out in the book and the reference lists are vital for land use planners, conservationists, managers, and policy personnel. However, the breadth, depth, and clarity of the 18 chapters are uneven, as is commonly the case in volumes that offer a global, multiauthored, multispecialist perspective. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. P. R. Pinet Colgate University
Table of Contents
Contributors | p. vii |
About the Authors | p. ix |
Preface | p. xvii |
Foreword | p. xix |
Acknowledgements | p. xxii |
1 Introduction - Disappearing Destinations: Current Issues, Challenges and Polemics | p. 1 |
2 Climate Change and its Impacts on Tourism: Regional Assessments, Knowledge Gaps and Issues | p. 10 |
3 Managing the Coastal Zone: Learning from Experience? | p. 30 |
4 Definitions and Typologies of Coastal Tourism Beach Destinations | p. 47 |
5 Climate Change: Risk Management Issues and Challenges | p. 66 |
6 Climate Change - Law, Environment and Tourism | p. 82 |
7 Climate Change, Tourism and the Media: Developing a Research Agenda | p. 90 |
8 Climate Change and the Mediterranean Southern Coasts | p. 99 |
9 Climate Change and Coastal Tourism in the Azores Archipelago | p. 111 |
10 Climate Change and Coastal Tourism in Ireland | p. 125 |
11 Climate Change-Coral Reefs and Dive Tourism in South-east Asia | p. 144 |
12 Tourism and Climate Impact on the North American Eastern Seaboard | p. 161 |
13 Would You Like Ice With That? Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change | p. 177 |
14 UK Coastal Tourism Destinations-Assessment of Perceived Climate Impacts: Issues for Destination Management, Local Governance and Public Policy Making | p. 191 |
15 Grand Isle, Louisiana: a Historic US Gulf Caost Resort Adapts to Hurricanes, Subsidence and Sea Level Rise | p. 203 |
16 Impact of Climate Change on Island Tourism-the Balearic Islands: Impacts, Vulnerability and Critical Management Issues | p. 218 |
17 The Impact of Climate Change on Reef-based Tourism in Cairns, Australia-Adaptation and Response Strategies for a Highly Vulnerable Destination | p. 233 |
18 Disappearing Destinations: Recognizing Problems-Meeting Expectations-Delivering Solutions | p. 254 |
Index | p. 269 |