Sharpley Richard (University Of Central Lancashire Uk) - Tourism Development And The Environment: Beyond Sustainability? - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism development over the last two decades. It extends the sustainable tourism debate beyond the arguably managerialist 'blueprint and destination - focused approach that continues to characterise even the most recent 'sustainability agenda within tourism development. Reviewing the evolution of the sustainable tourism development concept its contemporary manifestations in academic literature and policy developments and processes the author compares its limitations to prevailing political - economic socio - cultural and environmental contexts. He then proposes alternative approaches to tourism development which nevertheless retain environmental sustainability as a prerequisite of tourism development. This book also acts as an introduction to the Earthscan series Tourism Environment and Development. About the series: Tourism Environment and Development aims to explore within a variety of contexts the developmental role of tourism as it relates explicitly to its environmental consequences. Each book will review critically and challenge 'traditional perspectives on (sustainable) tourism development exploring new approaches that reflect contemporary economic socio - cultural and political contexts.
Title: Tourism Development And The Environment: Beyond Sustainability?
Author(s): Sharpley Richard (University Of Central Lancashire Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781844077335
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 8/26/2009
Series: Tourism, Environment and Development Series
Category: Sports & Outdoor Recreation