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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “laurent bourdeau”
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  • World Heritage Sites and Tourism

    Global and Local Relations

    Edited by Laurent Bourdeau, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Mike Robinson ...
    Series series Heritage, Culture and Identity
    Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage status brings a new dimension to the functioning of local communities and particularly through tourism. Too many tourists accentuated by the World Heritage label, or in some cases not enough tourists, despite anticipation of increased numbers, can act to disrupt and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • World Heritage, Tourism and Identity

    Inscription and Co-production

    Edited by Laurent Bourdeau, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Mike Robinson ...
    Series series Heritage, Culture and Identity
    The remarkable success of the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage is borne out by the fact that nearly 1,000 properties have now been designated as possessing Outstanding Universal Value and recognition given to the imperative for their protection. However, the remarkable success of the Convention is not without its challenges and a key issue for ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • Patterns of Commoning

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    What accounts for the persistence and spread of "commoning," the irrepressible desire of people to collaborate and share to meet everyday needs? How are the more successful projects governed? And why are so many people embracing the commons as a powerful strategy for building a fair, humane and Earth-respecting social order? In more than fifty original essays, Patterns of Commoning addresses these ... Read more

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  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    by Francesco Bandarin, Ron van Oers ...
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Read more

    $91.00 CAD

  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...
    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Read more

    $131.91 CAD

  • Tourism, Tourists and Society

    by Richard Sharpley ...
    Tourism, Tourists and Society provides a broad introduction to the inter-relationship between tourism and society, making complex sociological concepts and themes accessible to readers from a non-sociological academic background. It provides a thorough exploration of how society influences or shapes the behaviours, motivations, attitudes and consumption of tourists, as well as the tourism impacts ... Read more

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  • Global Tourism

    Edited by William F. Theobald ...
    Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human and environmental impacts of tourism development. That is why, as Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization, I am pleased to see the serious analysis of the problems and prospects of the ... Read more

    $159.39 CAD

  • Heritage Tourism

    by Hyung Yu Park ...
    Heritage tourism has become an increasingly significant component of the global tourism industry, particularly in countries striving to diversify away from sea, sand and sun. This growth has had profound influences on the presentation and representation of both tangible and intangible heritage within tourism context. The concept of heritage continues to evolve with its fast-changing political, ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Slum Tourism

    Poverty, Power and Ethics

    Edited by Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Edited by Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Heritage and Identity

    Engagement and Demission in the Contemporary World

    Edited by Marta Anico, Elsa Peralta ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Heritage and Identity explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representation of identities in contemporary societies, providing a comprehensive account of the diverse conceptions of heritage and identity across different continents and cultures.This collection of thought-provoking articles from experts in the field captures the richness and ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Heritage Studies

    Methods and Approaches

    Edited by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, John Carman ...
    This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the world, including the UK and USA. The challenge that the collection makes explicit is that Heritage ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD