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Esta publicación recoge una cincuentena de aportaciones referidas al turismo, al ocio y a los espacios de recreo. La potente capacidad transformadora relacionada con la actividad turística hace necesario debatir, no sólo sobre las características y problemáticas del desarrollo turístico de los últimos años, sino también sobre la virtualidad de las estrategias y actuaciones acometidas, con la finalidad de evaluar su impacto territorial, económico y social. Tomando los destinos turísticos como principal eje argumental, ponencias, experiencias de interés y comunicaciones, plantean las complejas relaciones e interdependencias entre turismo y territorio en los destinos urbanos, los espacios rurales/ interior y los litorales. Se trata, en suma, de una aportación, desde la Geografía, orientada a propiciar una reflexión serena sobre el papel del turismo en las dinámicas territoriales y sobre las características de los territorios turísticos que estamos construyendo en estos comienzos del siglo XXI.
En la actual etapa que venimos atravesando, de marcadas crisis ecológica, sanitaria, social y económica, se hace más necesaria que nunca una reflexión profunda para ofrecer alternativas con las que poder afrontarlas y encaminar el futuro con garantías, tanto el inmediato como el venidero. A pesar de inercias y contrapesos, la innovación vuelve a mostrarse como requisito indispensable en ese mundo en transición; de hecho, con numerosas transiciones en marcha, pero también frenos. Muchos desafíos, como se recoge en el mismo título, a los que dar respuesta con un adecuado modelo y estilo de desarrollo y progreso, que es imprescindible perfilar e ir concretando en una hoja de ruta haci...
El objetivo de este libro es ayudar a los estudiantes a adquirir los conocimientos básicos sobre las fuentes de información en distintos campos de la ciencia, a estimular su sentido crítico a la hora de evaluar la información que encuentra en la red y a reflexionar y conocer las ventajas de hacer un uso ético de la información así como a gestionar la información que se encuentra en ella. Contiene numerosos ejemplos y utilidades de software para optimizar el trabajo de búsqueda, recuperación y organización de la información que existe en internet.
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This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomic values of industrial sites and the use of tourism for the growth of the creative economy, and to better understand how the collective social memory and local identity connected to these sites have been shaped by different social groups over time. The volume presents a conceptual framework underpinned by case studies drawn from Asia, North America, Australasia and Europe and advocates the creation of mixed-use spaces and stakeholder collaboration to develop tourism at industrial heritage sites. These theoretical and practical perspectives will be of use to researchers and students of heritage tourism, urban and regional planning and tourism marketing.
In this 1994 book, Xavier de Planhol and Paul Claval, two of France's leading scholars in the field, trace the historical geography of their country from its roots in the Roman province of Gaul to the 1990s. They demonstrate how, for centuries, France was little more than an ideological concept, despite its natural physical boundaries and long territorial history. They examine the relatively late development of a more complex territorial geography, involving political, religious, cultural, agricultural and industrial unities and diversities. The conclusion reached is that only in the twentieth century had France achieved a profound territorial unity and only now are the fragmentations of the past being overwritten.
Dealing with tourism in the developing world, this book provides a contemporary analysis of the potential for tourism to work as a strategy for development. Tourism continues to develop rapidly in the Third World, and with it an increasing awareness of the impacts and dilemmas faced by the destination countries. Tourism for Development analyses key theories and debates surrounding tourism development in a user friendly style aimed primarily at under graduate students following Geography and Tourism Studies/Management courses. The book focuses on the positive, highlighting tourism practices which may offer a way forward in terms of promoting appropriate development in the Third World. The book is another strong addition to the successful Themes in Tourism series and will be equally useful to both tourism and geography students in a range of topics, including Development Studies, Planning and Resource Management.
The management of industrial heritage sites requires rethinking in the context of urban change, and the issue of how to balance protection, preservation/conservation, and development becomes all the more crucial as industrial heritage sites grow in number. This brings into play new challenges—not only through the known conflicts between monument preservation and contemporary architecture, but also with the increasing demand for economic urban development by reusing the built heritage of former industrial sites. This book explores the conservation and change of industrial heritage sites in transformation, presenting and examining ten European and Asian case studies. The interdisciplinary approach of the book connects a diversity of rationales and discourses, including monument protection, World Heritage conventions, urban regeneration, urban planning and design, architecture, and politics. This is the first book to deepen the understanding of industrial heritage site management as a networked, multi-dimensional task involving diverse social agents and societal discourses.
`A hopeful but nonetheless hard-hitting analysis of alternative economic spaces proliferating in the belly of the capitalist beast. In this book Leyshon, Lee and Williams convene fascinating studies of exchange, enterprise, credit and community. They invite us onto a new and promising discursive terrain where we can analyze, criticize and above all recognize actually existing economies of diversity in the wealthy countries of the West′ - J K Gibson-Graham, Australian National University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst In the context of problems in the `new economy′ - from dot.com start-ups, high-technology, and telecoms - Alternative Economic Spaces presents a critical evaluatio...
Environmental Interpretation is the first truly applied treatment of environmental communication written specifically for people with big ideas and small budgets. Drawing on 20 years experience and the successes of his colleagues worldwide, Sam Ham presents an unusually diverse collection of low-cost communication techniques that really work. More than 200 illustrations, photos, and technical insets provide simple instructions for designing and implementing effective education programs in forests, parks, protected areas, zoos, botanical gardens, extension and community programs, and in all kinds of agriculture and natural resource management programs. Aside from its step-by-step, "how-to" ap...