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Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentialsand Possibilities?
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Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentialsand Possibilities?Second Edition
Stephen Wearing & John NeilUniversity of Technology School of Leisure, Sport
and Tourism Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
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Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ........................................................... ix
INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................... xi
CHAPTER 1 Departure: surveying the ground
The ecotourism alternative ........................................................... 2
The nature of ecotourism ............................................................. 6
Sustainable tourism: conserving natures base ............................... 8
Moving towards a definition ........................................................ 11
Further reading ......................................................................... 14
CHAPTER 2 If ecotourism is not just an activity but a philosophy, whichphilosophy
Human nature ........................................................................... 15
Exchanging value(s)................................................................... 17
Toward ecocentrism: modern roots .............................................. 20
Whose sustainability? ................................................................ 24
Ethics and (of) resource management.......................................... 28
Further reading ......................................................................... 31
CHAPTER 3 Tourism development: government, industry, policy and planning
Sustainable tourism development ............................................... 36
Planning and policy frameworks who is involved
and how? .................................................................................. 38
Government-led planning and policy initiatives ............................ 38
Integrated policy and planning.................................................... 42
Industry-led planning and policy ................................................. 46
Codes of practice....................................................................... 46
Compliance............................................................................... 51
Accreditation ............................................................................ 52
Cooperative government and industry initiatives:
community involvement and cooperative approaches .................... 54
Using policy to achieve best practice .......................................... 56
Zoning...................................................................................... 59
Further reading ......................................................................... 60 v