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“martin mowforth”

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  • The Violence of Development

    Resource Depletion, Environmental Crises and Human Rights Abuses in Central America

    by Martin Mowforth ...
    This book examines the failure of 'development' in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of development funding and positive indicators of economic growth, poverty remains entrenched and violence endemic.Martin Mowforth shows how development is predicated on force and systematic violence, through which the world's most powerful governments, financial institutions and companies punish ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $91.99 USD

  • Tourism and Responsibility

    Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Martin Mowforth, Clive Charlton, Ian Munt ...
    This book discusses the responsibility, or otherwise, of tourism activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. It considers issues such as the reduction of poverty through tourism and the conflict between increasing volumes of air travel spent in our continuing search for pleasure and the resulting contribution to global warming.The authors believe that tourism can only be adequately assessed ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Portuguese in Canada

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    by Carlos Teixeira, Victor M.P. Da Rosa ...
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  • Governing Indigenous Territories

    Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    by Juliet S. Erazo ...
    Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective titles represents an enormous accomplishment; it also creates dramatic changes. Once an ... Read more

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  • Slumming It

    The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

    by Fabian Frenzel ...
    Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • 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

    $67.99 USD

  • 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

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  • Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations

    by Rachel Dodds, Sonya Graci ...
    Series series Tourism, Environment and Development Series
    Many of the world's islands are dependent on tourism as their main source of income. It is therefore imperative that these destinations are managed for long-term viability. The natural appeal of a destination is typically one of its main tourism related assets, yet the natural environment is also the feature most directly threatened by potential overexploitation.Sustainable Tourism in Island ... Read more

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  • Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development

    International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda

    Edited by David Leslie ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    The tourism industry has increasingly recognized and responded to growing environmental concerns. In recent years, there has been an emergence of a variety of categories of tourism considered more environmentally friendly: green, eco-tourism, and sustainable tourism. Much of the literature that has addressed these developments has been orientated to the destination locale or specific to a ... Read more

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  • Managing Coastal Tourism Resorts

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Dr. Sheela Agarwal, Prof. Gareth Shaw ...
    Series Book 34 - Aspects of Tourism
    The vast majority of existing academic research of coastal tourism resort management has been undertaken in northern and southern Europe at the expense of a wider global consideration. This book aims to address this deficit and develop a global perspective on the management issues facing coastal resorts. By drawing on examples, it incorporates a detailed analysis of a range of economic, socio ... Read more

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