Tourism and the Anthropocene [Hardcover]

This book brings the field of tourism into dialogue with what is captured under the varied notions of the Anthropocene. It explores issues and challenges which the Anthropocene may pose for tourism, and it offers significant insights into how it might reframe conceptual and empirical undertakings in tourism research. Furthermore, through the lens of the Anthropocene this book also spurs thinking of the role of tourism in relation to sustainable development, planetary boundaries, ethics (and what is framed as geo-ethics) and refocused tourism theory to make sense of tourisms earthly entanglements and thinking tourism beyond Nature-Society. The multidisciplinary nature of the material will appeal to a broad academic audience, such as those working in tourism, geography, anthropology and sociology.

Introduction: Tourism and the Anthropocene: An Urgent Emerging Encounter Edward H. Huijbens & Martin Gren   Part I: Tourism and tourists in the Anthropocene  2. Keeping tourism's future within a climatically safe operating spaceEke Eijgelaar, Bas Amelung& Paul Peeters  3. Undoing Iceland? The Pervasive Nature of the Urban Edward H. Huijbens, B?rbara Ma??es Costa & Harry Gugger  4. Loving nature to death: Tourism consumption, Biodiversity loss and the AnthropoceneC. Michael Hall Part II: Sustaining tourism in the Anthropocene  5. ANT, tourism and situated globality  looking down in the AnthropoceneGunnar Th?r J?hannesson, Carina Ren & Ren? van der Duim  6. Arctic whale-watching and Anthropocene ethics Roger Norum, Britt Kramvig & Berit Kristoffersen  7. Good vs. Bad Tourism: Homo ViatorS ResponsibilityinlÃ*