Tourism and Climate Change: Risks and OpportunitiesMultilingual Matters, 2007 M08 17 - 226 pages This book discusses the tourism-climate system and provides a sound basis for those interested in tourism management and climate change mitigation, adaptation and policy. In the first three chapters, the book provides a general overview of the relationships between tourism and climate change and illustrates the complexity in four case studies that are relevant to the wide audience of tourism stakeholders. In the following seven chapters detailed discussion of the tourism and climate systems, greenhouse gas accounting for tourism, mitigation, climate risk management and comprehensive tourism-climate policies are provided. This book compiles and critically analyses the latest knowledge in this field of research and seeks to make it accessible to tourism practitioners and other stakeholders involved in tourism or climate change. |
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... Communities free and independent tourists gross domestic product Global Environment Facility greenhouse gas global warming potential International Air Transport Association International Civil Aviation Organisation Hotels Environment ...
... communities and coastal ecosystems. For this purpose, the UNWTO is undertaking pilot studies with support from the Global Environmental Facility, under its Focal Area on Climate Change. The first pilot countries are Fiji and Maldives ...
... communities. The identification of 'climateÁtourism hotspots' is novel. They highlight where international organisations such as the WTO and WMO should focus their efforts when addressing the consequences of climate change for tourism ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Illustrative Material | 8 |
Tables | 21 |
ADB Asian Development Bank | 28 |
Case Studies of the TourismÁClimate System | 35 |
forcing WmÁ2 from subsonic aircraft emissions in 1992 | 75 |
GEF Global Environment Facility | 79 |
An Overview of Tourism | 83 |
European MUSST Project | 188 |
East Japan Railway Company | 192 |
Bad HofgasteinWerfenweng Austria | 201 |
Hong Kong Disneyland | 212 |
Tortoise Head Guest House Australia | 216 |
Carbon offsets and air travel | 219 |
Climate Changerelated Risks and Adaptation | 223 |
Adaptation for coastal tourism | 230 |
Hypermobility Á highfrequency longdistance travellers | 108 |
Are tourists sensitive to GHG emissions? | 111 |
Global and Regional Climate Change | 116 |
CH4 and NOx | 118 |
Recent changes in the observed climate | 121 |
Extreme climatic events in the European Alps | 123 |
Storylines for tourism based on the IPCC Scenarios | 129 |
El Nino and tourism | 137 |
days with high daily maximum Physiological Equivalent | 139 |
Methodologies for Greenhouse Gas Accounting | 144 |
Basic information needed for energy and GHG accounting | 147 |
Climate Change Mitigation Measures | 173 |
Auckland International Airport | 186 |
Climate change and wine tourism | 240 |
Using climate models to assess tourism destinations competitiveness | 247 |
Climate change and the ski industry | 258 |
Climate Change Policies and Practices for Tourism | 261 |
GWP global warming potential | 263 |
Kyoto mechanisms for mitigation | 269 |
Integrating adaptation and mitigation | 284 |
Methods to support participatory planning | 290 |
Conclusion | 301 |
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