Archivos: Listings

This Solimar International toolkit includes two different publications developed with support of USAID aimed at linking tourism and conservation in a sustainable way including six conservation models that link sustainable tourism, biodiversity conservation, and community development and a framework for responding rapidly to crises originating for tourism and visitation.

This CREST report highlights case studies in the Caribbean to see how various tourism sectors both contribute to and are impacted by climate change and presents innovative tourism businesses that are providing solutions to addressing climate change.

This CREST and Business Expert Press book focused on how various marine recreation sectors are preparing for climate change and how to promote and practice sustainable tourism that provides economic opportunities while conserving the reefs, mangroves, and other marine ecosystems that protect and sustain Caribbean islands.

Turneffe Atoll is an integral part of Belize’s reef system as well as a global “hot spot” for marine biodiversity. This analysis, by the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST), examines key issues facing the new 325,000 acre Marine Reserve and the Reserve’s two main economic sectors: commercial fishing and tourism.

This collaborative WRI, WWF, UNGC, and CDP set of targets provide businesses with a clearly-defined path to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.

This UNEP action plan is for policy makers, destination planners and managers, and private sector industry stakeholders. It explains how to make the accommodation value chain more sustainable in Saint Lucia, reducing the negative impacts of tourism, such as marine pollution and environmental degradation, and its high demands on natural resources.

This article describes a community-based framework for combining different types of knowledge to address climate change. It builds on earlier work to develop and pilot a framework for addressing disaster risk reduction in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and looks at community participation in disaster risk reduction activities with a focus on Papua New Guinea.

This Plos One article compiled a globally-representative database of visits to Protected Areas (PAs) and built region-specific models predicting visit rates from PA size, local population size, remoteness, natural attractiveness, and national income to display the high value that PAs provide, and call for its increased investment and preservation.

This UNFCC agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. Implementation of the Paris Agreement requires economic and social transformation, based on the best available science and works on a 5- year cycle of increasingly ambitious climate action carried out by countries.

This Routledge handbook explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies inherent to tourism’s relationship with nature. It brings together leading specialists from range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on this complex relationship and future direction.