The Global Political Economy of the Environment and Tourism - Hardcover

Kütting, G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230246249 ISBN 13: 9780230246249

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

Tourism and the social organization of leisure are causing environmental problems for coastal communities dependent on tourism for economic survival. It is the power in the global political economy and the local and global environment-society relations that affect these remote areas. Bringing together sub-disciplines from global political economy to political ecology, this book analyzes the consequences of social and economic policies in global institutions and industrialized countries on particular locales outside the centre. It makes a case for studying the role of environmental values in global environmental governance. With the focus on the underlying structures of the political economy and its social and environmental consequences, Kütting shows that global linkages can have dramatically different results even in supposedly similar situations. This illustrates the importance of historical and socio-structural factors, but also how environmental values can actually be more important than environmental law.

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This book examines power in the global political economy and how local and global environment-society relations play out in coastal communities dependent on tourism for economic survival

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230246249
• ISBN 13: 9780230246249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 203