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Largely descriptive rather than prescriptive, Financing Change is the first study to examine questions that will become increasingly important as populations burgeon and the developing countries enter financial markets.

Services and the Green Economy addresses a significant gap in theknowledge and understanding of sustainable economic development.Bringingtogether a range of expert contributions the book analyses the role of servicesand service industries in the transition to a greener economy.

Financing Change -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development ( WBCSD) -- Executive Summary -- The Game -- Eco-efficiency and the Financial Markets -- Financial Markets and the Development Proces -- The Players -- The Company Leaders -- The Investors and Analysts -- The Bankers -- The Insurers -- The Accountants -- The Raters -- The Scorecard -- Appendix: Statement by Banks on the Environment and Sustainable Development -- Notes -- Glossary of Acronyms -- Selected Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index.

This is a timely publication examining the relationship between tourism and climate change. It is a detailed analysis and assessment offering both theoretical and practical approaches to the subject. It aims to bring together research on the implications of climate change on the tourism industry. The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the latest knowledge in the field of tourism and climate change. It is aimed at tourism practitioners and those with an academic interest in the fields of tourism management and climate change mitigation, adaptation and policy.

Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption. This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don’t. Arranged in four distinct parts, Sheller and Urry consider: Performing Paradise Performances of Global Heritage Remaking Playful Places New Playful Places. Incorporating a wide array of empirical research and innovative international case studies, this fascinating book illuminates the tourist performance phenomenon: from Eco-tourism on the beach to shopping in Hong Kong, from the making of 'Cool Reykjavik' to tourism in high-rise suburbs in Paris, and from Inca heritage to medical tourism. Edited by two world authorities in tourism studies, this revealing book deploys a range of theories related to the 'mobility turn' in the social sciences in order to analyze the contingent and networked nature of how places are stabilized as fit for playful performances. Well-written and researched, with coherent analysis and presentation, this book will appeal to academics, students and those interested in the complex character of global change. 1. Places to Play, Places in Play Part 1: Performing Paradise 2. Demobilizing and Remobilizing the Carribean Paradise 3. Islands in the Sun: Cyprus 4. Eco-Tourists on the Beach 5. Shifting the Beach: Surf, Sand and Bodies Part 2: Performances of Global Heritage 6. Little England's Global Conference Centre 7. Bodies, Spirits and Incas: Performing 8. On the Track of the Vikings 9. Art Exhibitions Travel the World 10. Reconstituting the Taj Mahal: Tourist Flows and Globalisation Part 3: Remaking Playful Places 11. The Paradox of a Tourist Centre: Hong Kong as a Site of Play and a Place of Fear 12. Barcelona's Games: The Olympics, Urban Design and Global Tourism 13. Tourists in the Concrete Desert 14. Favela Tours: Indistinct and Mapless Representations of the Real in Rio de Janeiro Part 4: New Playful Places 15. Playing On-line and Between the Lines: Round-the-World Websites as Virtual Places to Play 16. 'Let's Build a Palm Island!': Playfulness in Complex times 17. Atomica World: The Place of Nuclear Tourism 18. Death in Venice

This book is a must read for anyone with a long-term mindset about the management of tourism, since it is the first to examine in depth the effects of climate change on this sector and to consider how stakeholders should be responding. Dr. David B. Weaver, Professor of Tourism & Events Management School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism

Winner of the: 2010 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, sponsored by National Communication Association 2007 James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, sponsored by National Communication Association 2007 Best Book of the Year for Critical and Cultural Studies, sponsored by National Communication Association 2007 Christine L. Oravec Research Award, sponsored by Environmental Communications Division of the National Communication Association The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered “toxic tours,” non-commercial trips intended to highlight people and locales polluted by poisonous chemicals. Out of these efforts and their popular reception, a new understanding of democratic participation in environmental decision-making has begun to arise. Phaedra C. Pezzullo examines these tours as a tactic of resistance and for their potential in reducing the cultural and physical distance between hosts and visitors. Pezzullo begins by establishing the ambiguous roles tourism and the toxic have played in the U.S. cultural imagination since the mid-20th century in a range of spheres, including Hollywood films, women’s magazines, comic books, and scholarly writings. Next, drawing on participant observation, interviews, documentaries, and secondary accounts in popular media, she identifies and examines a range of tourist performances enabled by toxic tours. Extended illustrations of the racial, class, and gender politics involved include Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” California’s San Francisco Bay Area, and the Mexican border town of Matamoros. Weaving together social critiques of tourism and community responses to toxic chemicals, this critical, rhetorical, and cultural analysis brings into focus the tragedy of ongoing patterns of toxification and our assumptions about travel, democracy, and pollution.

The contribution of tourism to climate change, and the likely consequences of climate change for key tourist destinations, has been well reported and discussed. Yet, there is a lack of evidence-based systematic practical advice as to how the tourism industry should respond to the challenge of climate change. Building on a sound conceptual understanding of the links between climate change and tourism, this book shows how the tourism sector might best respond. It not only focuses on the roles of supportive policies and institutions in ensuring a strong \"enabling environment\" for practical responses, but also on the practical responses themselves. This practical approach is presented through a large number of case studies and examples which illustrate how policy and industry initiatives have been implemented in tourism, and if or why they were successful. The majority of examples come from places such as the Caribbean, Spain, the Maldives, Nepal, and the UK, as well as Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the Pacific. The examples are presented within an overall framework that facilitates the translation of adaptation and mitigation policies into practice. This book offers the tourism industry, students and academics the opportunity to advance from the earlier, more conceptual texts on tourism and climate change by taking a much more practical approach. Its global coverage, through the use of international case studies, fosters a cross-fertilisation of ideas and initiatives. This text provides a detailed analysis of best practices in the face of climate change, across countries and geographically diverse tourist destinations and operations.