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Mountaineering Adventure Tourism and Local Communities
Michal Apollo, Viacheslav Andreychouk
This timely book explores how hiking, trekking and climbing mountains, increasingly popular leisure activities, can stimulate change and create opportunities for sustainable development. Using empirical evidence from interviews held in t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Modern Guide to Tourism Economics
Edited by Robertico Croes, Yang Yang
This Modern Guide captures the evolution of foundational tenets, theories, frameworks and models that buttressed tourism economics into an evolving discipline, shining light on both new and old approaches. It systematically examines curr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation
Edited by Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack, Christine Unrau
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-SA 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This book examines the role of imagination in initiating, contesting, and changing the pathways... -
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Teaching Tourism
Edited by Johan Edelheim, Marion Joppe, Joan Flaherty
Tourism as an activity is increasingly being criticised for its exploitative and extractive industrial approaches to business. Yet, it has the power to transform and to regenerate societies, cultures and the environment. The desire to ex...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society
Edited by Steve Matthewman
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. With contributions from leading experts in the fields of anthropology, communications, disas...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China
Zhu Qian
Addressing fundamental questions surrounding the critical changes affecting China’s urban landscape, social organization and community governance, Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China thoroughly reviews the reform of propert...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What is Possible
James O. Fiet
Engaging and accessible, The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What is Possible examines the systematic practice of poverty alleviation. Using the science of informational economics (IE), based on leveraging specific...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Policy in Changing European Societies
Edited by Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A. Yerkes
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book provides a cutting-edge, in-depth account of social policy research today, how we got here, and where...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Rethinking Agricultural and Food Policy
Wyn P. Grant
This visionary book takes stock of the urgent challenges facing food chains globally and provides a critical evaluation of radical new thinking and perspectives on agricultural and food policy. Wyn Grant investigates the principal driver...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism
Edited by Maria Gravari-Barbas
This timely Research Agenda moves beyond classic approaches that consider the relationship between heritage and tourism either as problematic or as a factor for local development, and instead adopts an understanding of heritage and touri...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South
Edited by Laura Alfers, Martha Chen, Sophie Plagerson
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline. Illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust, So...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Local Maladies, Global Remedies
Everaldo Lamprea-Montealegre
This forward-looking book provides an in-depth analysis of the major transformations of the right to health in Latin America over the past decades, marked by the turn towards the pharmaceuticalisation of health care. Everaldo Lamprea-Mon...eBook:Find out more$40.00