Green ice : tourism ecologies in the European High North /: tourism ecologies in the European High North. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Simone Abram, Katrín Anna Lund, editors.
• Editors: Abram, Simone; Lund, Katrín Anna
• Contents: Green Ice; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Green Ice? Tourism Ecologies in the High North; The Voyage North; Becoming Ecological; Ethnographies of Tourism Ecologies; Arctic Natures and Peoples?; The Chapters; Notes; References; 2 Responsible Cohabitation in Arctic Waters: The Promise of a Spectacle Tourist Whale; Prologue: A Companion Worth Fighting For?; Introduction; The Spectacle Tourist Whale; The Whale as a Co-hunter; The Environmental Whale; The Invisible Whale and Glenn's Vanishing Act; Responsible Tourism and the Politics of Ontologies; Notes; References. 3 Chasing the Lights: Darkness, Tourism and the Northern LightsIntroduction; Managing Darkness; Being in Darkness; Experiencing the Lights in the Dark; Conclusion-Green Darkness; Notes; References; 4 Greenland, My Greenland-Accessing Greenlandic History, Identity and Nation-building through its Nation-branding Strategy, a Tourist Website and 247 Comments; Pioneering People; A Contested History; Mitgrønland.dk; Positioning the Comments; Conflicts in the Contact Zones; (Greenlandic) Postcolonial Nation-building and Reconciliation; Notes; References; 5 Afterword; Comparing Visions; Arctic Heat. The Rise of New Polar Actors-Implications for Tourism EcologiesPolar Worlds in the Anthropocene; Notes; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Springer Science and Business Media Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.47914; Social sciences; Tourism -- Europe, Northern; Human Geography; Ecology; Tourism; Environmental policy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General; Tourism; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Business & Economics -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy; Animal ecology; Service industries; Physical geography & topography; Central government policies; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography; Europe, Northern; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137587367; 1137587369
• Related ISBNs: 9781137587350; 1137587350
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2017).
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