Author: Jean Simonneaux
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Languages : fr
Pages : 487
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Le développement du tourisme en espace rural n'est pas le simple résultat d'un marché ; la dynamique du tourisme est le produit d'accords sur des enjeux individuels et collectifs de la part de multiples acteurs. La demande touristique est le résultat de conditions économiques et sociologiques : le niveau de vie, les rapports au travail et aux loisirs, les relations sociales, les attentes environnementales... Comprendre la complexité du phénomène touristique en espace rural nécessite une approche systémique dans laquelle nous utilisons des concepts économiques, sociologiques et géographiques : état de grandeur, représentations sociales, identité, patrimoine, développement rural... Notre démonstration se poursuit par une analyse détaillée des activités touristiques sur un espace donné du sud-ouest de la France : la basse Ariège. Désirs de liens sociaux, de distinction, de cadre naturel mais aussi de liberté vont expliquer, de la part des touristes, des comportements de «zappeurs» parfois en décalage avec le discours produit. Les composantes non-marchandes des produits touristiques sont déterminantes dans la qualité perçue par les touristes. L'offre touristique correspond à ces attentes par la diversité des produits proposés et s'appuie sur une identité territoriale homogène permise par la valorisation d'un patrimoine collectif. La régulation territoriale est indispensable au développement du tourisme rural car elle préserve sa diversité et donc sa différenciation et son attractivité. L'organisation de filière favorise la communication, la promotion et la qualité des prestations tangibles. Les formes de production et d'organisation territoriale du tourisme en espace rural contribuent à sa dynamique et constituent un avantage comparatif, non pas en terme de coût mais en terme de qualité.
Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521527316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: G. Le Strange
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107600146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 597
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Meticulously researched, this volume examines the Mesopotamia and Persia along with the nearer parts of central Asia.
Author: da Silva, Jorge Tavares
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799850544
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Though conflict is normal and can never fully be prevented in the international arena, such conflicts should not lead to loss of innocent life. Tourism can offer a bottom-up approach in the mediation process and contribute to the transformation of conflicts by allowing a way to contradict official barriers motivated by religious, political, or ethnic division. Tourism has both the means and the motivation to ensure the long-term success of prevention efforts. Role and Impact of Tourism in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation is an essential reference source that provides an approach to peace through tourism by presenting a theoretical framework of tourism dynamics in international relations, as well as a set of peacebuilding case studies that illustrate the role of tourism in violent or critical scenarios of conflict. Featuring research on topics such as cultural diversity, multicultural interaction, and international relations, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, government officials, international relations experts, academicians, students, and researchers.
Author: Michael Jones
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048199328
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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This important and insightful book provides, for the first time, a broad presentation of ongoing research into public participation in landscape conservation, management and planning, following the 2000 European Landscape Convention which came into force in 2004. The book examines both the theory of participation and what lessons can be learnt from specific European examples. It explores in what manner and to what extent the provisions for participation in the European Landscape Convention have been followed up and implemented. It also presents and compares different experiences of participation in selected countries from northern, southern, eastern and western Europe, and provides a critical examination of public participation in practice. However, while the book’s focus is necessarily on Europe, many of the conclusions drawn are of global relevance. The book provides a valuable reference for researchers and advanced students in landscape policies and management, as well as for professionals and others interested in land-use planning and environmental management.
Author: Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848136137
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.
Author: Charles B. Heiser
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806155671
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species. The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration; the Cucurbita gourds, including the buffalo gourd, the Turk's turban, the silver-seed gourd, and the Malabar gourd, all utilized as food, and the beautiful ornamental gourds; the loofah gourds, popular as cosmetic sponges; minor gourds, such as the snake, wax, bitter, teasel, and hedgehog, sometimes used as food or medicine; and gourds mentioned in the Bible. The second part takes up the bottle gourd, which has been used for thousands of years. Even today this gourd is almost indispensable in many parts of the tropics, where species are used to make containers, musical instruments, and clothing, as food and medicine, and in art. The book concludes with a discussion of the gourd in folklore and myth and an appendix on growing, hybridizing, and preserving gourds for decoration. Delightfully written for general readers, this book will also appeal to botanists, anthropologists, horticulturists, and everyone interested in plants or gardening.
Author: Ronald Niezen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520235564
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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4. Relativism and Rights
Author: Jarkko Saarinen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317966988
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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In 2000 United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs), committing the member nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of specific targets with a deadline of 2015. Related to the UN MDGs, tourism is increasingly seen as a promising tool for poverty reduction, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development, for example. Thus, the industry has become an important policy tool for community and regional development in many developing countries and the expectations for tourism and its social and economic outcomes have evolved to a high level. However, there are still many challenges to overcome in the relationship between tourism industry, development and poverty reduction. This book aims to discuss the promises, challenges and outcomes of tourism in development with a specific aim of drawing together research related to tourism and UN MDGs. The papers discuss what lessons can be learnt and conclusions drawn from the utilisation of tourism for development and poverty reduction. What emerges from this collection is a set of interesting results and notions which both support and challenge the connections between tourism and development and the new role of tourism in global development. This book is an extended version of a special issue published in Current Issues in Tourism.
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Publisher: PU Rennes
ISBN:
Category : Heritage tourism
Languages : fr
Pages : 186
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