ISSN 1108-8931

INTERNATIONAL ECOTOURISM MONTHLY

Year 6 - Issue 66

Sponsored by: Zante Feast Discovery Holidays, Purple Valley Yoga Centre, Hana Maui Botanical Gardens, Jorth Consult Limited

(a) Free Downloadable Articles & Reports

Tourism Risk Management for the Asia Pacific Region
by APEC International Centre for Sustainable Tourism (AICST)
Detailed guide (122 pages) written for the private sector, on how to manage crises & disasters, prepared before the Tsunami disaster, that is very relevant now. Includes a chapter on Media & Information Management. Notably, "Tidal waves" are mentioned just once, fleetingly, in connection with Australian Aid to Papua New Guinea. Download at:
http://tinyurl.com/5hn9j

Skills for Site Managers in Central and Eastern Europe
Eurosite, the largest network of organisations devoted to nature conservation management across Europe, launched a series of programmes in the 1990's focusing on building capacity in site management for nature conservation. "Nature Management Skills for Natural Site Managers in Central and Eastern Europe", the most recent of these programmes, started in September 2000 and ran until May 2004.The target group was both governmental and non-governmental nature conservation management organisations from most Central and Eastern European Countries. Download at:
http://www.eurosite-nature.org/article.php3?id_article=230 

(b) Other Articles & Reports

"'Without co-ops there would be no forests!"
Barbara A. Cellarius, Conservation & Society 2 (1, 2004) : 51-73

Following Bulgaria's post-socialist restitution of formerly private forests, cooperatives have widespread support among residents of the central Rhodope mountains as a way to manage the newly re-privatized resource. This support occurs despite privatization programmes designed to foster individual private ownership and a history of socialism, which might bias people against cooperative institutions. Historical memory prevails of pre-socialist forestry cooperatives in the region as valued community institutions that supported community projects, produced income for forest owners, provided jobs, and managed the forests efficiently and transparently.

"Environment compliance in Italy and Greece : the role of non-state actors" 
Charalampos Koutalakis, Environmental Politics 13 (4, 2004) : 754-774

Both Italy and Greece experience considerable problems in adjusting to the underlining logic and the precise requirements of EU environmental policies. The article challenges the explanation that non-compliance is due to weakness of civil environmental activism, offers evidence of high levels of grassroots environmental mobilisations, and suggests a number of empirical indicators related to the use of opportunities offered by EU institutions, such as the complaints procedure.

(c) New Books

Sustainable Tourism
Editors: F.D. PINEDA, Complutense University, Spain and C.A. BREBBIA, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK.
Publisher: WIT PRESS, UK

In "Sustainable Tourism" the contributors adopt a multi-disciplinary approach designed to foster greater understanding and collaboration between scientists and social science experts, practitioners and policy makers. Papers are grouped under the following headings: Tourism Impact; Tourism Strategies; Sustainable Tourism; Ecotourism; Cultural Tourism; Coastal Issues; Tourism and Protected Areas; Tourism, Infrastructure, Transport and Hotels; Surveys and Analysis; IT in Tourism. "Sustainable Tourism" is the ninth volume in the WIT Press series "The Sustainable World".

ISBN: 1-85312-724-8, Pages: 384pp, Price: £124.00/US$198.00/Euro186.00
Details of contents can be found at: http://www.witpress.co.uk/contents/c7248.html

To Order / More Details at:
http://www.witpress.com/acatalog/7248.html

(d) Journals & Magazines

Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education
Latest issue (free access) at:
http://www.hlst.ltsn.ac.uk/johlste/vol3no2/contents.html 

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