The footprint of Polar tourism : Tourist behaviour at cultural heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard.

The footprint of Polar tourism : Tourist behaviour at cultural heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard.

This thesis aims to describe and interpret the effects of tourism on historic sites in Antarctica and Svalbard (also known as Spitsbergen), and to assess the implications for management. Explorers, whalers, seal hunters, scientists and others have left many material remains in the Polar Regions that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roura, Ricardo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Havertown : Barkhuis, 2011.
Series:Circumpolar studies.
Subjects:
Tourism > Environmental aspects > Norway > Svalbard.
Tourism > Environmental aspects > Polar regions > Case studies.
Sustainable tourism > Polar regions.
Historic sites > Conservation and restoration > Polar regions.
Cultural property > Protection > Norway > Svalbard.
Environmental impact analysis > Norway > Svalbard.
TRAVEL > Australia & Oceania.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Cultural property > Protection
Environmental impact analysis
Historic sites > Conservation and restoration
Sustainable tourism
Tourism > Environmental aspects
Polar regions
Svalbard
Case studies
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Dedication; Preface; Abstract; 1 General introduction; 2 Research methods; 3 Regulating Antarctic tourismand the precautionary principle; 4 Monitoring the transformation of historic features in Antarctica and Svalbard: Local processes and regional contexts; 5 Antarctic scientific bases: Environmental and cultural heritage perspectives 1983-2008; 6 The polar cultural heritage as a tourism attraction; 7 From extraction to exhibition: Tourism at a disused marble quarry at Ny-London, Svalbard; 8 Cultural heritage tourism in Antarctica and Svalbard: Patterns, impacts, and policies.
  • 9 Overview and synthesis10 General conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Epilogue; Appendix 1
  • Acronyms and abbreviations; Appendix 2
  • Glossary; Appendix 3
  • Cultural heritage in the 2001 Svalbard Act; Appendix 4
  • Cultural heritage in the 1991 Antarctic Protocol; Appendix 5
  • List of interviewees.

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