A guide to outdoor exploration and recreation activities in North America offers information on the plants and animals that inhabit each place and advice on equipment, clothing, and safety.
Conservationists and government planners cite many reasons that ecotravel to protected areas can be advantageous. They believe ecotravel is a subjectively healthier kind of tourism that attracts desirable visitors.
The Earth Journal Guide to Ecotravel: 100 Unforgettable Adventures Throughout the World, where the New Ecotraveler Will Find the Rewarding...
In A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines, Baskin (2002) suggests that the costs of damage from such invasives range from $100 to $200 billion annually. David Quammen (1998) first coined the term “Planet of Weeds” to describe the takeover of ...
Ecotravel
Tourism And Ecotravel
Eco-Travel New Mexico is the essential take-along companion to sustainable travel in New Mexico, on the main trails and off the beaten path. Ashley M. Biggers’s guide delves into the...
Post-Anthropocentric Travelling Hannah Arendt, in her prologue to The Human Condition (1958), takes the launch of the Sputnik satellite into space in 1957 as a starting point for her reflections on what it is to be human.
Topics covered include: Branding culture and exploitation The state, market and civil society How visitor attractions such as London's Millennium Dome are used for national aggrandizement and corporate business purposes Cultural development ...
Gives each area's ecological importance and travel information
Such exploitation of the mass market appeal of ecotravel and ecotourism, especially to exotic environments, has been termed 'green washing'. McLaren uses the term 'ecotravel' to include both ecotourism and nature-based tourism and notes ...