Time as a Major Barrier to Sustainable Development

Author: Alan A. Lew, Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Northern Arizona University, Arizona, USA

Published in: Tourism Geographies, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010, pages 481 - 483

There are many barriers to sustainable development, including

    * just defining what sustainable development is;
    * trying to making connections between sustainability issues that exist at different scales (from personal to community to global);
    * trying to make connections between sustainability issues that exist in different industries and activities (total life-cycle costing issues); and
    * deciding how to properly balance environmental, social and ecological issues.

Most of these issues are mentioned in the literature on sustainable development (including my study area of sustainable tourism) in some way or another. One major challenge, however, that seems to never come up is the limitation of the human perception of time. 'Be here now' is, unfortunately, how most of us behave too much of the time. ...

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To cite this Article: Lew, Alan A. (2010) 'Time as a Major Barrier to Sustainable Development', Tourism Geographies, 12:3, 481 - 483

Landscape, Tourism and Meaning

Book Review of: Landscape, Tourism and Meaning by Daniel C. Knudsen, Michelle M. Metro-Roland, Anne K. Soper & Charles E. Greer (Eds), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-4943-4

Reviewed by : Brian Graham, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, UK

Published in: Tourism Geographies, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010, pages 484 - 486 

This book, which is a contribution to Ashgate's 'New directions in Tourism Analysis' series emerges from the sometimes unfortunate engagement of tourism studies with cultural geography and its convoluted and pretentious lexicon. The provenance of the volume lies in two sessions at the 2004 meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Philadelphia, the purpose of the book being explicitly ambitious in that its role 'is to re-theorize tourism' through an examination of the intersection between landscape, identity and tourism. ...

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To cite this review article: Graham, Brian (2010) 'A Review of “Landscape, Tourism and Meaning”', Tourism Geographies, 12:3, 484 - 486

Publishing Tourism Geography Research

Author: Deborah Che

Published in: Tourism Geographies, Volume 12, Issue 2, May 2010, pages 324 - 328

At the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Las Vegas, Nevada (22-27 March), geographers shared their experiences as participants in a stimulating and thought-provoking panel on 'Publishing Tourism Geography Research'. I organized this session in order to elicit recommendations from geographers with extensive publication records and with experience editing, reviewing, developing book projects, founding journals and experience with department and university administration where institutional research standards for tenure and promotion decisions are developed and put into effect. ...

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To cite this Article: Che, Deborah (2010) 'Publishing Tourism Geography Research', Tourism Geographies, 12:2, 324 - 328