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Tourism and National Parks: International Perspectives on Development, Histories and Change

Tourism and National Parks: International Perspectives on Development, Histories and Change

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Business GeneralEnvironmental StudiesGeography

ISBN10: 0415471567
ISBN13: 9780415471565
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 13 2009
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

In 1872 Yellowstone was established as a National Park. The name caught the public's imagination and by the close of the century, other National Parks had been declared, not only in the USA, but also in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Yet as it has spread, the concept has evolved and diversified. In the absence of any international controlling body, individual countries have been free to adapt the concept for their own physical, social and economic environments. Some have established national parks to protect scenery, others to protect ecosystems or wildlife. Tourism has also been a fundamental component of the national parks concept from the beginning and predates ecological justifications for national park establishment though it has been closely related to landscape conservation rationales at the outset.

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