Global Environmental Degradation: Leisure and Tourism Perspectives

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Global Environmental Degradation: Leisure and Tourism Perspectives

Wednesday, July 16, 2014: 5:30 PM-7:20 PM

Room: 311+312

RC13 Sociology of Leisure (host committee)
RC50 International Tourism

Language: English

Session Organizers:

Ishwar MODI, International Institute Social Sciences, India and Margaret SWAIN, University of California Davis, USA

Co-Chair:

Antti HONKANEN, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

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Tourism in Vulnerable Coastal Areas:Towards a More Resilient Wadden Area (Oral Presentation)
Jasper HESLINGA, University of Groningen, Netherlands

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Interrogating Tourism As an Anti-Poverty Strategy in Middle and Low Income Countries of Africa (Oral Presentation)
Aretha ASAKITIKPI, Monash South Africa, South Africa

JS-45.3

Challenges in Human Resource Development for Rural Leisure Activities in Japan (Oral Presentation)
Munehiko ASAMIZU, Yamaguchi University, Japan

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Existential Reflections on Leisure-Tourism-Environment Interface: A Case Study of Uttarakhand State in India (Oral Presentation)
Neha KALA, BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY, India

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Leisure, Tourism and Environmental Degradation—a Study Based on Assam, India (Oral Presentation)
Pranjal SARMA, Dibrugarh University, India

JS-45.6

Recreational Hunting in Africa: “Meat” or “Poison” for Local Community (Distributed Paper)
Akito YASUDA, Kyushu University, Japan