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See It Before It’s Too Late? Last-Chance Travel Lists and Climate Change
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McGaurr, L and Lester, L, See It Before It's Too Late? Last-Chance Travel Lists and Climate Change, Climate Change and the Media, Peter Lang Inc, B Brevini and J Lewis (ed), New York, pp. 123-140. ISBN 978-1-4331-5437-9 (2018) [Research Book Chapter]
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Copyright 2018 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York
DOI: doi:10.3726/b14826
Abstract
In an era of rapidly increasing human population and global travel, ‘last-chance tourism’ is attracting considerable media attention (Dawson, Lemelin, Stewart, & Taillon, 2015). This phenomenon is defined by scholars as commercial tourism that exploits ‘vanishing landscapes or icescapes, and/or disappearing natural and/or social heritage’ (Lemlin, Dawson, Stewart, Maher, & Lueck, 2010, p. 478). Many last-chance destinations and experiences are ones at risk from climate change—polar bear viewing in Canada, the ice-capped peak of Mount Kiliminjaro in Tanzania, the glaciers of Greenland, and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (e.g. Frew, 2008, 2012; Lemelin, Dawson, Stewart, Maher, & Lueck, 2010; Piggott-McKellar & McNamara, 2016).
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | environment, tourism, last-chance tourism, environmental communication |
| Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
| Research Group: | Communication and media studies |
| Research Field: | Media studies |
| Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
| Objective Group: | Communication |
| Objective Field: | The media |
| UTAS Author: | McGaurr, L (Dr Lynette McGaurr) |
| UTAS Author: | Lester, L (Professor Libby Lester) |
| ID Code: | 127565 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DP150103454) |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
| Deposited On: | 2018-08-03 |
| Last Modified: | 2019-01-15 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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