Island tourism and sustainable development : Caribbean, Pacific, and Mediterranean experiences / edited by Yorghos Apostolopoulos and Dennis J. Gayle.

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From MIRAB to TOURAB? Searching for sustainable development in the maritime Caribbean, Pacific, and Mediterranean / Yorghos Apostolopoulos and Dennis J. Gayle -- Problems for managing sustainable tourism in small islands / Jerome L. McElroy and Klaus de Albuquerque -- The development of a sustainable tourism sector in the Caribbean / Bhoendradatt Tewarie -- Managing and sustaining tourism in small states: Singapore and the Pacific islands / Linda Low -- Tourism development in Mediterranean islands: opportunities and constraints / Dimitri Ioannides -- Sustainable coastal and marine tourism development: a Hobson's choice? / Vinod Sasidharan and Brijesh Thapa -- Tourism, agriculture, and the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems in small islands / Dennis Conway -- Island tourism development and carrying capacity / Harry Coccossis -- Cultural tourism in small-island states: contradictions and ambiguities / Ron Ayres -- Sustaining tourism in islands under sociopolitical adversity / Sevil S�onmez -- Tour-operator hegemony: dependency, oligopoly, and sustainability in insular destinations / Dallen J. Timothy and Dimitri Ioannides -- Women as producers and consumers of island tourism / Penny Davidson, Trudy Jones, and Matthias Schellhorn -- Disease mapping and risk assessment for public health and sustainable tourism development in insular regions / Yorghos Apostolopoulos and Sevil S�onmez -- Island-community involvement in tourism land-use planning / Philippos Loukissas and Nikolaos Triantafyllopoulos -- Sustainable strategies and prospects for small tourist islands / Kyung-Hwan Kim and Muzaffer Uysal.

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This multidisciplinary volume dicusses the impact of tourism on sustainable development in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean. Bringing together scholars, development practitioners, international experts, and professionals, the contributors discuss the issues from a holistic and transnational perspective. This work provides a much-needed, thorough understanding of the interplay among economic, cultural, environmental, and public health parameters.

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