The challenge of sustainably managing tourism on a finite planet -- Managing a spider web : the tourism industry supply chains & sustainability -- Economic development of tourism in emerging economies -- Hotels : the backbone of the tourism industry -- I'll fly away : airlines, airports and the...

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Introduction -- Vision for scale -- Sustainable business models that scale -- Talent for scaling -- Financing scaling -- Partnerships for scaling -- Supporting scaling : the roles of key stakeholders -- Looking to the future...

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Why urban food planning? -- Food and the city of tomorrow -- Bridging food and planning -- Seeing the city through a food system lens -- Urban food planning in the public domain -- The untapped potential of new urban development -- New governance arenas...

This book offers an approach for multi-scale, integrated assessment of land use, water, energy, food, populations and environmental resources. The approach is based in resource accounting, providing insights through exploring the relationships between flows of goods, services, and materials, and...

Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America....

"Integrated Water Resource Planning provides practical, evidence-based guidance on water resource planning. In a time of heightened awareness of ecosystem needs, climate change, and increasing and conflicting demands on resources, water professionals and decision-makers around the world are on a...

Klappentext: "Biodiversity' at its simplest, refers to the variety of species inhabiting Planet Earth. It is essential to the well-being of the planet. There is now a scientific consensus around the current ongoing crisis in biodiversity arising from both climate change and human activities....