This chapter explores how homestay business can help local communities take charge of tourism growth, fostering sustainability, lowering economic leakage, and improving the preservation of cultural assets. There is a growing movement toward more responsible and less damaging tourism practices as...

Western thought has developed a view of human nature-which we call homo dignus-which focuses on human dignity as the core of human existence. Human dignity (related to human rationality and morality) entails a moral calling, on the fulfilment of which human flourishing depends. Incorporating the...

Environmental sociology now clearly attests the unequal contribution made by corporations and individuals to climate change (Rieger 2024, previous issue) and more generally to the ecological crisis (Freudenburg 2006; Collins et al. 2020), and advocates for focused and constraining regulations...