1. Understanding commemorative events -- 2. Imagining national identities -- 3. Dark, disturbing and difficult commemorative events -- 4. The tourism paradox -- 5. It happened at the world's fair -- 6. The re-enactors' world -- 7. A day at battle -- 8. Cultural commemorations -- 9. Commercial...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introducing the Explorer Traveller -- Part 1: The Hero’s Journey -- 2. The Call to Adventure -- 3. Preparation and Departure -- 4. The Journey -- 5. The Return -- Part 2: Imagining Explorers -- 6. Fiction and the Myth of the Explorer -- 7. Desert Island Castaways...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Extraordinary Journeys -- 2. The Gift Shop at 221B Baker Street -- 3. A Misspent Youth (Children’s Fiction and Travel) -- 4. Murder They Wrote -- 5. The Past is a Foreign Country -- 6. No Country for Old Men -- 7. Once Upon a Time in the West -- 8....

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Part 1: Context -- 1. Introduction: Second Homes, Curse or Blessing? Revisited -- 2. Second Home Tourism Impact, Planning and Management -- Part 2: Mobilities, Encounters and Meanings -- 3. The 'Cottage' Privilege: Increasingly Elite...

In the standard repeat-sales method, the maintained assumption is that the quality does not change between a house?s two sale dates. This assumption has been called into question. In particular quality changes from renovations carried out between a house?s two sales are not accounted for in the...

The effect of credit constraints on the dropout, graduate and slow finishing decisions of university students in Australia is studied. The Australian university system has institutions in place to resolve credit constraint issues, including an income contingent loan scheme and means tested...

In the standard repeat-sales method, the maintained assumption is that the quality does not change between a house?s two sale dates. This assumption has been called into question. In particular quality changes from renovations carried out between a house?s two sales are not accounted for in the...

Concern for the Earth’s changing climate, as a consequence of rising greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere, has led to policies aimed at reducing GHG emissions and increasing carbon sequestration. In Australia this has been acknowledged in the New South Wales Greenhouse Gas...

The main purpose of this study is to provide some microeconomic tools for the calibration of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model for Iran. For decades, CGE models have increasingly been used to study the economic and social consequences of government policy schemes and the distribution...

The Australian Parliament has passed legislation compelling tobacco products to be sold in ?plain packaging?. This paper reviews this legislation and its likely effects on prices, market structure in the tobacco industry and on smoking behaviour. Industry changes following two previous sets of...