Environmental Impacts of Ecotourism

PART 1: CONTEXT
* Impacts positive and negative: links between ecotourism and environment, Ralf Buckley
* The cost of getting there: impacts of travel to ecotourism destinations, David Simmons and Susanne Becken, Lincoln University, New Zealand
* Impacts of tourism-related in-migration: the Greater Yellowstone Region, Jerry Johnson, Montana State University, USA

PART 2: REVIEWS: ACTIVITIES
* Impacts of hiking and camping on soils and vegetation, David Cole, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, USA
* Environmental impacts associated with recreational horse riding, David Newsome, Murdoch University, Australia, David Cole, and Jeff Marion, Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre, USA
* Environmental impacts of motorised off-highway vehicles, Ralf Buckley
* Impacts of tour boats in marine environments, Jan Warnken and Troy Byrnes, Griffith University, Australia

PART 3: REVIEWS: ECOSYSTEMS
* Impacts of recreational power boating on freshwater ecosystems, Thorsten Mosisch, Moreton Bay Waterways and Catchment Partnership, Australia, and Angela Arthington, Griffith University, Australia
* Ecological impacts of tourism in terrestrial polar ecosystems, Bruce Forbes, University of Lapland, Finland, Christopher Monz, St. Lawrence University, USA, and Anne Tolvanen, University of Oulu, Finland
* Ecological impacts and management of tourist engagements with cetaceans, James Higham and David Lusseau, University of Otago, New Zealand
* Impacts of ecotourism on birds, Ralf Buckley
* Impacts of ecotourism on terrestrial wildlife, Ralf Buckley

PART 4: REVIEWS: MANAGEMENT
* Environmentally sustainable trail management, Jeff Marion, and Yu-Fai Leung, North Carolina State University, USA
* Managing impacts of camping, Yu-Fai Leung, and Jeff Marion
* Visitor perceptions of recreation-related resource impacts, Robert Manning, Steven Lawson, Peter Newman, Megha Budruk, William Valliere, Daniel Laven and James Bacon, University of Vermont, USA
* Managing impacts of ecotourism through use rationing and allocation, Robert Manning
* Using Ecological Impact Measurements to Design Visitor Management, Ralf Buckley

PART 5: CASE STUDIES
* Reducing impacts through interpretation, Lamington National Park, Carolyn Littlefair, Griffith University, Australia
* Campsite impacts in Prince William Sound, Alaska USA, Christopher Monz, St. Lawrence University, USA, and Paul Twardock, Alaska Pacific University, USA
* The role of tourism in spreading dieback disease in Australian, Ralf Buckley, Narelle King and Tatia Zubrinich, Griffith University, Australia
* Instream bacteria as a low-threshold management indicator of tourist impacts in conservation reserves, Wiebke Warnken and Ralf Buckley, Griffith University, Australia
* Four-wheel drive vehicle impacts in the Central Coast Region of Western Australia, Julianna Priskin,The University of Western Australia, Australia
* Ecological impacts of ecotourist visitation on macroalgal beds in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Lilian Alessa, Andrew Kliskey and Martin Robards, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
* Understanding use and users at Itatiaia National Park, Brazil, Teresa Magro, ESALQ/USP, Brazil, and Maria De Barros, Outward Bound Brasil, Brazil
* Impacts and management of hikers in Kavkazsky State Biosphere Reserve, Russia, Vera Chizhova, Moscow State University, Russia

Ralf C. Buckley

Ralf C. Buckley