Tourism and the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014
Every decade, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) convenes a World Parks Congress (WPC), in conjunction with the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). The sixth WP...
Tourism at the Fifth World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, 8–17 September 2003
The Fifth World Parks Congress was held in Durban, South Africa from 8 to 17 September 2003. There were 2600 delegates, 300 accredited journalists and 500 staff and volunteer workers in attendance. This report is a summary of some of the outcomes of the park tourism discussions at the Congress, with particular attention to the role of the Tourism Task Force. It does not attempt to cover the manyother issues covered by theCongress.A number of key agencies, including UNEP,UNESCO,WTO, TheNatureConservancy,The InternationalEcotourism Society, and Conservation International were involved with tourism-related congress main and side events. The Tourism Task Force met on 10 September. The meeting was in three parts. Part 1 of the meeting was a short introduction to the history of the Task Force, its activities and products. The World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Steering Committee created the Task Force in 1997. Its Terms of Reference can be found at http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/rec/taskforce/tmsofref.htm. From1997to 2003, theTourismTaskForcewas involved in thedevelopment of three major policy documents, as well as many more minor issues.
Planning and the rural environment
This book is about the changing fabric of the open countryside: a field neglected by planners who have been preoccupied with the built environment of both town and country. A central theme is the conflict of interest between some of the major rural users and groups. The repercussions for the countryside of changing activities and attitudes in five main areas of rural resource planning are examined: farming, forestry, leisure, and the conservation of wildlife and landscape. Their interactions are then explored in the contrasting environments of the urban fringe and the uplands. Finally, the authors review the development of rural planning, discuss some of the technical and philosophical problems that have emerged, and speculate upon a variety of issues that will shape the countryside of the future. They conclude that the rural environment is changing much more rapidly than many people think; within a generation, many of the characteristics of the present countryside could disappear.