The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies inherent to tourism’s relationship with nature, especially pertinent at a time of major re-evaluation of our relationship with the environment as a consequence of the environmental problems we now face. It brings together leading specialists from range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on this complex relationship and future direction.

The book is divided in to five interrelated sections. Section one evaluates the philosophical basis, rationale and complexity of what is meant by the term ‘environment’ considering the major influences in the construction of how we understand our surroundings and the types of values we place upon them. Section two evaluates the types of eco-systems that are used as natural resources for tourism and the negative and positive impacts upon them. Section three evaluates relevant environmental policy and management mechanisms for the impacts of tourism on the natural environment. Section four focuses on the changing tourism-environment relationship, and the types of tourism that have become established in the tourism industry, market and policy. Section five, analyzes contemporary and future issues of the tourism-environment relationship, based upon themes of environmental and social welfare.

This timely book will provide an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in tourism’s relationship with the natural environment, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study. The book is international in its focus, emphasizing that issues of tourism and the natural environment are not only localized but transcend national boundaries that sometimes require both international and global responses. This is essential reading for student, researchers and academics of Tourism as well as those of Geography, Environmental Studies and Development Studies.

Routledge旅游与环境手册》探讨并批判性地评估了旅游业与自然关系中固有的辩论和争议，特别是在我们面临环境问题而对我们与环境的关系进行重大重新评估的时候。本书汇集了来自不同学科背景和地理区域的顶尖专家，对这种复杂的关系和未来的发展方向进行了最先进的理论思考和实证研究。

本书分为五个相互关联的部分。第一部分评估了 "环境 "一词的哲学基础、原理和复杂性，考虑了在构建我们如何理解我们的周围环境以及我们对它们的价值类型的主要影响。第二部分评估了被用作旅游自然资源的生态系统的类型以及对它们的消极和积极影响。第三部分评估了旅游业对自然环境影响的相关环境政策和管理机制。第四节重点讨论了不断变化的旅游与环境的关系，以及在旅游业、市场和政策中已经形成的旅游类型。第五部分，根据环境和社会福利的主题，分析了旅游与环境关系的当代和未来问题。

这本及时的书将为所有对旅游与自然环境关系感兴趣的人提供宝贵的资源，鼓励跨学科界限和研究领域的对话。本书的重点是国际性的，强调旅游和自然环境的问题不仅是地方性的，而且超越了国界，有时需要国际和全球的反应。这是旅游专业的学生、研究人员和学者以及地理学、环境研究和发展研究人员的必读之作。