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Jason deCaires Taylor: An Underwater Art Museum, Teeming with Life
27. February 2016For sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, the ocean is more than a muse — it’s an exhibition space and museum. Taylor creates sculptures of human forms and mundane life on land and sinks them to the ocean floor, where they are subsumed by the
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Fund Housing or Infrastructure?
26. February 2016The question whether rebuilding funds should rather be spent on housing or infrastructure has long been debated among researchers. Most researchers agree that funding infrastructure that enables community interaction is more important for the
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Building Back Better
24. February 2016“‘Building back better‘ refers to rebuild in order to attain a state that is said to be less vulnerable than before” (Kennedy et al., 2008, cited in Le De, 2011, p.30). After the tsunami of 2004, former US president Bill Clinton (2006) proposed
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Resettlements
23. February 2016According to Le De (2011, p.121), relocating communities after a disaster can have more negative effects for the population than benefits and may actually increase their vulnerability: “Recent examples such as the Indian Ocean tsunami affecting
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The Role of Tourism in Disaster Management
Asia Best Practices Disaster Management Disaster Preparedness Disaster Recovery Disaster Relief Disaster Response22. February 2016Tourism stakeholders can contribute to disaster management in different ways, depending on the stage of the life cycle. A study conducted by Muskat et al. (2015), which examined the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011,
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Volunteering in Disaster Areas
Best Practices Disaster Management Disaster Preparedness Disaster Recovery Disaster Relief Disaster Response North America Science Volunteering21. February 2016Volunteer tourism as such is not new, neither is the combination of adventure tourism and volunteer purposes. New is, however, the extent to which adventure tour operators and adventure tourists alike engage in the recovery efforts and
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Planeterra – IDB
20. February 2016Since 2012, G Adventures and Planeterra have partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Multilateral Investment Fund to help create lasting positive social change throughout Central and South America and to make the world a
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Adventure Operators Engaging in Disaster Recovery Efforts
Adventure Asia Best Practices Culture Disaster Recovery Disaster Relief Empowerment Rebuilding South America Volunteering19. February 2016G Adventures and the Evolution of Adventure Tourism In 1990, Bruce Poon Tip founded G Adventures “to bridge the gap between mainstream tourism and the backpacker” (Poon Tip, 2013, p.47). They’ve since received many awards for their innovative
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Adventures With a Purpose
17. February 2016In the 2014 UNWTO Global Report on Adventure Tourism, ATTA president Shannon Stowell identifies the top four trends in adventure tourism: The softening of adventure travel, customization of trip experiences, multi-generational groups, and
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The Dark Side of Adventure Tourism
15. February 2016Despite the many potential benefits of adventure tourism, it does not always succeed to improve the livelihoods of the local communities. Marx (2011) criticizes “In many cases CBT projects have failed to deliver financial viability due to lack