Contributors represent a wide range of countries, and disciplines that include biology, political science, and natural resources as well as tourism. Drawing largely from case studies, they investigate whether the increasingly popular low-environmental-impact version of tourism can actually have adverse ecological impacts on places and people visited; on the land, water, and air traversed; and on the animals and plants viewed. Among the topics are impacts of tourism-related in-migration in the Greater Yellowstone Region (Montana), recreational power-boating on freshwater ecosystems, managing impacts of camping, the microalgal beds in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, and hikers in Russia's Kavkazsky State Biosphere Reserve. Distributed in the US by Oxford University Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR