Frameworks for Tourism Research

Developing a geocollaboratory for Indigenous tourism research

Progress and Prospects for Tourism Footprint Research

The tourism footprint family comprises the tourism ecological footprint (TEF), the tourism carbon footprint (TCF) and the tourism water footprint (TWF). The tourism footprint represents an important tool for quantitatively assessing the impact of tourism activities on the ecosystem of a tourist destination. This paper systematically reviews the relevant literature on TEF, TCF and TWF, analyses ...

Sustainable Tourism: Research and Reality

Social and environmental impacts, responses and indicators are reviewed for the mainstream tourism sector worldwide, in five categories: population, peace, prosperity, pollution and protection. Of the 5000 relevant publications, very few attempt to evaluate the entire global tourism sector in terms which reflect global research in sustainable development. The industry is not yet close to sustai...

Frameworks for Disaster Research and Evaluation.

This issue of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine contains the second series of special reports on the Framework for disaster research and evaluation. This series of papers represents work done by Birnbaum, Daily, O’Rourke, and Loretti to define and illustrate guidelines for the study of disaster events. The Framework papers are published with the realization that there are other researchers and ...

IS Research Frameworks and Paradigms

The foundations of research in Information Systems can be studied at least from the viewpoint of frameworks and paradigms. Information Systems (IS) researchers have argued for and against having a research framework in the IS field. Several descriptive and normative IS research frameworks have been suggested. Many IS researchers have been engaging into the debate concerning the core of the IS f...