Tourism and the Anthropocene

Martin Gren is Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Edward H. Huijbens is a Research Professor at the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre, based at the University of Akureyri, Iceland.

• Introduction: Tourism and the Anthropocene: An Urgent Emerging Encounter Part I: Tourism and tourists in the Anthropocene 2. Keeping tourism's future within a climatically safe operating space 3. Undoing Iceland? The Pervasive Nature of the Urban 4. Loving nature to death: Tourism consumption, Biodiversity loss and the Anthropocene Part II: Sustaining tourism in the Anthropocene 5. ANT, tourism and situated globality – looking down in the Anthropocene 6. Arctic whale-watching and Anthropocene ethics 7. Good vs. Bad Tourism: Homo Viator’S Responsibility in Light of Life-value Onto-axiology Part III: Tourism becomings in the Anthropocene 8. The movement heritage – scale, place, and pathscapes in Anthropocene tourism 9. Anthropocene ambiguities: Upscale golf, analytical abstractions, and the particularities of environmental transformation. 10. Mapping the Anthropocene and Tour-ism 11. Conclusions The Anthropocene and Tourism Destinations