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PART 1: CONTEXT * Impacts positive and negative: links between ecotourism and environment, Ralf Buckley * The cost of getting there: impacts of travel to ecotourism destinations, David Simmons and Susanne Becken, Lincoln University, New Zealand * Impacts of tourism-related in-migration: the Greater Yellowstone Region, Jerry Johnson, Montana State University, USAPART 2: REVIEWS: ACTIVITIES * Impacts of hiking and camping on soils and vegetation, David Cole, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, USA * Environmental impacts associated with recreational horse riding, David Newsome, Murdoch University, Australia, David Cole, and Jeff Marion, Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre, USA * Environmental impacts of motorised off-highway vehicles, Ralf Buckley * Impacts of tour boats in marine environments, Jan Warnken and Troy Byrnes, Griffith University, AustraliaPART 3: REVIEWS: ECOSYSTEMS * Impacts of recreational power boating on freshwater ecosystems, Thorsten Mosisch, Moreton Bay Waterways and Catchment Partnership, Australia, and Angela Arthington, Griffith University, Australia * Ecological impacts of tourism in terrestrial polar ecosystems, Bruce Forbes, University of Lapland, Finland, Christopher Monz, St. Lawrence University, USA, and Anne Tolvanen, University of Oulu, Finland * Ecological impacts and management of tourist engagements with cetaceans, James Higham and David Lusseau, University of Otago, New Zealand * Impacts of ecotourism on birds, Ralf Buckley * Impacts of ecotourism on terrestrial wildlife, Ralf BuckleyPART 4: REVIEWS: MANAGEMENT * Environmentally sustainable trail management, Jeff Marion, and Yu-Fai Leung, North Carolina State University, USA * Managing impacts of camping, Yu-Fai Leung, and Jeff Marion * Visitor perceptions of recreation-related resource impacts, Robert Manning, Steven Lawson, Peter Newman, Megha Budruk, William Valliere, Daniel Laven and James Bacon, University of Vermont, USA * Managing impacts of ecotourism through use rationing and allocation, Robert Manning * Using Ecological Impact Measurements to Design Visitor Management, Ralf BuckleyPART 5: CASE STUDIES * Reducing impacts through interpretation, Lamington National Park, Carolyn Littlefair, Griffith University, Australia * Campsite impacts in Prince William Sound, Alaska USA, Christopher Monz, St. Lawrence University, USA, and Paul Twardock, Alaska Pacific University, USA * The role of tourism in spreading dieback disease in Australian, Ralf Buckley, Narelle King and Tatia Zubrinich, Griffith University, Australia * Instream bacteria as a low-threshold management indicator of tourist impacts in conservation reserves, Wiebke Warnken and Ralf Buckley, Griffith University, Australia * Four-wheel drive vehicle impacts in the Central Coast Region of Western Australia, Julianna Priskin,The University of Western Australia, Australia * Ecological impacts of ecotourist visitation on macroalgal beds in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Lilian Alessa, Andrew Kliskey and Martin Robards, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA * Understanding use and users at Itatiaia National Park, Brazil, Teresa Magro, ESALQ/USP, Brazil, and Maria De Barros, Outward Bound Brasil, Brazil * Impacts and management of hikers in Kavkazsky State Biosphere Reserve, Russia, Vera Chizhova, Moscow State University, Russia
