News and events
Highlights 2007/08
- Ecotourism Principles and Practices (Buckley) in press late 2008. CAB International
- Welcome to Professor David Weaver and Dr Laura Lawton, rejoining Griffith from the USA.
- Ecotourism Field Course in Nepal November 2007.
- ICER selected to lead major new Griffith University investment in sustainable tourism research, one of seven areas of strategic investment across the University as a whole.
- New research on tourism and climate change, focussing on: the responses of tourism destinations; the impacts on natural attractions; and the role of tourism in conservation.
- Tourism components of Griffith Climate Response Program and regional and national climate adaptation research.
- Thanks to members of our Advisory Board, whether new, continuing or retiring.
- Thanks to Conservation Corporation Africa and Wilderness Safaris for major sponsorship of research on contributions of tourism to conservation.
- Catherine Pickering invited speaker at national IUCN workshop on climate change and protected areas, 2007, and keynote speaker at Forum on Tourism in the Australian Alps, 2008.
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PhD theses recently completed or due for:
- Troy Byrnes on environmental management of tour boats in Australia, (in progress).
- Hum Gurung on community governance of protected areas in Nepal, (2008).
- Michelle Oost on disturbance of bird population dynamics by tourist feeding, (2008).
- Graeme Worboys on evaluation of protected area management effectiveness worldwide, (2007).
- Claudia Ollenburg on farm tourism in Australia (graduated January 2007).