Yudu - Green Economy - Tourism

Towards a green economy Acknowledgements

Chapter Coordinating Author: Lawrence Pratt, Director of the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS), INCAE Business School, Alajuela, Costa Rica.

Lead authors also included Luis Rivera, Economics Consultant and Amos Bien, Sustainable Tourism Consultant.

Nicolas Bertrand of UNEP managed the chapter, including the handling of peer reviews, interacting with the coordinating author on revisions, conducting supplementary research, conducting preliminary editing and bringing the chapter to final production. Derek Eaton reviewed and edited the modelling section of the chapter.

The chapter was developed in partnership with the World Tourism Organization. The project manager for UNWTO was Luigi Cabrini, Director, Sustainable Tourism Programme.

Background Technical Papers prepared for the development of this chapter were drafted by the following individuals: James Alin (Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia), Ravinder Batta (Government of Himachal Pradesh, India), Tom Baum (University of Strathclyde, UK), Kelly Bricker (University of Utah, USA and TIES Board of Directors, USA), Rachel Dodds (Sustaining Tourism, Canada), Ramesh Durbarry (University of Technology, Mauritius), Ioanna Farsari (Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece), Carolyn George (TEAM Tourism Consulting, UK), Stefan Gössling (Lund University, Sweden), Gui Lohmann (Southern

Cross University, Australia), Anna Karla Moura (Government of the State of São Paulo, Brazil), Awangku Hassanal Bahar Bin Pengiran Bagul (Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia), Paul Peeters (Breda University, The Netherlands),

Philip Sarnoff (University

of Utah, USA), Jeremy R. Schultz (University of Utah, USA), Daniel Scott (University of Waterloo, Canada), Anna Spenceley (Spenceley Tourism and Development, South Africa), Davina Stanford (TEAM Tourism Consulting, UK), Louise Twining-Ward (Freelance consultant), Carolyn Wild (WILD International tourism consultancy, Canada). The preparation of Background Technical Papers was coordinated by Carolyn George and Davina Stanford (TEAM Tourism Consulting, UK). Additional material was prepared by Andrea M. Bassi, John P. Ansah and Zhuohua Tan (Millennium Institute); Wolfgang Weinz and Ana Lucía Iturriza (ILO).

We would like to thank the many colleagues and individuals who commented on various drafts, including Stefanos Fotiou (UNEP), Stefan Gössling (Lund University), Sofia Gutierrez (UNWTO), Donald E. Hawkins (George Washington University), Marcel Leijzer (UNWTO), Brian T. Mullis (Sustainable Travel International), David Owen (UNEP), Helena Rey de Assis (UNEP), Ronald Sanabria Perera (Rainforest Alliance), Andrew Seidl (IUCN), Daniel Scott (University of Waterloo), Deirdre Shurland (IUCN), Richard Tapper (Environment Business & Development Group), and Zoritsa Urosevic (UNWTO). The support of the UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE), Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch, Goods and Services Unit (Charles Arden-Clarke, Head), throughout the project, is also gratefully acknowledged.

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