Green Building for a Green Tourism. A New Model of Eco-friendly Agritourism

Published Date
2016, Vol.8:201–210, doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2016.02.094

Florence “Sustainability of Well-Being International Forum”. 2015: Food for Sustainability and not just food, FlorenceSWIF2015
Open Access, Creative Commons license

Author 

Francesca D’Alessandro 
University of Studies of Naples “Parthenope”, Department of Economic and Law Studies, G.Parisi Street, Naples, Italy
Available online 23 February 2016. 

Abstract

The following paper highlights the enhancement and promotion of Campania region's rural tourism plus the Green Building's importance for a kind of sustainable and competitive one, providing ideas and valuable suggestions on how natural, environmental and cultural assets of the landscape should be properly exploited. Rural tourism is about values and traditions’ reaffirmation, but is more than that: it also applies to an interest for rural buildings and landscape’ architecture. Rural tourism concerns health protection, a welfare expressed in the pleasure of life, air and water's quality; of genuine and healthily food in an eco-friendly facility and a rural landscape used as a source of satisfaction and relax. Green Building means to build with the aim of ensuring people's wellbeing, regarded as a physical and mental condition in which an individual's health, socio-economic balance and environmental protection play a role. The ideal prototype of rural tourism will encourage all the practices making the farm and the agro-tourist accommodation service architecturally sustainable in the environmental and landscape context, promoting creative activities that are in keeping with the natural and historical setting.

Keywords

rural tourism

green building

prototype

agritourism

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Hunting humans: A future for tourism in 2200

Published Date
April–May 2016, Vol.78:34–46, doi:10.1016/j.futures.2016.03.021

Author 
Daniel William Mackenzie Wright ^,

University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Received 21 October 2015. Accepted 24 March 2016. Available online 30 March 2016. 

Highlights

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  Hunting humans could become a form of tourism entertainment in the future.
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  The future meaning of tourism is considered.
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  Environment, social patterns and economic outlook are considered as key drivers of the future.
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  From fantasy to reality − movies, entertainment, media and technologyare influencing the meaning of death.

Abstract 

This paper offers a future scenario to expose the potential engagement of tourism in the year 2200. Taking a socio-constructionist approach to research and through the analysis of secondary data, it explores current issues and debates concerned with the environment, disasters and depletion of natural resources; social context including movies and entertainment, the media and technology, the evolution of the theme park and cultural transmission; and economical realities, covering poverty vs. world elite and global culture, all of which are seen as drivers of the potential future tourism market. In so doing, it presents a narrative (scenario), provoking the notion that in the year 2200 death and hunting humans will form part of the tourism entertainment industry and a practice carried out by the wealthy-elite, a view backed with substance. It argues, that as a result of past and current engagements with murder, death and human atrocities, and significantly our relationship with death, humans will gradually become more accustomed to death as a form of spectacle, influenced by current entertainment, movies and the media. Death as entertainment by form of detachment (emotionally and physically) will further influence the future fun aspect of hunting humans. Significantly, changes in our natural environment will lead to great challenges, lack of water, depleted food resources and greater disparity between the wealthy and impoverished; all of which will drive the change in our humanly existence. This papers aims to provide a provocative account of the ‘potential future meaning of tourism’, through the application of current knowledge, and significantly, it is our relationship with death and violence that are central, death and violence are becoming diluted and thus, will be a source of future entertainment and a tourism activity – in less humans can reach a level of transcendence that has never been present, to transcend the culture they have created, one that has always witnessed violence as a means to survival. If violence can be detached then we will be presented with a ‘wild card’, a future that is truly out of this world.

Keywords

• Tourism
• Dark
• Humans
• Future
• Scenario
• Death
• Entertainment

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Greenhouse gas emissions from round wood production in Japan

Published Date
Journal of Cleaner Production
Available online 8 October 2016, doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.024
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Author

• Katsuyuki Nakano ^a
• Naoki Shibahara ^a
• Toshifumi Nakai ^a
• Keisuke Shintani ^b
• Hirotaka Komata ^c
• Masahiro Iwaoka ^d
• Nobuaki Hattori ^d,,

• aLCA Center, Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (JEMAI), 2-1, Kajicho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0044, Japan
• bRegional Management Group, Mitsubishi Research Institute, 10-3, Nagatacho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8141, Japan
• cForest Research Department, Hokkaido Research Organization, Kita 19-Jo, Nishi 11-chome, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0819, Japan
• dFaculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Saiwai-cho 3-5-8, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan

Received 31 March 2016. Revised 3 October 2016. Accepted 7 October 2016. Available online 8 October 2016.

Highlights

• Greenhouse gas emissions from round wood production were quantified.
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  Four Japanese major species for material use were evaluated.
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  All 47 prefectures were modeled to reflect varied climates and forest practice.
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  From seedling to final felling and extraction to forest roadside was evaluated.
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  Round wood production in Japan was estimated to be 23.0 kg-CO₂e/m³ ob.

Abstract 

Wood has a long-standing history as an industrial material and fuel. Generic life cycle assessment data is therefore needed to assess the quantitative environmental impact of wood. The aim of this study was to estimate cradle-to-gate greenhouse gas emissions for round wood production of four common Japanese tree species. This study focused on Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica), hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi) and Sakhalin fir (Abies sachalinensis) because these four tree species constitute more than 80% of total round wood production in Japan. This study encompassed all major forestry activities, such as planting, thinning and final felling. In addition to these activities, indirect processes, such as construction of forest roads, were also included. The functional unit used for this study was 1 m³ over bark of green wood (ob). All 47 prefectures were modeled in order to investigate the site characteristics across Japan. Activity data such as yield per area, required seedling numbers, and thinning method were collected for each tree species and for each prefecture. By combining actual surveyed data and simulation data, information collection challenges on variations in sites and time were overcome. The results of this study suggested that greenhouse gas emissions relating to round wood production of Japanese cedar, hinoki cypress, Japanese larch, and Sakhalin fir were 21.7, 25.9, 24.9 and 25.5 kg-CO₂e/m³ ob, respectively. The weighted average value for all of Japan was estimated to be 23.0 kg-CO₂e/m³ ob. The amount of temporal carbon storage for these tree species was calculated as 585–762 kg-CO₂e/m³ ob. The results also revealed large variation between different prefectures across Japan. Regarding hinoki cypress, for example, the largest greenhouse gas emissions and land use values as an inventory indicator among evaluated prefectures were approximately 1.5 times and 2.7 times larger than the smallest emissions and land use values, respectively. A prefecture with a higher share of heavy forestry machinery tended to indicate relatively higher greenhouse gas emissions. A comprehensive analysis of the target geographical area is therefore required to produce values representative of the region of interest. Among the processes assessed, the final felling process contributed to the largest portion of greenhouse gas emissions in all tree species. An improvement of the energy efficiency of this process is therefore needed. Improving labor productivity would reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from commuting workers.

Keywords

• Cradle-to-gate
• Forest management
• Land use
• Life cycle assessment (LCA)
• Round wood
• Silviculture

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