Polar Tourism: A Tool for Regional Development

List of contributors

Bas Amelung is a researcher at the Environmental Systems Analysis Group (ESA) at Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. from ­ Maastricht University in the Netherlands in March 2006 with a study on the linkages between climate change and tourism. His research interests include sustainable tourism as well as tourism and climate change mitigation and adaptation. bas.amelung@wur.nl Nathan Bennett (B.Ed., M.E.S.) is a doctoral candidate in the Marine Protected Areas Research Group at the University of ­ Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and a Trudeau Scholar for the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. Mr. Bennett is the lead researcher for Project I MPAACT in Thailand. njbennet@uvic.ca List of Contributors 24303.indb 257 11-10-12 10:49 AM 258 Polar Tourism: A Tool for Regional Development Annie d’Amours is an Art History graduate and has completed four years in a Museology, Mediation, and Heritage doctoral program at Universit é du Québec à Montréal. She has been awarded a research grant by the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), to conduct a research on Arctic museum institutions in Nunavik and in situ patrimonialization of Inuit artistic productions. The purpose of her work is to determine the role of regional and national heritage institutions, reveal what are the stakes around which diverse interest groups come together, and understand the general conditions of the patrimonialization process. Annie d’Amours has notably published a paper about the acquisition and display of an Inuit art collection by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. annie.damours@msdl.ca Debra J. Enzenbacher (Ph.D.) is a human geographer with a background in Antarctic politics and tourism management. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Qualifications Board of the Institute of Tourism Guiding (London). Climate change and tourism and rain forest are emerging research interests. She is currently associate professor at the University of Brunei Darussalam (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences). debra.enzenbacher@ubd.edu.bn David A. Fennell teaches and researches mainly in the areas of ecotourism and tourism ethics. He has published widely in these areas, including sole-authored books on ecotourism program planning, a general text on ecotourism, tourism ethics, and a title focusing on codes of ethics in tourism (he has edited two other books). Fennell is the founding editorin -chief of the Journal of Ecotourism, and is an active member on the editorial boards of many academic journals. dfennell@brocku.ca Hans Gelter has a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University and holds a position as assistant professor in Experience Production at Luleå University of Technology. He has taught polar ecology, outdoor education, and experience production, and his research interest is guide pedagogics and experience production in polar areas. Dr Gelter has ­ personal polar experiences through several scientific and educational expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. hans.gelter@ltu.se 24303.indb 258 11-10-12 10:49 AM List of Contributors 259 Alain A. Grenier is a professor of Nature-Based Tourism and Sustainable Development at the Department of Urban Studies and Tourism at the École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG-UQAM). A doctor in sociology from the University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi (Finland), Alain A. Grenier researches the impacts of the contradicting relationship between human beings and the natural environments, using the Arctic and Antarctic as case studies. He has authored many articles on polar tourism. In 2008, he became the editor-in-chief of the academic French-language journal of tourism Téoros. He is also head of the Masters’ degree program in Tourism Development at the Université du Québec since 2010. grenier.alain@uqam.ca Bryan S.R. Grimwood is a new faculty member at the University of Waterloo and teaches in the areas of outdoor recreation, tourism, and parks. He is completing the final stages of a Ph.D. in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research explores the intersecting geographies of nature, responsibility, travel, and learning, with a current focus on the Thelon River in sub-Arctic Canada. bryan.grimwood@gmail.com Randy Kapashesit is the Chief MoCreebec Council of the Cree Nation and one of the founding members of the Cree Village Ecolodge...