Pro-Poor Mountain Tourism

This timely and interdisciplinary book is the first to examine mountain tourism and local communities with a pro-poor lens. By drawing on human geography, political and social science, ethics and moral philosophy and empirical research, the volume explores how mountain tourism can be used to fight poverty and inequality in mountain regions.

Michal Apollo is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and a Fellow of Yale University’s Global Justice Program, New Haven, USA. Michal is an enthusiastic researcher, traveller, mountaineer, ultra-runner, diver, photographer, and science populariser. Michal’s unique background allows him to integrate knowledge from the perspectives of various points of view into his research and consultancy work. His areas of expertise are tourism management, consumer behaviours well as environmental and socio-economical issues. In his main research field, he focuses on human presence in high mountain regions and their wellbeing. Currently, he is working on a concept of sustainable use of environmental and human resources, as this is a key to the development, prosperity and wellbeing of all stakeholders. Michal is a board member of the Academics Stand Against Poverty.

Yana Wengel is an Associate Professor at the Hainan University - Arizona State University International Tourism College based in Hainan University, China. Yana takes a critical approach to tourism studies, and her interests include volunteer tourism, non-profit tourism, tourism in developing economies, creative methodologies and mountain tourism. She has an interest in creative qualitative tools for data collection and stakeholder engagement. Yana is a co-founder of the LEGO(R) SERIOUS PLAY(R) research community.

Thomas Pogge is a Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale University, USA. Thomas Pogge is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science, as well as co-founder of Academics, Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network aiming to enhance the impact of scholars, teachers and students on global poverty, and of Incentives for Global Health, a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide. Pogge has published widely on Immanuel Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including various books on Rawls and global justice.