Table of Contents

1: Introducing River Tourism: Physical, Ecological and Human Aspects 2: River Tourism in the South Asian Subcontinent 3: River-Based Tourism in the United States: Tourism and Recreation on the Colorado and Mississippi Rivers 4: The Mekong: Developing a New Tourism Region 5: River Tourism: Sailing the Nile 6: European Waterways as a Source of Leisure and Recreation 7: The Yangzi River Tourism Zone 8: Fishing the Big Rivers’ in Australia’s Northern Territory: Market diversification for the Daly River 9: The Amazon: A River Tourism Frontier 10: River Heritage - The Murray Darling River 11: Whitewater Tourism 12: Basin-Based Governance for Integrated Water Resources Management: Prospects and Challenges 13: Sustainable Water Resources and Water Security 14: ‘The River City'? Conflicts in the Development of a Tourism Destination Brand for Brisbane 15: Conclusions and Challenges

About the Author

- Malcolm J. M. Cooper PhD LLM is Emeritus Professor, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan. He teaches tourism management and environmental law. Formerly Vice President for Research and International Affairs, he is a specialist in tourism resource management and development (natural, cultural, social), and environmental and water resource management, and has worked and published widely in these fields. He has lectured at a number of universities in New Zealand, Australia, China and Sri Lanka, and has worked in the environmental planning (City Planner, 1985-1994) and tourism policy (1983-1985) areas for Federal, State and Local Governments in Australia. At other times he has been a private environmental planning consultant in Australia, and a tourism education consultant to the Governments of Sri Lanka, China and Vietnam. He is a recipient of the Australian Centennial medal and has published over 150 books and papers.