Publications

Katja Malmborg, Jacqueline Hamilton, Carolin Seiferth. 2025. Leveraging place-based identities and senses of belonging to mobilize for action-oriented research in UNESCO sites. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101536

With increasing land-use pressures on landscapes, it is critical to improve their governance while being inclusive of those living there. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage sites and Biosphere Reserves play a crucial role in protecting both social and ecological values in designated landscapes, making them interesting sites for action-oriented research. The designation and ...

Agnes M. Nowaczek, Carolin Seiferth. 2023. Towards exclusively inclusive visitor experience. The Routledge Handbook of Nature Based Tourism Development. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003230748-23

Visitor experience lies at the epicentre of the tourism industry, regardless of the ever-evolving array of tourism niches, destinations, and products. Although tourism literature is quite abundant with theory and practical insights on visitor experience, it tends to isolate differently abled visitors. One of the better examples of holistic travel, sustainable tourism, seems to omit equity and inclusion from its philosophical u...