Keynote Presentations
from the
AVEC
International
Summer School, Peyresq, 14-27 September 2003
Speaker: Gordon Sillence
g.sillence<at>inpeco.pt
Gordon Sillence
INPECO - Instituto Portugues de Ecologia, Apt. 89, 8550 Monchique, Portugal
Title of the talk: Sustainable tourism (pdf)
Biosketch
Current work focus as a consultant on sustainable development
includes the following recent projects:
2003
- Writing ‘a Resource Guide to the World Summit on Sustainable
Development’.
- Editing the Ecotrans book ‘Sustainable Tourism in Europe
-Theory and Practice’.
- Managing the Citizen’s School European Network Project
(European Union Socrates project).
2002
- European Commission DG Enterprise Tourism Unit – Principal
researcher and co-author of the Staff Working Paper ‘an Agenda 21 for the
European Tourism Sector’.
- Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
Ecotrans – ‘Light on Sustainable Development’ multimedia information dissemination
project elaborating fundamental principles of sustainable development.
2001 – 2002
- European Parliament STOA Committee Report ‘Policy Options
for Sustainable Tourism’ Ecotrans – Principal Author, providing an assessment
of European tourism sector sustainability issues.
- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Southern Portugal Green
Belt - Project Co-ordinator, developing a bio-regional analysis of Southern
Portugal for the purposes of biodiversity conservation.
