Pro-Poor Mountain Tourism

About

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® SERIOUS PLAY® 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.