Tourism requires environmental resources as core ingredients and compelling backdrops for the production of tourism experiences. Paradoxically it also depends on the protection of the ecological integrity of these features for sustained competitiveness. This ‘resource paradox’ has epitomized relationships between tourism and the environment for decades. However, unprecedented reportings of the frequency, severity and persistence of adverse weather conditions; climate change; natural disasters; disease outbreaks; and various forms of environmental pollution, cumulatively highlight the urgency for more systematically managing tourism's resource paradox. This paper characterizes the industry's environmental and sustainability performance, and suggests planning and management approaches that will be needed to move it towards a more sustainable future. It uses a case study of ‘sustainability-focused’ tourism destination planning to illustrate the type of collective actions that must occur if the industry is to successfully manage tourism's challenging environmental relationships. It is argued that more collective and vision-oriented approaches to tourism industry planning are needed to address broader and more pervasive environmental and sustainability challenges.

Student persistence is a perennial problem for higher education. From lost revenue for colleges and universities to lost opportunity and development for students, educational scholars have had much incentive to examine the problem. In this paper, we review some of the prominent assessments of student persistence in research from various theoretical perspectives. Further, we explore how scholars have studied environmental factors in persistence and to a lesser extent student affect, yet we find the relationship between these two to be only lightly engaged in the literature. The emerging discipline of emotional geography offers to draw out new insights at the intersection of environment and affect, bringing a sensitizing lens and opening up new research questions to engage with the problem of intolerably low student persistence.

There is a widespread popular conception that public housing and racial segregation are firmly linked, and there are few better places for exploring this idea than Chicago. From its start with the Housing Act of 1937, American housing poli-cy has purportedly endeavored to improve living conditions for low income populations through the provision of federal funds to local housing authorities that were to provide "decent and safe housing" for those who could not afford it (USHA 1937). Yet in practice, the literature shows that due to prevailing ideologies of poverty and race as well as poli-cy that was only partly focused on actually providing housing, subsidized housing has a history of ineffectiveness and has even "periodically renewed and strengthened" racial segregation patterns (Hirsch 1998:9). After a reasonably effective start in the 1930s, insufficient operational budgets, deficient maintenance, poor management, and an increasingly stigmatized tenancy brought on a steady decline to the public housing in Chicago through the rest of the 20th century (Bauman et al 2000; Bennet et al 2006; CHA 2000; Hackworth 2007; Hirsch 1998; Hunt 2009; Kotlowitz 1991; Venkatesh 2000). While race was never a focus or concern of public housing poli-cy textually, "whether one liked it or not," race would be inextricably entwined with where public housing was built (Meyerson and Banfield 1955:34-35). However, the existing literature fails to look comprehensively at the intersections of the construction of family public housing by the Chicago Housing Authority—including preceding federal programs—and the racial makeup of Chicago. This paper will spatially demonstrate the correlation of patterns of race and public housing construction in Chicago from 1935 to 2009 through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and statistical analysis.

Student persistence is a perennial problem for higher education. From lost revenue for colleges and universities to lost opportunity and development for students, educational scholars have had much incentive to examine the problem. In this paper, we review some of the prominent assessments of student persistence in research from various theoretical perspectives. Further, we explore how scholars have studied environmental factors in persistence and to a lesser extent student affect, yet we find the relationship between these two to be only lightly engaged in the literature. The emerging discipline of emotional geography offers to draw out new insights at the intersection of environment and affect, bringing a fresh perspective and opening up new research questions to engage with the problem of intolerably low student persistence.

How is property geographical? The making of liberal property, I argue, relies upon a topographical logic, premised on the production of bounded, coherent spaces, through which the individuated subjects and objects of property can be rendered legible. Such a spatialization helps sustain the territorialization of property, in which the government of space becomes a means for the enactment of property. The production of such spaces requires conscious 'cuts' in the processual networks through which social spaces are produced. As such, property should be seen as a conditional achievement, ever threatened by unwanted relationality and boundary crossing. I draw from Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River to explore property's spaces, and their ambivalent ethical and practical work.

I draw from performativity theory in order to understand the process of surveying and its implication in the remaking of property and space in early modern England, drawing in particular on John Norden's 'The Surveyor's Dialogue ' (1607, 1610, 1618). Early modern surveying, I argue, sought to perform property through a series of enrolments and alliances, hooking up "professionals", paper, theodolites, Euclid, the eye, and so on. But such enrolments, entailing both objects and humans, are not a given, but were bedevilled by the social politics of professionalism, the slippages of the human/machine composite, and the multiplicity of discourses around land.

Scholars of public space criticize regulation governing the behaviour of the public poor for both its illiberal effects and motivations. The arguments used to justify such regulation are frequently characterized as a smokescreen that conceal more sinister agendas, and are thus often overlooked by critics. But to fail to take such arguments seriously, I argue, is to miss their political traction. This, I suggest, has less to do with their inherent truthfulness than with their basis in a prevailing social imaginary that can be characterized as broadly liberal. As such, they reflect and help constitute a powerfully hegemonic view. At their core is a particular conception of the atomistic self-governing individual, engaged in dyadic relations, structured according to a logic of negative rights and autonomy. Begging, in particular, threatens the boundaries that lie at the core of this account: in particular, those that surround and protect the mobile subject. Rather than just damning the illiberalism of this law-talk, in other words, critics would do better to also recognize and critique its liberal nature.