Towards a better world

The preparation of the book Towards a Better World, Tourism. Pandemics, Climate Emergency and Human Rights, took place between March 11 and December 1, 2020, is organized into three chapters: Chapter I Global Education (three articles); Chapter II COVID 19 Pandemic Implications for Physical and Mental Health and the Economic, Social and Cultural Crisis (five articles); Chapter III Climate Emergency, Pandemic, Tourism, Human Rights and Peace (seven articles). The photo on the cover, on the Ria Formosa, in Faro, Algarve, over the Atlantic Ocean, unites three continents, Africa, America and Europe. The target audience for this book is comprehensive and takes a holistic, inter/transdisciplinary, complex and ecological paradigmatic approach. This work is aimed at teachers, researchers, students, professionals in the fields of health, the environment, tourism, ethics and human rights and peace.It is a collective book written by sixteen authors from various countries, consisting of professors, doctors, pharmacists, economists, sociologists, ecologists and tourism studies academics. Coord: Joمo Viegas Fernandes and Filomena Maurيcio Fernandes