Chapter 4 Sustainable Tourism Policy Frameworks
DOI: 10.23912/9781911396734-4242 | ISBN: 9781911396734 |
Published: July 2019 | Component type: chapter |
Published in: An Introduction to Sustainable Tourism | Parent DOI: 10.23912/9781911396734-4151 |
Abstract
Having looked at the external and internal challenges facing the move towards more sustainable tourism, and the impacts of tourism, you should now be wondering how sustainability in tourism can be turned into more than an ideal. Perhaps one of the most obvious way to achieve this is simply to regulate the sector. After all regulation worked for the ozone layer: scientists raised the alarm in the 1970s that a hole was appearing in the atmosphere’s ozone layer, caused by Ozone Depleting Substances or ODS (most notably CFCs) and resulting in adverse effects on human health and the environment. By 1987 the Montreal Protocol was established to phase out the use of ODS, and by June 2015, all countries in the United Nations, the Cook Islands, Holy See, Niue and the supranational European Union had ratified the original Protocol. The result was a 98% drop in ODS since ratification, and the hole is expected to have fully repaired itself by 2050. A significant achievement in terms of international cooperation, based on scientific advice.
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- Alexandra Coghlan, Griffith University (Author) 0000-0001-6367-4254
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Coghlan, A. (2019) "Chapter 4 Sustainable Tourism Policy Frameworks" In: Coghlan, A. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911396734-4242
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