Chapter 14 Sustainability
DOI: 10.23912/9781911635352-4730 | ISBN: 9781911635352 |
Published: December 2020 | Component type: chapter |
Published in: Tourism Theories, Concepts and Models | Parent DOI: 10.23912/9781911635352-4280 |
Abstract
During the early 1980s, it became apparent that major global environmental changes were occurring suddenly and silently and were only beginning to be recognized as an emerging threat by the global scientific community. Scholars and an increasing number of citizens became aware that there was a growing element of uncertainty and risk from human activities on global environments The establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and endorsed later by the General Assembly of the United Nations was a major step in focusing the global community’s attention to the problem. At that time, moderate environmentalists were wrestling with the idea that we can live in a world where economic development and economic pressures for both developing and developed countries would continue. Short- term pressures to develop national economies (along with the social benefits that derive from it) were considered by policy makers to outweigh long-term potential impacts from that development process. In other words, we failed to ask the question of how can a sustainable economy be developed that integrates both industrial and ecological needs? More recently, advocates of degrowth suggest a more radical change to how the global economy functions. While it is unrealistic to suggest that the solution to our environmental woes would be to wind back the global economy, growing concerns about sea level rise, ecosystem collapse and the emergence of other global ecological crises challenge the idea that it is possible to promote economic growth while maintaining environmental protection. This chapter explores a range of issues related to sustainable development in general and sustainable tourism in particular. It begins with an overview of the concept of sustainable development before moving onto a discussion of sustainable tourism. The chapter then discusses the range of models and concepts that have been developed to monitor asustainability.
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- Bob McKercher, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Author) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7451-1266
- Bruce Prideaux, Central Queensland University, Australia (Author) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3577-1951
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- Bob McKercher, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Author) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7451-1266
- Bruce Prideaux, Central Queensland University, Australia (Author) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3577-1951
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McKercher, B. & Prideaux, B. (2020) "Chapter 14 Sustainability" In: McKercher, B. & Prideaux, B. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911635352-4730
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