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Sustainable Tourism and the Grand Challenge of Climate Change
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 1966, p 1966 (2021), Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 4
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Global climate change represents a grand challenge for society, one that is increasingly influencing tourism sector investment, planning, operations, and demand. The paper provides an overview of the core challenges climate change poses to sustainable tourism, key knowledge gaps, and the state of preparedness in the tourism sector. As we begin what is widely considered a decisive climate decade, low sectoral preparedness should be highly disconcerting for the tourism community. Put bluntly, what we have done for the past 30 years has not prepared the sector for the next 30 years of accelerating climate change impacts and the transformation to a decarbonized global economy. The transition from two decades of awareness raising and ambition setting to a decade of determined collective response has massive knowledge requirements and necessitates broad sectoral commitments to: (1) improved communications and knowledge mobilization, (2) increased research capacity and interdisciplinary collaboration, and (3) strategic policy and planning engagement. We in the tourism and sustainability communities must answer this clarion call to shape the future of tourism in a decarbonized and post +3 °C world, for there can be no sustainable tourism if we fail on climate change.
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Economic policy
Geography, Planning and Development
Climate change
TJ807-830
climate risk
adaptation
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
Political science
0502 economics and business
GE1-350
sustainable tourism
Knowledge mobilization
Sustainable tourism
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
decarbonization
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Climate risk
05 social sciences
Global warming
sustainable development goals
Environmental sciences
climate change
Preparedness
Sustainability
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
Tourism
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 1966
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e13802acb67824712c6dd427edb570d9