Issue Date
2017-03-20Subjects
ecosystem servicessustainable tourism
sub-global assessment
Subject Categories::N890 Tourism, Transport and Travel not elsewhere classified
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Published in 2005, the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) stressed that influencing governments, businesses and communities to address the supra-national challenge of limiting biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation requires a fuller understanding of the range of values and benefits people derive from ecosystems, including tourism. The MA was informed by, and has shaped, several conceptually and methodologically distinctive sub-global assessments (SGAs) of ecosystem services. Through content analysis, this paper is the first detailed examination of how tourism features in 14 extant SGAs identified in a database held by a major supra-national environmental organization. Although the SGAs should have incorporated the widest range of specialist subject expertise, tourism scholars played only peripheral roles in producing them even for territories where tourism is a significant land use. The SGAs examined did not benefit from the extensive body of knowledge relating to sustainable tourism. Limited portrayals of tourism restrict the capacity of SGAs in their current format as management solutions. It is also contradictory to the ethos, principles and purpose of ecosystem assessments. With the ecosystem services perspective set to become more important to policy and decision making, the paper argues for greater incorporation of recent progress in sustainable tourism in ecosystem assessment.Citation
Church A, Coles T, Fish R (2017) 'Tourism in sub-global assessments of ecosystem services', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 25 (11), pp.1529-1546.Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Journal of Sustainable TourismAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09669582.2017.1291649?journalCode=rsus20Type
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0966-9582EISSN
1747-7646ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/09669582.2017.1291649
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