Hall, C. Michael, Amelung, Bas, Cohen, Scott, Eijgelaar, Eke, Gössling, Stefan, Higham, James, Leemans, Rik, Peeters, Paul, Ram, Yael, Scott, Daniel, Aall, Carlo, Abegg, Bruno, Araña, Jorge E., Barr, Stewart, Becken, Susanne, Buckley, Ralf, Burns, Peter, Coles, Tim, Dawson, Jackie, Doran, Rouven, Dubois, Ghislain, Duval, David Timothy, Fennell, David, Gill, Alison M., Gren, Martin, Gronau, Werner, Guiver, Jo, Hopkins, Debbie, Huijbens, Edward H., Koens, Ko, Lamers, Machiel, Lemieux, Christopher, Lew, Alan, Long, Patrick, Melissen, Frans W., Nawijn, Jeroen, Nicholls, Sarah, Nilsson, Jan-Henrik, Nunkoo, Robin, Pomering, Alan, Reis, Arianne C., Reiser, Dirk, Richardson, Robert B., Rogerson, Christian M., Saarinen, Jarkko, Sæþórsdóttir, Anna Dóra, Steiger, Robert, Upham, Paul, van der Linden, Sander, Visser, Gustav, Wall, Geoffrey and Weaver, David (2015) No time for smokescreen skepticism: a rejoinder to Shani and Arad. Tourism Management, 47. pp. 341-347. ISSN 0261-5177
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Shani and Arad (2014) claimed that tourism scholars tend to endorse the most pessimistic assessments regarding climate change, and that anthropogenic climate change was a “fashionable” and “highly controversial scientific topic”. This brief rejoinder provides the balance that is missing from such climate change denial and skepticism studies on climate change and tourism. Recent research provides substantial evidence that reports on anthropogenic climate change are accurate, and that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, including from the tourism industry, play a significant role in climate change. Some positive net effects may be experienced by some destinations in the short-term, but in the long-term all elements of the tourism system will be impacted. The expansion of tourism emissions at a rate greater than efficiency gains means that it is increasingly urgent that the tourism sector acknowledge, accept and respond to climate change. Debate on tourism-related adaptation and mitigation measures is to be encouraged and welcomed. Climate change denial is not.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/tourism-managemen... |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2014 14:18 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2024 06:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/60192 |
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