Climate science and tourism policy in Australasia: deficiencies in science-policy translation
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Loehr, Johanna
Hopkins, Debbie
Becken, Susanne
Stovall, Will
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This paper reviews tourism-relevant advances in climate science and tourism policy in the Australasia region over the past 20 years, focusing particularly on the seven years (2015–2021) since the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Within the Australasia region, Australia and New Zealand have a complicated relationship with climate change, as both countries are dependent upon stable climates for tourism while contributing to high tourism greenhouse gas emissions. Both are economically reliant on their respective tourism industries, which market environmental products to predominantly long-haul tourism markets. In this paper we critically address the climate change context in Australasia, reviewing the tourism systems, climate risks and carbon risks in the region. We critique the (dis)connection of climate change and tourism policy at the national scale in the region, and find that the extent of climate responses in relation to tourism are generally limited to descriptive (Generation 1) and normative (Generation 2) approaches. We conclude that serious deficiencies remain in the climate science – tourism policy translation required to transform the tourism systems of Australia and New Zealand in response to climate change.
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Journal of Sustainable Tourism
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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Journal of Sustainable Tourism. Higham, J; Loehr, J; Hopkins, D; Becken, S; Stovall, W, Climate science and tourism policy in Australasia: deficiencies in science-policy translation, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2022. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Higham, J; Loehr, J; Hopkins, D; Becken, S; Stovall, W, Climate science and tourism policy in Australasia: deficiencies in science-policy translation, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2022