Environmental myopia: The case for bifocals

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dc.contributor.authorNorth, Chris
dc.contributor.authorHutson G
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-03T22:05:06Z
dc.date.available2024-11-03T22:05:06Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractDomestic and international tourists have major impacts on Aotearoa/New Zealand, both positive and negative. In 2010, tourism was the biggest export earner and continues to grow. Environmental consequences of tourism are also growing. Ways of addressing the environmental impacts caused by a mobile society continue to be debated from a variety of practical and theoretical positions. Place-based approaches are a logical discussion focus in addressing these types of social and environmental problems but may be associated with environmental myopia. Tourism, mobility and the principles of environmental education programs such as Leave No Trace are all contested topics within the place-based discourse. This article discusses these tensions and proposes an expansion of place-based and cosmopolitan approaches, with the Leave No Trace Aotearoa/New Zealand campaign presented as an example. The article concludes with possible implications of a more bifocal approach for environmental educators. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011.
dc.identifier.citationNorth C, Hutson G (2012). Environmental myopia: The case for bifocals. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. 27(2). 229-237.
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1375/ajee.27.2.229
dc.identifier.issn0814-0626
dc.identifier.issn2049-775X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/107600
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stated
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectleave no trace
dc.subjecttourism
dc.subjectplace-based approaches
dc.subjectcosmopolitanism
dc.subjectmobility
dc.subject.anzsrc35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3508 - Tourism::350801 - Impacts of tourism
dc.subject.anzsrc41 - Environmental sciences::4104 - Environmental management::410403 - Environmental education and extension
dc.subject.anzsrc41 - Environmental sciences::4104 - Environmental management::410404 - Environmental management
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4406 - Human geography::440608 - Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
dc.titleEnvironmental myopia: The case for bifocals
dc.typeJournal Article
uc.collegeFaculty of Health
uc.departmentSchool of Health Sciences
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