Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ruzza, Carlo

Titel

Environmental Sustainability and Tourism in European Policy-making

Ist Teil von

• Innovation (Abingdon, England), 2000-09, Vol.13 (3), p.291-310

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The paper analyses decision-making in the field of European environmental regulation and examines the implications for tourist policy. It is argued that European Union (EU) environmental policy is influenced by three factors: (1) the EU bureaucracy is interested in expanding its influence and power vis-à-vis national bureaucracies and polities; (2) Northern European countries have selectively recruited regulators with environmentally sympathetic ideologies; and (3) a pro-environmental attitude contributes to the societal legitimation of business. These considerations give a unique character to environmental policy-making, which over time has tended to spill over to thematically connected areas, including to tourism policy.