ABSTRACT
Unprecedented changes in the Anthropocene call for urgent action on climate change and related impacts on environmental health and the well-being of human and nonhuman others. Notions of “sustainable development” and “sustainable tourism development” and “development” (in the context of international development) have been heavily criticized, however, and new ways of being and relating, and for addressing tourism-related inequalities and injustices are being sought. Chapter 5 takes up the challenge of seeking new understandings of “sustainability” in the context of tourism. Several contributors forward cases that speak to ecologically and culturally sensitive approaches to tourism, environmental heritage, and environmental justice. They discuss air travel and climate justice (Noel Healy and Weis), planning for sea level rise (Dawn Jourdan), ecotourism and the Galápagos (John Friebele), a community museum in Beijing (Mingqian Liu), heritage conservation on Alcatraz (Carolina Manrique), and sustainable tourism research (Bernard Lane).
