Climate Change, Time and Tourism Knowledge: The Relativity of Simultaneity

Schweinsberg, S; Darcy, S

Climate Change, Time and Tourism Knowledge: The Relativity of Simultaneity

Schweinsberg, S

Darcy, S

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Publisher:: MDPI
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Sustainability (Switzerland), 2022, 14, (23), pp. 16220
Issue Date:: 2022-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Schweinsberg, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8820-8302
dc.contributor.author	Darcy, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5394-2566
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-16T09:46:35Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-16T09:46:35Z
dc.date.issued	2022-12-01
dc.identifier.citation	Sustainability (Switzerland), 2022, 14, (23), pp. 16220
dc.identifier.issn	2071-1050
dc.identifier.issn	2071-1050
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/169819
dc.description.abstract	Climate clocks are currently ticking down to a point in time when it will be impossible to arrest the rate of CO2 emissions within the bounds of the parameters set by the Paris Climate Agreement. The tourism academy has been at the forefront of efforts to draw attention to the climate threat and to develop adaptation and mitigation responses in conjunction with industry. However, whilst the tourism academy is generally said to be in lock-step with the urgency of the climate threat and tourism’s need to respond, outliers do exist. Why might a tourism scholar view the urgency of the climate threat differently from his or her colleagues? Drawing on conceptual insights from Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, the present paper explores the sociological framing of time in relation to tourism academics and the implications for the development of a tourism knowledge force-field as a foundation for tourism knowledge creation.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	MDPI
dc.relation.ispartof	Sustainability (Switzerland)
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.3390/su142316220
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	12 Built Environment and Design
dc.title	Climate Change, Time and Tourism Knowledge: The Relativity of Simultaneity
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	14
utslib.for	12 Built Environment and Design
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Centre for Health Technologies (CHT)
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dc.date.updated	2023-04-16T09:46:18Z
pubs.issue	23
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	14
utslib.citation.issue	23

Abstract:

Climate clocks are currently ticking down to a point in time when it will be impossible to arrest the rate of CO2 emissions within the bounds of the parameters set by the Paris Climate Agreement. The tourism academy has been at the forefront of efforts to draw attention to the climate threat and to develop adaptation and mitigation responses in conjunction with industry. However, whilst the tourism academy is generally said to be in lock-step with the urgency of the climate threat and tourism’s need to respond, outliers do exist. Why might a tourism scholar view the urgency of the climate threat differently from his or her colleagues? Drawing on conceptual insights from Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, the present paper explores the sociological framing of time in relation to tourism academics and the implications for the development of a tourism knowledge force-field as a foundation for tourism knowledge creation.

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