Abstract

'Net-zero emissions' has emerged as a common international response to tackling a protracted global environmental crisis. Climate change has functioned, and continues to take place, simultaneously to other crises of different types, durations and geographical scales. While progress has been made in understanding tourism in climate change policy and vice versa, there has been very little work on how tourism features in approaches to addressing other major crises and how these may impact on climate change ambitions. This paper addresses this lacuna by examining how tourism features in concurrent UK government approaches to the climate crisis and to a political crisis, Brexit, between 2016 and 2019, with special reference to aviation as a major pivot between the two. Existing tourism studies have mainly focussed on environmental crises in isolation. This paper argues for greater investigation and consideration of the positioning, coincidence and interaction effects among different forms and scales of crises. Through the Tourism Sector Deal, tourism has been cast as a source of economic growth and resilience after Brexit but, heavily depending on aviation emissions, it has significant potential to confound the UK government's ambitions for net-zero Emissions.

摘要

“零净排放”已经成为应对旷日持久的全球环境危机的国际共识。气候变化与其他类型，持续时间和地域规模的危机同时发生并持续发生。尽管在了解旅游业对气候变化政策的理解方面取得了进展，反之亦然，但在解决旅游业如何应对其他重大危机以及这些危机如何影响气候变化雄心方面的工作还很少。这篇论文通过研究英国政府在2016年至2019年间同时应对气候危机和政治危机（英国脱欧）的旅游业特点如何解决这一空白，特别提到了航空是两者之间的主要枢纽。现有的旅游研究主要集中在孤立地处理环境危机上。本文主张对不同形式和规模的危机之间的定位，巧合和互动影响进行更深入的研究和考虑。通过《旅游部门协议》，旅游已被视为英国退欧后的经济增长和抵御力的来源，但在很大程度上取决于航空排放，它具有极大的潜力使英国政府的净零排放雄心感到困惑。