First comprehensive exploration of climate justice in tourism, critically examining how tourism is both a catalyst to the crisis but also a victim of its impacts.
This book provides the first comprehensive exploration of climate justice in tourism, critically examining how tourism contributes to and is impacted by the global climate crisis. It offers a multidimensional justice framework to unpack systemic injustices embedded in tourism and climate governance.
With global case studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, the book interrogates dominant growth-centric, colonial and anthropocentric tourism models, and calls for radical transitions toward just, decolonised and regenerative futures. It bridges theory and practice by providing both critical diagnoses and constructive pathways for a climate-just tourism transformation.
It is a useful resource for postgraduate students, researchers, academics, policymakers and practitioners working in tourism, climate change, environmental justice and sustainable development. It is also valuable for advanced undergraduate courses that engage with tourism, justice, sustainability and global development.
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Addressed in critical detail by a refreshingly diverse range of authors, this book offers the first comprehensive treatment of climate justice in tourism. Crucially, it does so in ways that reach beyond carbon emissions to attend to the systemic injustices of anthropocentrism, colonialism, neoliberalism and globalisation. This book should be compulsory reading for those with interests in, and responsibilities for, reshaping tourism development in respect to equity and justice. * James Higham, Griffith University, Australia * This necessary volume examines tourism's entanglement with climate injustice across diverse geographies. From carbon offsetting's colonial dynamics to Indigenous frameworks for regenerative hosting, Climate Justice in Tourism reveals structural inequities while offering practical pathways toward justice. A vital resource for scholars and practitioners committed to transforming tourism beyond extractive paradigms and toward equitable, decolonial futures. * Farhana Sultana, Syracuse University, USA * This is the most rigorous and uncompromising examination of climate justice in tourism I've encountered. It exposes the systemic injustices our industry has long avoided and offers a multidimensional justice framework for a radical paradigm shift toward equitable, decolonial futures. An essential read for tourism practitioners and scholars who care about climate change and are committed to just climate action. * Vincie Ho, Founder and Executive Director, RISE Travel Institute and Adjunct Faculty, Antioch University, USA *
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First comprehensive exploration of climate justice in tourism, critically examining how tourism is both a catalyst to the crisis but also a victim of its impacts
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Contributors
Acronyms
Jeremy Smith: Foreword
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Raymond Rastegar and Roshis Krishna Shrestha:
Introduction: Climate Change, Polycrisis and the Climate Justice Imperative
in Tourism
Part 1: The Challenge of Climate Change for the Tourism Sector, Destinations
and Communities
1. Ya-Yen Sun, Futu Faturay and Wanru Zhou: Tourism in a Warming World: Who
Emits and Who Pays the Price?
2. Shenshen He, Bobbie Chew Bigby, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bryan
Grimwood: Climate (In)Justice in Tourism: Meanings and Perspectives from
Industry and Academic Leaders
3. Gerben Broekema, Vishal Babajee, Ramón Fisac García and Daniel Scott:
Towards a Just Transition in Aviation Climate Policy: Implications for
Tourism
Part 2: Governance (In)Justices in Tourism
4. Angel Sulub and Daniela Subtil Fialho: Stay Grounded: Re-Imagining Tourism
for a Grounded Climate-Just Future
5. Nirmal Mani Dahal and Sudhan Subedi: Climate Justice in Nepals Tourism
Sector: Confronting Water Scarcity and Systemic Inequities
6. Mimi Sheller, Leah Trotman, Gregory Guannel and Kim Waddell: Tourism
Mobilities, Climate Mobilities and Mobility Injustice in the US Virgin
Islands
Part 3: Case Studies in Climate (In)Justice in Tourism
7. Judy Kepher Gona and Lucy Atieno: Carbon Offsetting and Rights of Tourism
Hosting Communities in Kenyas Conservancies
8. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Andrea Bibee: The Nexus of Environmental Justice and
Potential for Sustainable Tourism under Colonial Occupation in Palestine
9. Monica Nadegger and Carina Ren: Affective Solidarity in Melting
Destinations: Stepping Forward, Standing With and Staying Connected to
Climate Justice
Part 4: Imagining More Just Tourism Futures
10. Kehana Andrews, Jerry Spooner, Laurana Rakau-Tokatake, Eva Addinsall and
Cherise Addinsall: The Regenerative Vanua Stewardship Framework: Ol Vanuas
blong yumi oli no ol showgrounds blong ol turis! (Our Vanuas are not
Destinations)
11. Freya Higgins-Desbiolles: No Climate Justice without Gender Justice and
Racial Justice: A Critical Feminist Analysis
12. Freya Higgins-Desbiolles: Deep Adaptation, Climate Justice and Tourism
Futures
Roshis Krishna Shrestha, Raymond Rastegar and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles:
Conclusion: Advancing Climate Justice Pathways Forward for More Just
Tourism Futures
Index
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is Adjunct, Business Unit, Adelaide University, Australia and Adjunct Professor, Taylor's University, Malaysia.
Raymond Rastegar is Lecturer in Tourism at Griffith University, Australia.
Roshis Krishna Shrestha is Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
