Beyond the biosphere: tourism, outer space, and sustainability
公開日 2017年03月22日
国際観光学研究センター（CTR）専任研究員であるAdam Doering准教授の共著論文がツーリズムの電子ジャーナルに掲載されました。
論文タイトル
Beyond the biosphere: tourism, outer space, and sustainability
著者
Samuel Spector, Department of Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
James E.S. Higham, Norwegian School of Hotel Management, University of Stavanger, Norway
Adam Doering, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan
書誌事項
Tourism Recreation Research, 02/14/2017, pp.1-11
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2017.1286062
要旨
Dominant sustainability discourses commonly situate Earth as the singular realm of human influence and position modern mobility as one of the primary means through which we are destroying the biosphere. The commercialisation of activities in outer space and the development of space tourism have resulted in drastically reduced launch costs, enabling an increased human presence beyond the biosphere. This paper argues that current debates concerning the relationship between tourism mobilities and sustainability are marked by increasingly untenable assumptions concerning the spatial and temporal parameters of human influence. We critique those assumptions by introducing the concept of a sustainable trajectory to examine the relationship between modern mobility and sustainability, a relationship that is being redefined by the rapidly advancing fields of commercial spaceflight and space tourism. Greater attention to space tourism and commercial spaceflights is required in order to develop a coherent, long-term conceptualisation of the implications of modern mobility for sustainability.
キーワード
Spaceflight, commercial spaceflight, space tourism, tourism mobility, sustainability
