Understanding stakeholder perceptions of environmental justice: a study of tourism in the Erhai Lake basin, Yunnan province, China

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecology and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.5751/es-14424-280401

Li Peng, Linsi He, Mengting Shen, Min Zhao, Christopher Armatas

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Abstract

Environmental justice is an important component of sustainable tourism, but stakeholder perspectives related to environmental justice may vary. Using Q-methodology, we investigated different stakeholder perceptions related to environmental justice within the context of tourism and ecological restoration. Specifically, in the Erhai Lake basin, China, we explore perspectives around an ecological restoration effort that included the government mandated closure of 1900 establishments (inns and restaurants) in response to environmental degradation. We identify and explore four environmental justice perspectives: the togetherness, protection, operator loss, and local loss perspectives. These four perspectives are contextualized within three dimensions of environmental justice (i.e., distribution, recognition, and participation). Our findings highlight differing views related to who is affected most by the inn closures (e.g., future generations, local residents, inn owners), and general consensus related to the outcomes of the process being more important than the process itself. Finally, we discuss potential reasons for these differing perspectives and recommend ways to improve environmental justice among different stakeholders. This research can facilitate sustainable development of tourism by highlighting the facets of ecological restoration policy implementation most important to stakeholders, including recognition of diverse stakeholder concerns and identities, clear and well supported rationale for policy design, and increased equity in the distribution of costs and benefits of policies.

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理解利益相关者对环境正义的看法:基于云南洱海流域旅游业的研究

环境正义是可持续旅游的重要组成部分，但利益相关者对环境正义的看法可能有所不同。使用q -方法论，我们调查了旅游和生态恢复背景下不同利益相关者对环境正义的看法。具体而言，在中国洱海流域，我们探讨了围绕生态恢复工作的观点，其中包括政府下令关闭1900家机构(旅馆和餐馆)以应对环境恶化。我们确定并探讨了四种环境正义的观点:团结、保护、经营者损失和当地损失的观点。这四种观点在环境正义的三个维度(即分配、承认和参与)中被语境化。我们的研究结果突出了关于谁受酒店关闭影响最大的不同观点(例如，后代，当地居民，酒店所有者)，以及与过程结果相关的普遍共识比过程本身更重要。最后，我们讨论了这些不同观点的潜在原因，并提出了在不同利益相关者之间改善环境正义的方法。本研究通过突出生态恢复政策实施对利益相关者最重要的方面，包括认识利益相关者的不同关注点和身份，明确和有充分支持的政策设计理由，以及增加政策成本和收益分配的公平性，从而促进旅游业的可持续发展。

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Ecology and Society 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

4.90%

发文量

109

审稿时长

3 months

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