Sustainability and Shifting Paradigms in Tourism

Something important changed the world 50 years ago. It was in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s when the realization of fast approaching limits to growth came down like a hammer, striking a strong blow on business-as-usual world political and socio-economic paradigms. Of course, classical eco...

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Main Author: Eduardo Fayos-Solá
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Investigación Social y Turismo 2015-12-01
Series:PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural
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Online Access:http://ojsull.webs.ull.es/index.php/Revista/article/view/986
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description Something important changed the world 50 years ago. It was in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s when the realization of fast approaching limits to growth came down like a hammer, striking a strong blow on business-as-usual world political and socio-economic paradigms. Of course, classical economists like Malthus had already sounded a warning 150 years before. Then, scientific and technological advances postponed the inevitable. Finally, the Club of Rome thinkers and two oil crises dispelled the illusion of limitless growth in a small planet, with the controversy being retaken afresh in the 21st century.
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spelling doaj.art-b7337e0951fe481da1267f30d15630b42022-12-21T23:51:27ZengInstituto de Investigación Social y TurismoPASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural1695-71212015-12-0113610.25145/j.pasos.2015.13.090Sustainability and Shifting Paradigms in TourismEduardo Fayos-Solá Something important changed the world 50 years ago. It was in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s when the realization of fast approaching limits to growth came down like a hammer, striking a strong blow on business-as-usual world political and socio-economic paradigms. Of course, classical economists like Malthus had already sounded a warning 150 years before. Then, scientific and technological advances postponed the inevitable. Finally, the Club of Rome thinkers and two oil crises dispelled the illusion of limitless growth in a small planet, with the controversy being retaken afresh in the 21st century. http://ojsull.webs.ull.es/index.php/Revista/article/view/986SustainabilityParadigmTheory
spellingShingle Eduardo Fayos-Solá
Sustainability and Shifting Paradigms in Tourism
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title Sustainability and Shifting Paradigms in Tourism
title_full Sustainability and Shifting Paradigms in Tourism
title_fullStr Sustainability and Shifting Paradigms in Tourism
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability and Shifting Paradigms in Tourism
title_short Sustainability and Shifting Paradigms in Tourism
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topic Sustainability
Paradigm
Theory
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