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- Title
Environmental Groups Treading the Discursive Tightrope of Social License: Australian and Canadian Cases Compared.
- Authors
MCGAURR, LYN; LESTER, LIBBY
- Abstract
Environmental nongovernmental organizations are often challenged to engage in economic debates. One response is to frame contested or protected areas and species as tourism assets. In this exploratory comparative study, we examine the discourse of environmentalists and members of the tourism sector in Australia and Canada for evidence they frame tourism as a social license to protect. We find environmentalists and sympathetic ecotourism operators frame successful activism in scenic places with a history of intense environmental conflict as an investment in tourism and the local economy. This makes a case for protection from extractive industries, but falters when the adversary is tourism itself.
- Subjects
GREEN movement; DISCURSIVE practices; SOCIAL license to operate; TOURISM; ECOLOGICAL modernization
- Publication
International Journal of Communication (19328036), 2017, Vol 11, p3476
- ISSN
1932-8036
- Publication type
Article