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ABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of Christian Becker’s (2012) model of sustainability ethics, and secondly, to indicate what sustainability ethics would look like in tourism, using this model. Becker's primary focus is recognition of the inherent ethical dimension in sustainability. What underlies all of the various issues, problems, and challenges in sustainable development, therefore, is the belief that we are really faced with is a series of ethical challenges both in research and practice. Three main elements of this model are discussed. These include (1) relations to other contemporaries, i.e. people of the present day, future generations, and our relationship with nature; (2) finding the right type of ethics that fits with the demands of ethical beings and systems now and in the future; and (3) a discussion of the broad and complex social and global systems, meta-structures, that play an important role in how people relate to each other and the natural world. The case of the Upper Navua River, Fiji, is used as an example of how Becker's model can be used in tourism practice.
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Notes on contributor
David A. Fennell researches mainly in the areas of ecotourism, tourism ethics, and moral issues tied to the use of animals in the tourism industry. A major thrust of his research involves the use of theory from other disciplines (e.g., biology, philosophy) to gain traction on many of tourism’s most persistent issues and problems. Fennell is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ecotourism and is an active member on editorial boards of many academic journals.