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Growing up in a tourist destination: developing an environmental sensitivity
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Growing up in a tourist destination: developing an environmental sensitivity

Antonia Canosa, Anne Graham and Erica Wilson
Environmental education research, Vol.26(7), pp.1027-1042
2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2020.1768224
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Abstract

environmental stewardship childhood studies Environmental sensitivity significant life experiences children Policy and Administration Tourism Tourism
This paper explores how the socio-cultural milieu of a community may foster a sense of environmental stewardship among children and young people. Ethnographic fieldwork, carried out in a popular tourist destination in Australia, revealed that the overt impacts of tourism activity such as littering provoke negative feelings among children and young people; these perceptions can in turn translate into a sensitivity towards the environment. While debated in some circles, a Significant Life Experiences (SLE) lens is useful in understanding children and young people's lived experiences of - and sensitivity to - environmental issues in the communities where they are raised. SLE is employed in this article to explore how a sense of stewardship towards the environment is developed among children and young people growing up in a tourist destination. Findings suggest they actively contribute to protecting the environment in a variety of ways from regular beach clean ups and educating visiting tourists to participating in rallies and anti-development protests.

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