Rural Tourism Production and the Experience-Scape

Careful investigations of the supply-side components of tourism are critical to the creation of informed public policy that addresses amenity production, regional change, and integrative tourism planning. In this article we develop a conceptual basis of the rural tourism experience from a supply perspective that includes latent inputs, joint productivity, and the experience-scape within a capability framework. these tourism building blocks allow for alternative compatibility and sustainability outcomes resulting from rural tourism development. the analysis suggests implications for planning and policy analysis that span economic, social, and environmental issues central to rural regions and their communities.

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Goals and functions of public argumentation

10.31235/osf.io/ezub8 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Frank Zenker ◽

Jan Albert van Laar ◽

Pedro Abreu ◽

Mette Bengtsson ◽

Paula Castro ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Analysis ◽

Working Group ◽

Position Paper ◽

Conceptual Basis ◽

European Network ◽

Cost Action ◽

Subsequent Research ◽

Public Policy Analysis ◽

Group 2

This position paper of Working Group 2 of the European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (COST Action CA17132; https://publicpolicyargument.eu) reviews goals and functions of public argumentation. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the paper introduces basic distinctions and charts out options. It is meant to guide reflection on the conceptual basis for the Action’s subsequent research regarding the analysis, evaluation, and design of public argumentation.

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Sustainable Tourism: The Elephant in the Room

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13158376 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 8376

Author(s):

Thomas Bausch ◽

Tilman Schröder ◽

Verena Tauber ◽

Bernard Lane

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Research Methodology ◽

Sustainable Tourism ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Supply Side ◽

Tourism Marketing ◽

Precise Understanding ◽

Intercultural Differences

Research on sustainability and sustainable tourism has thus far avoided evaluating how tourists actually understand these terms. Instead, scholars have focused on the supply side, presuming a common and precise understanding of sustainability and sustainable tourism among all tourists and stakeholders. This study shows that most consumers link sustainability only to environmental issues, and understand sustainability differently from sustainable tourism. It finds significant interpersonal and intercultural differences regarding consumers’ conceptualisations of sustainability. The results illustrate that empirical research methodology for conceptualising consumers’ sustainability understanding frequently is doubtful or weak. This research exposes tourists’ limited understanding of sustainability, and helps tackle widespread scepticism about the effectiveness of sustainable tourism, by creating better informed sustainable tourism marketing.

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Ethics and Public Policy

News for Teachers of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0197901900001902 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 29 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

George J. Graham

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Analysis ◽

Policy Process ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Policy Choice ◽

Single Text ◽

Public Policy Analysis ◽

The Government ◽

New Framework ◽

Selection Of

The purpose of this course is to introduce a new framework linking the humanities to public policy analysis as pursued in the government and the academy. Current efforts to link the particular contributions from the humanities to problems of public policy choice are often narrow either in terms of their perspective on the humanities or in terms of their selection of the possible means of influencing policy choice. Sometimes a single text from one of the humanities disciplines is selected to apply to a particular issue. At other times, arguments about the ethical dimensions of a single policy issue often are pursued with a single — or sometimes, no — point of access to the policy process in mind.

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A Study on the Development Trend of China’s Information of Construction Industry: A Perspective of Public Policy Analysis

ICCREM 2017 ◽

10.1061/9780784481066.042 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Shan Zhou ◽

Shaoyan Wu

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Analysis ◽

Construction Industry ◽

Development Trend ◽

Public Policy Analysis ◽

The Development Trend

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Of Higher Intentions and Lower Expectations

European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance ◽

10.1163/22134514-00203001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 187-211

Author(s):

Michael Bohlander

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Survey Questionnaire ◽

Research Project ◽

Islamic Jurisprudence ◽

Legal Thinking ◽

Main Instrument ◽

Case Based

The author had planned to work on a monograph related to the potential of using the maqāṣid in Islamic jurisprudence, uncoupled from their religious foundations, as a tool for the conversation with secular law and legal thinking, which by and large has shed its own religious roots and proceeded to an ethics-driven approach based on public policy or interest, and/or systemic logical coherence. The premise of the research project was that lawyers largely think the same thoughts and that they use different building blocks to construct rather similar-looking houses. The main instrument of the research was a survey questionnaire with a series of case-based scenarios sent to a number of Islamic scholars to provide the answers to the scenarios from the Shari’ah perspective. The survey failed in its entirety, so the research turned into an attempt to find the reasons for the failure. This paper will set out reflections on why it went wrong.

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