Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Golf Tourism

This article examines the issues and criticisms concerning golf, tourism, and the environment and considers how golf—tourism—environment relationships might achieve economic well-being for a region while avoiding vicious cycles of destruction to local environments and the quality of life of local re...

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Main Author: Woodside, Arch
Format: Journal Article
Published: SAGE Publications Inc 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47355
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description This article examines the issues and criticisms concerning golf, tourism, and the environment and considers how golf—tourism—environment relationships might achieve economic well-being for a region while avoiding vicious cycles of destruction to local environments and the quality of life of local residents. The examination proposes the use of systems thinking, cause mapping, and system dynamics modeling and simulations of golf, tourism, and environmental relationships to help achieve workable solutions agreeable to all stakeholders. Sustainable relationships that include golf, tourism, and environmental objectives require crafting government policies via stakeholder participation of all parties that such relationships affect—recognizing and enabling this requirement needs to be done explicitly—to reduce conflicts among stakeholders and avoid system failures.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-473552017-09-13T14:14:26Z Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Golf Tourism Woodside, Arch system dynamics golf sustainable tourism cause map This article examines the issues and criticisms concerning golf, tourism, and the environment and considers how golf—tourism—environment relationships might achieve economic well-being for a region while avoiding vicious cycles of destruction to local environments and the quality of life of local residents. The examination proposes the use of systems thinking, cause mapping, and system dynamics modeling and simulations of golf, tourism, and environmental relationships to help achieve workable solutions agreeable to all stakeholders. Sustainable relationships that include golf, tourism, and environmental objectives require crafting government policies via stakeholder participation of all parties that such relationships affect—recognizing and enabling this requirement needs to be done explicitly—to reduce conflicts among stakeholders and avoid system failures. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47355 10.1177/0047287509332335 SAGE Publications Inc restricted
spellingShingle system dynamics
golf
sustainable
tourism
cause map
Woodside, Arch
Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Golf Tourism
title Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Golf Tourism
title_full Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Golf Tourism
title_fullStr Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Golf Tourism
title_full_unstemmed Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Golf Tourism
title_short Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Golf Tourism
title_sort applying systems thinking to sustainable golf tourism
topic system dynamics
golf
sustainable
tourism
cause map
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47355