@article {Ruzza:2000:1351-1610:291,
title = "Environmental Sustainability and Tourism in European Policy-making",
journal = "Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/ciej",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2000",
volume = "13",
number = "3",
publication date ="2000-09-01T00:00:00",
pages = "291-310",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1351-1610",
eissn = "1469-8412",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ciej/2000/00000013/00000003/art00005",
doi = "doi:10.1080/713670518",
author = "Ruzza, Carlo",
abstract = "The paper analyses decision-making in the field of European environmental regulation and examines the implications for tourist policy. It is argued that European Union (EU) environmental policy is influenced by three factors: (1) the EU bureaucracy is interested in expanding its influence and power vis-{\‘a}-vis national bureaucracies and polities; (2) Northern European countries have selectively recruited regulators with environmentally sympathetic ideologies; and (3) a pro-environmental attitude contributes to the societal legitimation of business. These considerations give a unique character to environmental policy-making, which over time has tended to spill over to thematically connected areas, including to tourism policy.",
}