Sustainable tourism in Greek islands: The integration of activity-based environmental management with a destination environmental scorecard based on the adaptive resource management paradigm

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-38

  Karatzoglou, Benjamin ^a   Spilanis, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Activity based management; Adaptive resource management; Destination environmental scorecard; Stakeholder engagement; Sustainable tourism policy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ECOTOURISM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURIST DESTINATION;

GREECE;

EID: 74549181884     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.627     Document Type: Article

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