TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Conceptualizations of sustainability and the Anthropocene are expressed in static terms, with the Earth’s biosphere viewed as imposing immutable limits. Yet, increased access to outer space, with tourism as an important facilitator, challenges past limitations. This chapter examines the implications of advances in space tourism for the concepts of sustainability and the Anthropocene. The former is complicated by access to outer space, which may bring about a raft of calamities but also potentially immense resources and even the possibility of ensuring our species’ long-term survival by settling the cosmos. This chapter also analyzes problems incurred by the Anthropocene’s emphasis on terrestrial geology in an era of increasing ability to leave the Earth.
VL  - 25
SN  - 978-1-78973-495-9, 978-1-78973-496-6/1571-5043
DO  - 10.1108/S1571-504320190000025021
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320190000025021
AU  - Spector Sam
AU  - Higham James E. S.
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Space Tourism, the Anthropocene, and Sustainability
T2  - Space Tourism
T3  - Tourism Social Science Series
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 245
EP  - 262
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -