Carbon villains? Climate change responses among accommodation providers in historic premises
Carbon villains? Climate change responses among accommodation providers in historic premises
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DOI：
10.1080/1743873x.2015.1082569
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Warren, Neil
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作者：
Coles, Tim;Dinan, Claire;Warren, Neil
建筑存量是造成全球变暖的主要人为排放源。老建筑通常被描述为比新建筑在环境方面表现更差。对于像旅游业这样严重依赖历史建筑的行业来说，这引发了人们对其为未来减排做出贡献的能力的质疑。本文探讨了英格兰西南部小型住宿企业历史建筑的年龄和环境绩效之间的关系，首先通过相关性分析，然后进行了三个广泛的案例研究。它认为，未能将遗产建筑与气候变化旅游学术结合是一个主要的空白。从经验上看，环境绩效与原始房屋首次建造的日期之间没有统计学上显著的关系。远不是碳恶棍，一些老房子的住宿供应商在环境基准计划方面表现得非常好。根据文物住宿提供者的环境表现，我们确定了三种类型的住宿提供者。本文的结论是，遗产建筑存量本身并不妨碍应对气候变化的行动。对这些物业的旅游企业的指导应使他们意识到这一点，并提供量身定制的建议，帮助他们意识到潜在的机会。
Building stock is a major anthropogenic source of emissions contributing to global warming. Older buildings are conventionally portrayed as performing worse environmentally than more recent buildings. For a sector like tourism, which relies heavily on historic building stock, this raises questions about its ability to contribute to emission reductions moving forward. This paper explores the relationship between the age and environmental performance of historic premises for small accommodation businesses in South West England, first by correlation analysis and then three extensive case studies. It argues that the failure to integrate heritage buildings in tourism scholarship on climate change is a major lacuna. Empirically, no statistically significant relationship is found between environmental performance and the date when the original premises were first built. Far from being carbon villains, several accommodation providers in older premises perform very well against environmental benchmarking schemes. Three types of heritage accommodation providers are identified on the basis of their perceived and actual levels of environmental performance. This paper concludes that heritage building stock of itself is no impediment to action on climate change. Guidance to tourism businesses in such properties should make them aware of this, and provide tailored advice to help them realise potential opportunities.