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This chapter analyses political arenas where environmental governance related to offshore oil and nature-based tourism takes place. It extends environmental governance research by focusing on connective arenas of governance, or arenas for engagement across environmental policy spheres and issues. The absence of connective arenas is a normal situation in environmental governance. This is explained with reference to horizontal and vertical processes of environmental governance. Across most of the North Atlantic study regions, oil governance involves a more concentrated network of governmental and national-international oil sector players and is oriented around regional and national political arenas. By contrast, tourism governance involves a more diffuse and localized network of government and tourism sector players and is oriented around local or regional political arenas.
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Stoddart, M.C.J., Mattoni, A., McLevey, J. (2020). Environmental Governance and the Oil-Tourism Interface. In: Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55944-1_4
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