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外文翻译 原文 Crises, sustainable tourism and achieving critical understanding Material Source:：Journal of Sustainable Tourism Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2011, 1–3Author: Bramwell, Bill1 Abstract:An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses sustainable tourism, critical understanding, and climate change. Our editorial in January 2009 addressed the then impending international financial crisis (Bramwell Lane, 2009). We feared that lack of finance might reduce the willingness of business and governments to pay for investment in the infrastructure, facilities and training needed to support more sustainable products and for environmental and social enhancements. Our editorial in January 2010 examined the possibility that the financial and economic crisis might increase the likelihood of greater government intervention in the free market, which might help to promote the objectives of sustainable tourism (Bramwell Lane, 2010). But, alternatively, we also noted that the financial crisis might encourage a growing neo-liberalism that seeks salvation through more price competition and reduced public sector activity. That clearly could be inimical to furthering the aims of sustainable tourism. We now face at least two kinds of crisis that affect the prospects ofmoving towards more sustainable tourism. First, there is a global environmental crisis, in response to which many people focus only on the threats from climate change. As these words are being written, however, the relatively hidden issues surrounding biodiversity conservation are also being highlighted. The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity, with one focal point of the year being the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP) on the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Nagoya, Japan. This COP marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention. The Conference sought to adopt a new strategic plan for the Convention, including new biodiversity targets to stem speci