caa a22 4500 388024887 CHVBK 20180307124935.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0032247400014947 doi S0032247400014947 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0032247400014947 Johnston Margaret E. Department of Geography, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada Evaluating the effectiveness of visitor-regulation strategies for polar tourism [Elektronische Daten] [Margaret E. Johnston] The regulation of tourism in polar areas is increasingly of concern to scientists, policy makers, tourists, and tourist operators who wish to control negative impacts and promote positive ones. Given the growing emphasis on finding and using appropriate ways to control visitors to the polar regions, it is important to examine issues related to the effectiveness of individual measures of regulation and the broader strategies that are in effect in these places. This paper examines the effectiveness of visitor-regulation strategies by outlining a two-step approach to evaluation. The initial step should involve determining the nature and attributes of the measures that make up the strategy. Commonalities, differences, constraints, and complementarity in these measures must be assessed. Particular attributes outlined in the paper, such as scale of jurisdiction and degree of restrictiveness, can be examined to assess the compatibility and consistency of the measures, which have implications for overall strategy effectiveness. While it may be appropriate to evaluate individual measures further using a goal-achievement approach, the paper recommends evaluating strategies through a conceptual approach based on criteria related to the characteristics of an effective strategy. Four are described in the paper: comprehensiveness, enforceability, outcomes, and appropriateness. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/188(1998-01), 25-30 0032-2474 34:188<25 1998 34 POL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400014947 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400014947 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Johnston Margaret E. Department of Geography, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/188(1998-01), 25-30 0032-2474 34:188<25 1998 34 POL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge