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Michelle Rogat Draft Background Section - Merits, Background


 * NEED TO SUMMARIZE AND BE SUCCINCTLY BRIEF ON THE INFORMATION**

Explain that the grounds for the structure of my research as an analogy of an ecological system, the different nodes being the different businesses and professionals surrounding hospitality businesses that influence its potential for becoming sustainable. The sustainability movement hasn't been making great headway and that the issues and resistance to sustainability need to be addressed and analyzed so that sustainability movement can make faster progress in the future. This research proposal focuses on the hospitality industry specifically because it is considered "low hanging fruit" because of its luxurious and wasteful image, and because I have access to carry out research at a country club, which is within the hospitality industry, but is very much a business none-the-less.
 * Environmental sustainability movement
 * as a whole how it hasn't been making as fast a progress as most people would like, go into analysis paralysis and how there is this need for and coming shift in the focus of sustainability - from the answers to being sustainable to how do we make sure those answers are accepted and successfully taken up by society and that everyone is on board
 * The hospitality industry
 * their wasteful image, what the waste and environmental impact really is, how much of the economy does it make up - they are the low hanging fruit in the environmental sustainability movement
 * The elite of society
 * they are the ones that buy into the hospitality industry and live in that "life of luxury", the importance of working alongside the elite, their influence on society
 * there was a thesis done on this topic by J. Sherwood that I can use and this research will be giving an example of how it is important and can be significantly rewarding to the environmental sustainability movement to try to include the elite
 * Golf courses
 * their size and number in the US and in the world, the environmental impact of non-certified courses on the environment, impact of certified green golf courses on the environment
 * there is already information and research done by the USGA and by the Audubon that can be used and hopefully can be added to
 * Restaurants
 * the environmental impact of them, include information on food waste in general in the US and it's impact on the environment, include how wide spread of an issue this is, maybe mention food security?
 * hotels...? need to research more