ABSTRACT
Research on climate change and tourism is recent in Brazil. Although Rio-92 stimulated sustainable-development-related investigation (Sachs, Wilheim, and Sérgio 2001), it is only recently that the impact of these changes has been studied consistently. Brazil has been structuring its research on climate change through two networks: Climate Net, launched in 2008, with ten thematic sub-nets uniting more than forty universities and research institutes throughout the country, and INCT for Climate Change, launched in 2009, involving over ninety research groups from sixty-five different Brazilian and international institutions, with more than 400 participants and twenty-six ongoing projects (INCT 2010: 5). These are the biggest research nets on climate change in Brazil; nevertheless, they have not undertaken specific research on climate change and tourism development. There are few national studies on this topic (Borda and Brasileiro 2010).
