ABSTRACT
In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people and places in complex social and environmental systems. Despite this, tourism scholars have been slow to adopt resilience concepts, at a time when the emergence of new frameworks and applications is pressing.
Drawing on original empirical and theoretical insights in resilience thinking, this book explores how tourism communities and economies respond to environmental changes, both fast (natural hazard disasters) and slow (incremental shifts). It explores how tourism places adapt, change, and sometimes transform (or not) in relation to their environmental context, with an awareness of intersection with societal dynamics and links to political, economic and social drivers of change. Contributions draw on empirical research conducted in a range of international settings, including indigenous communities, to explore the complexity and gradations of environmental change encounters and resilience planning responses in a range of tourism contexts.
As the first book to specifically focus on environmental change from a resilience perspective, this timely and original work makes a critical contribution to tourism studies, tourism management and environmental geography, as well as environmental sciences and development studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|17 pages
Applying the adaptive capacity cycle to tourism development
part II|134 pages
Nature-based tourism and climate change
chapter 4|17 pages
Searching for resilience
chapter 8|14 pages
Managing for resilience in the face of climate change
part III|84 pages
Disaster events and tourism
chapter 12|14 pages
Death and disaster as moments of liminality
part IV|36 pages
Indigenous responses to changing environments
chapter 17|17 pages
Conceptualizing destinations as a vanua
part V|10 pages
Conclusions