Resilient Destinations and Tourism (eBook, PDF)

Governance Strategies in the Transition towards Sustainability in Tourism
Redaktion: Saarinen, Jarkko; Gill, Alison M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sustainability is one of the most important issues currently facing the tourism sector. Recently the role of resilience thinking has been highlighted in sustainable development discussions as an alternative perspective. This book approaches these concepts as interwoven processes and looks at change through a socio-ecological lens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351667364
• Artikelnr.: 56837359

Autorenporträt

Jarkko Saarinen is a Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor (Sustainability Management) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Alison M. Gill is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Geography and School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Introduction 1. Resilient Destinations: Need for Governance
Strategies in the Transition towards Sustainability Section II: Frameworks
and Conceptualizations 2. Resilience theory and tourism 3. Governance and
resilience: Evolving logics 4. Conceptualizing Vulnerability and Adaptive
Capacity of Tourism from an Indigenous Pacific Islands Perspective 5.
Coevolution and resilient regions: Moving towards sustainable tourism
development 6. The Mobilities Paradigm and Resilience in Sustainable
Tourism Section III: Applications and Cases 7. Resilience and Climate
Change 8. Natural Disaster, Vulnerability and Resilience: Lessons Learned
from Kathmandu, Nepal 9. Building resilient and sustainable tourism
destinations: Evidence from two Swiss mountain communities 10. Hosting the
Nation: Rural Revitalization and Resilience through Ecotourism in Okinawa,
Japan 11. Dynamics in tourism-landscape interactions in the public
discourse: the case of Terschelling in the Wadden sea area 12. Refugee
Flows and Tourist Mobility: Challenges to Destination Resilience Section
IV: Conclusions: 13. Conclusions: A Way Ahead?