1st Edition
Resilient Destinations and Tourism Governance Strategies in the Transition towards Sustainability in Tourism
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?
Biography
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.
