Investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market

This is a conceptual paper that envision to ascertain marine resource position in addressing climate change impacts towards the tourism industry through environmental service market. It is imperative to mention that Asia comprising the largest proportion of global population illustrates lowest clima...

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Main Authors: Ramachandran, Sridar, Shuib, Ahmad, Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman, Siow, May Ling
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48388/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48388/1/Investigating%20the%20potential%20of%20marine%20tourism%20climate%20change%20adaptation-mitigation%20strategies%20through%20environmental%20service%20market.pdf
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author Ramachandran, Sridar
Shuib, Ahmad
Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman
Siow, May Ling
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Shuib, Ahmad
Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman
Siow, May Ling
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description This is a conceptual paper that envision to ascertain marine resource position in addressing climate change impacts towards the tourism industry through environmental service market. It is imperative to mention that Asia comprising the largest proportion of global population illustrates lowest climate change adaptation concern. The lack of urgency is evident in the Malaysian scenario as it took almost a decade to establish a national climate change policy (2010) from the date the initial expression of interest (2000) was documented. However, this positive turn of event in the national government policy coupled with the vulnerability of the marine tourism industry to climate change has been the motivation to embark upon the study. Climate change in marine tourism being at an infancy stage especially in Malaysia is a primary research gap found in this study. Furthermore the emphasis on mitigation as opposed to adaptation strategies in government policies has become a deterring factor for tourism stakeholders to participate in the cause of climate change. Past studies have focused at one side of the market, namely the visitors; ignoring compensation requirements resulting in overestimation of project and economic benefits. Hence, this paper proposes a payment for environmental service (PES) approach bridging the gaps between the demand and supply sides of the market in addressing the marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies. Consequently, this study envisage in charting a pathway for the marine tourism industry in combating tourism climate change vulnerability by striking a balance between the adaptation-mitigation strategies.
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spelling upm-483882016-09-14T05:40:18Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48388/ Investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market Ramachandran, Sridar Shuib, Ahmad Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman Siow, May Ling This is a conceptual paper that envision to ascertain marine resource position in addressing climate change impacts towards the tourism industry through environmental service market. It is imperative to mention that Asia comprising the largest proportion of global population illustrates lowest climate change adaptation concern. The lack of urgency is evident in the Malaysian scenario as it took almost a decade to establish a national climate change policy (2010) from the date the initial expression of interest (2000) was documented. However, this positive turn of event in the national government policy coupled with the vulnerability of the marine tourism industry to climate change has been the motivation to embark upon the study. Climate change in marine tourism being at an infancy stage especially in Malaysia is a primary research gap found in this study. Furthermore the emphasis on mitigation as opposed to adaptation strategies in government policies has become a deterring factor for tourism stakeholders to participate in the cause of climate change. Past studies have focused at one side of the market, namely the visitors; ignoring compensation requirements resulting in overestimation of project and economic benefits. Hence, this paper proposes a payment for environmental service (PES) approach bridging the gaps between the demand and supply sides of the market in addressing the marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies. Consequently, this study envisage in charting a pathway for the marine tourism industry in combating tourism climate change vulnerability by striking a balance between the adaptation-mitigation strategies. 2012 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48388/1/Investigating%20the%20potential%20of%20marine%20tourism%20climate%20change%20adaptation-mitigation%20strategies%20through%20environmental%20service%20market.pdf Ramachandran, Sridar and Shuib, Ahmad and Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman and Siow, May Ling (2012) Investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market. In: 5th International Colloquium on Tourism and Leisure (ICTL 2012), 9-12 July 2012, Bangkok, Thailand. .
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Shuib, Ahmad
Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman
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Investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market
title Investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market
title_full Investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market
title_fullStr Investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market
title_full_unstemmed Investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market
title_short Investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market
title_sort investigating the potential of marine tourism climate change adaptation-mitigation strategies through environmental service market
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48388/
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