Resilient destinations and tourism : governances strategies in the transition towards sustainability in tourism

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Saarinen, Jarkko (Editor), Gill, Alison M. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Series:Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: placing resilience in the sustainability frame
  • 2. Tourism, resilience, and governance strategies in the transition towards sustainability
  • 3. Resilience theory and tourism
  • 4. Governance, tourism, and resilience: a long way togo?
  • 5. Co-evolution and resilient regions: moving towards sustainable tourism development
  • 6. The mobilities paradigm, resilience and sustainable tourism
  • 7. Conceptualizing vulnerability and adaptive capacity of tourism from an indigenous Pacific Islands perspective
  • 8. Post-disaster recovery, tourism, and heritage conservation: insights from the impacts of Nepal's 2015 earthquake in Kathmandu Valley
  • 9. Working towards resilience: collective agency in a tourism destination in the Swiss Alps
  • 10. Resort retail resilience: the contested spaces of retailing in Whistler, Canada
  • 11. Examining social-ecological resilience: using content analysis to assess changes in public perceptions of the synergetic interactions between tourism development and landscape protection
  • 12. Revitalizing the nation: building resilience through ecotourism in Okinawa, Japan
  • 13. Conclusions: challenges and opportunities in the transition towards sustainability