Scale, change and resilience in community tourism planning

Lew, A. A. (2013) Scale, change and resilience in community tourism planning. Tourism Geographies, 16 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN 1461-6688 (Submitted)

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Abstract

Resilience planning has emerged in recent years as an alternative to the sustainable development paradigm to provide new perspectives on community development and socio-ecological adjustments to a rapidly changing world. Tourism scholars have been somewhat slow to adopt the recent conceptual ideas related to community resilience that have been published in other disciplinary areas, though this situation is also changing rapidly. While most resilience research focuses on major disasters and crises, new frameworks that encompass slow change variables provide a more comprehensive view on resilience. A model for tourism resilience considers this rate of change (transitioning from slow to fast), and the scale of tourism interest (scaling from that of the entrepreneur to those that are community-wide). The resulting 2x2 matrix presents four context with distinct resilience issues, methodologies and measurements, ranging from entrepreneurs managing daily maintenance needs, to community disaster readiness, response and recovery.

Item Type:	Article
Publisher’s Statement:	This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Tourism Geographies on Dec 20, 2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14616688.2013.864325
ID number or DOI:	10.1080/14616688.2013.864325
Keywords:	Tourism planning, Resilience planning, Sustainable development, Community resilience, Complex adaptive systems, Sustainable tourism, Socio-ecological resilience
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit:	College of Social and Behavioral Science > Geography, Planning and Recreation
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2016 21:29
URI:	http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/2273

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