Understanding Resilience in a Vulnerable Industry: the Case of Reef Tourism in Australia

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

Biggs, Duan¹ 

关键词: coral reefs;    disturbance;    global change;    resilience;    shock;    tourism;    vulnerability;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-03948-160130

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

Understanding the resilience of vulnerable sectors of social-ecological systems is critical in an era of escalating global change. The coral reef tourism sector is highly vulnerable not only to ecological effects of climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances on reefs, but also to shocks such as economic recession and energy price escalation.Commercial tourism enterprises are key players in reef tourism in Australia and elsewhere. However, the factors that confer resilience to reef-based tourism enterprises, or the reef tourism sector more broadly, in the face of large disturbances have not been investigated to date. This paper empirically examines the perceived resilience of reef tourism enterprises on Australia

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