What is it about?
Proposes a model based on the speed of social/environmental change that a place is experiencing, and the size (scale) of tourism development that is being examined. The model then identifies the types of resilience and sustainability issues that arise under four different scenarios of speed and size. This can then be used to better understand the needs and actions necessary to make the outcomes of sustainable development and resilience planning more effective.
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Why is it important?
The proposed model is based on recent literature in resilience planning (urban planning theory), but has significant implications for sustainable development mostly because it is much more simple to understand and straightforward in its application than previous efforts to apply complex adaptive systems theory to sustainable tourism development. I recently received funding to test out this model in Taiwan, and am interested in collaborating with others to further develop and refine it.
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This page is a summary of: Scale, change and resilience in community tourism planning, Tourism Geographies, December 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2013.864325.
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Slow Resilience
This is an aspect of resilience planning that I find most interesting. It is the idea that there are Fast Factors and Slow Factors that impact how a places changes through time. Fast factors are sudden external or internal disruptions (i.e., disasters), which most resilience planning tends to focus on. Slow Factors are the opposite, such as social/cultural values and physical landscapes (natural and human built). This presentation was a keynote given at a conference in Hong Kong in April 2014
The Global EcoDistricts Protocol - executive summary
I recently found out about the EcoDistricts project, which applied sustainable design to community "districts" - which they feel is the ideal scale for implementing sustainability. The "protocol" is the first document to outline the ideas and methodology in this approach. I find that it is really centered on resilience planning (though that is not mentioned), which is placed in a sustainable development context. And so, I am thinking of applying this in my Taiwan research.
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