Abstract
Luthe, T., and R. Wyss. 2016. Resilience to climate change in a cross-scale tourism governance context: a combined quantitative-qualitative network analysis. Ecology and Society 21(1):27.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08234-210127
Highlights
Alpine municipalities with tourism-dependent economies are exposed to a number of both short- and long-term disturbances, change processes, and challenges driven by climate change
Cross-scale governance integration Regarding the integration of the three municipalities in the planned regional destination management organization (DMO), we found a lack of collaboration between actors from Andermatt and Disentis
In this paper we contribute to the resilience discussion with (1) the interpretation of network metrics for resilience based on a comparative network analysis of tourism SES on different governance scales, by (2) integrating and empirically validating such network metrics with qualitative data, to (3) provide policy implications for tourism management
Summary
Alpine municipalities with tourism-dependent economies are exposed to a number of both short- and long-term disturbances, change processes, and challenges driven by climate change. Sudden, fast changes, for example, the observed change in the frequency and intensity of daily temperature extremes, and second, slow, gradual changes, such as long-term trends of increasing mean temperatures (Stocker et al 2013) Both types of change require either quick adaptation responses, or long-term strategies of mitigation and innovation. Sudden changes mostly relate to clearly identifiable adaptation tasks, whereas slow, gradual climate change mostly relates to more complex, not clearly identifiable actions of mitigation and innovation (Folke 2006) Both types of responses can either be coordinated by a governing body, for example, the local political council, a tourism destination management organization (DMO; e.g., Beritelli et al 2007), or be implemented by individual actors or ad hoc groups of actors (see, e.g., Nordin and Svensson 2007). Climate change responses are to be understood as processes taking place at different scales of governance (see Ingold et al 2010)
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