Debating Sustainability in Tourism Development: Resilience, Traditional Knowledge and Community: A Post-disaster Perspective

Katô, Kumi

doi:10.1080/21568316.2017.1312508

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“…Through the qualitative analysis of these papers, we can reveal that papers considering adoption are mostly either about adoption of different sustainable practices, policies or systems in agriculture [55][56][57], or they address questions of implementation of different sustainability and resilience policies and standards [58]. Studies on disaster resilience often concern a community level from different perspectives: for example, in engineering context [59], from a tourism development [60] or water supply contexts [61]. Despite certain peculiarities such as units of analyses, most of these studies agree that resilience and sustainability have a hierarchical relationship, where resilience is a part of sustainability: it is said that resilience is a "foundation" for sustainability [60], resilience is a "requirement" for urban system sustainability [62], or resilience is a necessary condition for sustainability [59].…”

Section: Resilience and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies on disaster resilience often concern a community level from different perspectives: for example, in engineering context [59], from a tourism development [60] or water supply contexts [61]. Despite certain peculiarities such as units of analyses, most of these studies agree that resilience and sustainability have a hierarchical relationship, where resilience is a part of sustainability: it is said that resilience is a "foundation" for sustainability [60], resilience is a "requirement" for urban system sustainability [62], or resilience is a necessary condition for sustainability [59]. However, going deeper, Marchese et al [36] identified three possible frameworks for sustainability and resilience: (1) resilience as a component of sustainability;…”

Section: Resilience and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Resilience Discourse Analysis: Towards a Multi-Level Approach to Cities

Rogov

Rozenblat

2018

Sustainability

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This study aims to understand the current state of research in urban resilience, its relations to urban sustainability and to integrate several distinct approaches into a multi-level perspective of cities comprising micro, meso and macro levels and their interactions. In fact, based on the meta-analysis of nearly 800 papers from Scopus from 1973 to 2018, we show that urban resilience discourses address micro and meso levels, considering shocks of bottom-up origin such as natural disasters. In contrast, the regional resilience approach addresses meso and macro levels (regional and global scales), considering shocks of top-down origin such as world economic crises. We find these approaches complementary and argue that in order to expand the urban resilience theory and overcome its limitations, they should be combined. For that purpose we propose a multi-level perspective that integrates both top-down and bottom-up dynamic processes. We argue that urban resilience is shaped by the synchronicity of adaptive cycles on three levels: micro, meso and macro. To build the multi-level approach of dynamics of adaptive cycles we use the panarchy framework.

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Section: Resilience and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resilience and Sustainabilitymentioning

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Urban Resilience Discourse Analysis: Towards a Multi-Level Approach to Cities

Rogov

Rozenblat

2018

Sustainability

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“…Blue Tourism is a case in point being one of the many community-led initiatives taking place in the Tohuku area in Japan (Lin, Kelemen, & Kiyomiya, 2017). Research by Goulding, Kelemen, and Kiyomiya (2018) on community-based responses to the 2011 disasters in Minamisanriku provides useful insights into the social and cultural dynamics of disaster resilience, while Kato (2018) argues that disaster resilience is closely related to how communities interact with the physical place over a long period of time and to the traditional ecological knowledge transmitted from generation to generation through personal stories, folklore, monuments and arts. Understanding how traditional place-based practices and community knowledge influence tourism development in post-disaster areas is crucial to building disaster resilience and sustainable tourism.…”

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“…Sometimes the tour can be large: for example, 100 students came at the same time but our fishing boat can only accommodate 10 people at a time, so we needed to cooperate with each other to find the best way to please the visitors; some groups departed for the sea tour while other groups learnt the marine knowledge at shore, then they swapped… (Interview 4,Fisherman) This project has regenerated connections with the traditional civic society of fisherman and reinforced traditional community ties and a sense of belonging to the place. Building on place-based practices of fishing and cooking and on traditional knowledge about the sea, the community enhanced its own resilience (Kato, 2018) while at the same time pursuing a bottom up form of sustainable tourism. All of this has helped the fishermen reduce their experience of the darkness of the site, giving hope for a full recovery of the town.…”

Section: Fishermen's On-site Experiencesmentioning

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Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan

Lin

Kelemen

Tresidder

2018

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Post-disaster tourism is often perceived as a form of Dark Tourism associated with death, loss and destruction. In Japan, the term Dark Tourism has gained prominence following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. This paper focuses on a community-led approach to post-disaster tourism development, initiated in the coastal area of Minamisanriku and labelled by the locals Blue Tourism. From its inception Blue Tourism incorporated non-dark activities which concentrated on the beauty of nature, social and environmental sustainability and the development of an enriched tourist experience. Its co-creational ethos helped transform some of the negative narratives of loss associated with Dark Tourism into positive accounts of communal renewal and hope. The paper highlights the limitations of Dark Tourism to post-disaster recovery and contributes new insights to the communitybased tourism literature. We argue that Blue Tourism is not a type of Dark Tourism but a form of resilience which builds around local place-based practices and traditional community knowledge. Consequently, it is capable of achieving sustainable disaster recovery and tourist satisfaction simultaneously.AQ4

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“…From 2012 onwards, these towns have developed projects to transmit tourists (domestic and international) what they had 'really' witnessed, and created activities for tourists interested also in volunteering while visiting. These towns were never touristic, but now they consider tourism as a viable form of resilience for the region, and are actively involved in inviting Japanese and foreigners to visit so that the disaster and all the death and pain are not forgotten (see also Amujo & Otubanjo, 2012;Kato, 2018;McMorran, 2008;Ritchie, 2009).…”

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Analysing affects and emotions in tourist e-mail interviews: a case in post-disaster Tohoku, Japan

Martini

Buda

2018

Current Issues in Tourism

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This paper contributes methodological discussions on collecting and analysing international tourists' affects and emotions. The method of data collection used is electronic mail interviews, in some instances corroborated by participant observation in the field, whereas the methods of data analysis employed are affective mapping and emotionality of texts. Such methods of analysis capture the on-flow and contingency of the tourist's experience in post-disaster places. E-mail interviews are becoming an increasingly widespread method of data collection. In post-disaster contexts, the potential of email interviews allows researchers to conduct fieldwork even when they cannot obtain face-to-face interviews, or in cases in which participants feel more at ease answering from their home and can take their time to respond. Twelve semi-structured e-mail interviews have been conducted in 2016 with international tourists who visited the Tohoku region, Japan, hit in 2011 by a triple disaster: an earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. To explore and better understand participants' affective and emotional experiences, we exemplify affective mapping and emotionality of texts drawing on tools like linguistic features of e-mails, imagework, short stories and anecdotes.

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Debating Sustainability in Tourism Development: Resilience, Traditional Knowledge and Community: A Post-disaster Perspective

Cited by 36 publications

References 37 publications

Urban Resilience Discourse Analysis: Towards a Multi-Level Approach to Cities

Urban Resilience Discourse Analysis: Towards a Multi-Level Approach to Cities

Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan

Analysing affects and emotions in tourist e-mail interviews: a case in post-disaster Tohoku, Japan

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