Steaming Up or Staying Cool? Tourism Development and Greenlandic Futures in the Light of Climate Change

Bjørst, Lill Rastad; Ren, Carina

doi:10.3368/aa.52.1.91

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“…The studies are also classified according to the tourism type examined-again, studies on different tourism types were repeatedly pinned with respective icons. From a macroregional perspective, 73 of the 93 studies focus on the Arctic [19,[21][22][23][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][43][44][45][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][76][77]…”

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Geobibliography and Bibliometric Networks of Polar Tourism and Climate Change Research

Demiroglu

Hall

2020

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In late 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their much-awaited Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). High mountain areas, polar regions, low-lying islands and coastal areas, and ocean and marine ecosystems, were separately dealt by experts to reveal the impacts of climate change on these regions, as well as the responses of the natural and human systems inhabiting or related to these regions. The tourism sector was found, among the main systems, influenced by climate change in the oceanic and cryospheric environments. In this study, we deepen the understanding of tourism and climate interrelationships in the polar regions. In doing so, we step outside the climate resilience of polar tourism paradigm and systematically assess the literature in terms of its gaps relating to an extended framework where the impacts of tourism on climate through a combined and rebound effects lens are in question as well. Following a systematic identification and screening on two major bibliometric databases, a final selection of 93 studies, spanning the 2004–2019 period, are visualized in terms of their thematic and co-authorship networks and a study area based geobibliography, coupled with an emerging hot spots analysis, to help identify gaps for future research.

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Section: Geobibliographymentioning

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Geobibliography and Bibliometric Networks of Polar Tourism and Climate Change Research

Demiroglu

Hall

2020

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“…Images of the future of tourism policy Perhaps the most fundamental theme that emerges from our data is the lack of a unified vision for the future of Greenland. This echoes Bjørst and Ren's (2015) analysis of (a 'cold') Greenland as a global symbol for climate change vs. (a 'hot') Greenland on its way to industrialization. The official from the ministry of Industry, Labor, and Trade expressed the dimensions of this cleavage as such:…”

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“…As climate change fundamentally shifts the way peripheral areas (in the extreme north and elsewhere) understand themselves, it is fruitful to tease out how they assess and exploit their shifting circumstances. Two seemingly contrasting narratives comprise the vision of tourism development and the future of Greenland: a 'cold' Greenland, a global symbol for climate change, and a 'hot' Greenland, embracing the melting, on its way towards economic prosperity (Bjørst & Ren, 2015). Bjørst and Ren (2015) conclude that these are not mutually exclusive images; rather, they are intertwined, reflecting entangled and contested visions of sustainability and industrialization, climate changes, and the political and social contingencies of Greenland.…”

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Nascent island tourism policy development in Greenland: A network perspective

Petridou¹,

Olausson²,

İoannides³

2019

ISJ

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Following its achievement of Self-Rule status in 2009 Greenland embarked on a series of measures to diversify its economy with an eye towards eventually gaining full independence from Denmark. Tourism was underlined as a key sector for reaching this goal and, consequently, over the last few years there has been a concerted effort to develop the island as an important polar destination. Significantly, the Greenlandic government created the tourism development policy for 2016-2020, which it views as a key instrument for shaping the sector's future. In this paper, we adopted a policy network approach to determine the relational architecture among various stakeholders from the public and private sectors who are seen as relevant to tourism's development. Inter alia, we examined how these actors were linked to each other while examining what kind of tourism networks existed in Greenland and what obstacles might hinder or foster their formation. A thematic analysis of qualitative data on Atlas.ti reveals that though there exist networks in the Greenlandic tourism sector, they are not policy networks and that the Greenlandic government's approach to developing this tourism policy has been top-down, reflecting a 'government' rather than a 'governance' approach. Barriers to the formation of policy networks included lack of a shared image for the future; lack of trust among actors; lack of time and spatial fragmentation hindering iterative interactions, and lack of institutional enabling of information and knowledge sharing.

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“…And people see that potential and start new things towards exploiting it." While tourism numbers in Greenland remain relatively modest, recent reports and strategies point to the potential development of this industry as a positive contribution to a self-sustaining economy (Rambøll, 2014;Bjørst & Ren, 2015).…”

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Motivations for Indigenous island entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs and behavioral economics in Greenland

Wennecke¹,

Jacobsen²,

Ren³

2019

ISJ

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Greenland continues to undergo decolonization, the ultimate political ambition being a 'self-sustaining economy' and political independence from Denmark. Drawing on a recent survey in combination with ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the connection between political independence and entrepreneurial activities in Greenland. While entrepreneurs are increasingly expected to play a central role in fostering economic change, we are curious about what motivates them, and especially whether their motivations are related to the struggle for national independence. While entrepreneurship generally seems primarily motivated by a desire for personal autonomy, entrepreneurship in the context of an Indigenous island community seems driven by certain communal values, such as supporting the local community, cultural pride, family, and place. Our research supports the notion that entrepreneurship is motivated by non-pecuniary values, and we find entrepreneurship to result from a mesh of intertwined motivations. While we were unable to identify a direct link between the ambition for national autonomy and entrepreneurship, the paper contributes to the understanding of entrepreneurship as an instrument for decolonization drawing on a range of empirical cases and a multidisciplinary approach.

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Steaming Up or Staying Cool? Tourism Development and Greenlandic Futures in the Light of Climate Change

Cited by 30 publications

References 9 publications

Geobibliography and Bibliometric Networks of Polar Tourism and Climate Change Research

Geobibliography and Bibliometric Networks of Polar Tourism and Climate Change Research

Nascent island tourism policy development in Greenland: A network perspective

Motivations for Indigenous island entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs and behavioral economics in Greenland

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