(Re)production of resilient tourism space in the context of climate change in coastal Quebec, Canada

Lapointe, Dominic; Sarrasin, Bruno

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“…planning discourses at play in and on those spaces. As in our previous research (Lapointe & Sarrasin, 2018;Lapointe et al, 2016), we stressed the importance of those discourses in the (re)production of tourism space and how it combined with climate change and risk discourses in the (re)production process. Buzinde et al (2010) stressed that tourists' social representations are important because they guide their preferences for destinations and activities, but as we see in our cases, the local community's social representations are also very important in defining how land will be used and how it will adapt to climate change.…”

Section: Ndp: Hold the Line For Public Landmentioning

confidence: 71%

“…It is particularly relevant to look at how the tourism spaces in question adapt to climate change, because the current development strategy of the St. Lawrence River does not take into account the impact climate change has, could, or will have on its coastal areas, local communities, and tourism infrastructure (Lapointe et al, ). In light of the results of our previous work, this can be analysed through evolving representations of local communities facing the transformation of locally valued tourism resources and the spatial strategies they apply in light of those transformations (Lapointe & Sarrasin, ). Furthermore, land tenure influences adaptation strategies and policies (Quan & Dyer, ), especially in the context of highly valued tourism land markets (Lapointe et al, ; Lapointe & Sarrasin, ).…”

Section: Changing Climate Changing Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, this work has emerged from our previous research projects. It is part of a collective approach, led by (Lapointe, Lebon & Guillemard, ; Lapointe & Sarrasin, ; Lapointe, Sarrasin & Guillemard, ; Lebon & Lapointe, ), who, since 2013, has been interested in the connections between tourism and climate change in the St. Lawrence River region and the unique and interdependent relationship the Quebecers have with the St. Lawrence River. Our background in regional studies has led us to focus on the realities of spaces in the peripheries.…”

Section: Changing Climate Changing Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In light of the results of our previous work, this can be analysed through evolving representations of local communities facing the transformation of locally valued tourism resources and the spatial strategies they apply in light of those transformations (Lapointe & Sarrasin, ). Furthermore, land tenure influences adaptation strategies and policies (Quan & Dyer, ), especially in the context of highly valued tourism land markets (Lapointe et al, ; Lapointe & Sarrasin, ). Therefore, through social representation and spatial practice observation, we will now analyse the (re)production of space through a private/public tenure differentiation.…”

Section: Changing Climate Changing Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The coastal tourism communities along the St. Lawrence River estuary are facing a situation where their physical space is transforming due to climate change‐induced erosion and submersion (Ouranos, ). This changes the physical space containing their social and economic activities (Lapointe & Sarrasin, ; Lapointe et al, ).…”

Section: Production Of Space and Risk As A Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Space in transformation: Public versus private climate change adaptation in peripheral coastal tourism areas—Case studies from Quebec, Canada

Lapointe

Lebon

Guillemard

2019

Journal of Tourism Research

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Climate change makes the tourism industry vulnerable, as many of its resources will be heavily impacted by its effects. Coastal destinations are likely to be the most affected by rising sea levels and extreme weather events, calling for a sociospatial analysis of the dynamics of peripheral coastal tourism communities. Using a production of space framework, we describe how tourism space is produced and (re)produced in two Canadian communities located along the St. Lawrence River estuary: Tadoussac and Notre‐Dame‐du‐Portage. A case study methodology including observation, semistructured interviews, and discourses analysis is applied to deconstruct the sociospatial process of climate change adaptation. The main findings stress the importance of discourse and land tenure strategies used by different stakeholders. Managers of publicly owned land tend to make environmental strategies (green infrastructure) central to their adaptation strategies, whereas private land owners tend to use man‐made interventions (grey infrastructure) and closing space strategies to protect and enhance their land values in response to the increasing threat and evidence of climate change impacts. The results call for further research that takes the social processes of value creation embedded in land tenure and land markets into account.

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Section: Ndp: Hold the Line For Public Landmentioning

confidence: 71%

Section: Changing Climate Changing Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Changing Climate Changing Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Changing Climate Changing Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Production Of Space and Risk As A Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Space in transformation: Public versus private climate change adaptation in peripheral coastal tourism areas—Case studies from Quebec, Canada

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Lebon

Guillemard

2019

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Tourism and community resilience in the Anthropocene: accentuating temporal overtourism

Cheer

Milano

Novelli

2019

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Global tourism growth is unprecedented. Consequently, this has elevated the sector as a key plank for economic development, and its utility is deeply embedded in political, economic and social-ecological discourse. Where the expansion of the sector leverages natural and cultural landscapes, this applies pressure to social and ecological underpinnings that if not reconciled, can become problematic. The way this plays out in Australia's Shipwreck Coast and the wider Great Ocean Road region, especially the implications for community resilience, is the focus. Emphasis is placed on the vulnerability of peripheral coastal areas to development that withdraws from destination endowments, yet fails to provide commensurate economic yield as a suitable trade-off. This is obvious where tourism intensification has led to concerns about the breach of normative carrying capacities. Temporal overtourism driven by seasonal overcrowding is countenanced as emblematic of tourism in the Anthropocene where focus tends to be largely growth-oriented, with much less attention given to bolstering social-ecological resilience, especially community resilience. At stake is the resilience of regional areas and their communities, who in the absence of garnering commensurate economic returns from tourism expansion find themselves in social and ecological deficit.

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Tourism and terrorism The determinants of destination resilience and the implications for destination image

Benjamin

Lapointe

Sarrasin

2019

Reputation and Image Recovery for the Tourism Industry

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Safety is essential in order for a destination to maintain and increase tourism activities (Gupta et al., 2010; Hall et al., 2004). In comparison, terrorist attacks are more likely to have negative effects on tourism than natural disasters (Sönmez et al., 1999). During the last decades, several terrorist acts have been committed in touristic cities of the North and South (including Boston, Istanbul, Manchester, New Delhi, New York, Paris, and Tunis). Security concerns and the threat of violence perpetrated by certain groups with radical political and religious demands do not only affect a destination’s image and reputation and individual decisions about whether to visit a given destination. They also influence the political and economic balance, which in turn affects the environment in which the tourism industry operates (Hall et al., 2004). While some destinations appear to be suffering the long-term consequences of terrorist attacks on their tourism industry (Liu and Pratt, 2017), others are successfully keeping their industry afloat and avoiding significant economic downturns (Gurtner, 2007; Putra and Hitchcock, 2006). We are therefore seeking to understand the reasons why some destinations manage to maintain their image and remain attractive to tourists despite terrorist acts and others struggle to overcome the consequences of such acts on their industry, even years after the fact.

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(Re)production of resilient tourism space in the context of climate change in coastal Quebec, Canada

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Space in transformation: Public versus private climate change adaptation in peripheral coastal tourism areas—Case studies from Quebec, Canada

Space in transformation: Public versus private climate change adaptation in peripheral coastal tourism areas—Case studies from Quebec, Canada

Tourism and community resilience in the Anthropocene: accentuating temporal overtourism

Tourism and terrorism The determinants of destination resilience and the implications for destination image

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