Understanding Resilience in a Vulnerable Industry: the Case of Reef Tourism in Australia

Understanding the resilience of vulnerable sectors of social-ecological systems is critical in an era of escalating global change. The coral reef tourism sector is highly vulnerable not only to ecological effects of climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances on reefs, but also to shocks suc...

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Main Author: Duan Biggs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2011-03-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art30/