Includes bibliographical references and index.

Environmental change, resilience and tourism : definitions and frameworks / Alan A. Lew and Joseph Cheer -- Applying the adaptive capacity cycle to tourism development : an exploration of socio-social-ecological resilience / Esther Duke, Stuart Cottrell and Jana Raadik Cottrell -- The sustainable and resilient community : a new paradigm for community development / Alan A. Lew, Chin-cheng Ni, Tsung-chiung Wu and Pin T. Ng -- Searching for resilience : seal watching tourism as a resource for community development in Iceland / Georgette Leah Burns -- Tourism development and resilience in small oceanic islands in Australia and Brazil / Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes -- Ecotourism, climate change, and rural resilience in Trinidad and Tobago / Tisha Holmes -- Cultural ecosystem services, tourism, and community resilience in coastal wetland conservation in Taiwan / Alan A. Lew and Tsung-chiung Wu -- Managing for resilience in the face of climate change : the adaptive capacity of U.S. ski areas / Natalie Ooi -- (Re)production of resilient tourism space in the context of climate change in coastal Québec, Canada / Dominic Lapointe and Bruno Sarrasin -- A resilience approach to understanding collaborative coral reef conservation on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia / L. Arifin Bakti, Alan A. Lew and Yeon-Su Kim -- Disaster resilience of small businesses in Guanxian ancient town, Sichuan, China / Honggang Xu, Fangfang Chen and Shanshan Dai -- Death and disaster as moments of liminality : towards collective agency and community resilience in Solukhumbu, Nepal / Maggie C. Miller -- Tourism and the psychologically resilient city : Christchurch after the earthquake / Irina Herrschner and Phoebe Honey -- Restoring spiritual resilience in post-disaster recovery in Fukushima / Kumi Kato -- Fast and slow resilience in the New Zealand tourism industry / Orchiston, Caroline and Espiner, Stephen -- Within the changing system of arctic tourism, what should be made resilient to what, and for whom? / Kevin Hillmer-Pegram -- Conceptualizing destinations as a vanua : an examination of the evolution and resilience of a Fijian social and ecological system / Apisalome Movono -- Lessons learned : tourism and the anthropocene / Joseph M. Cheer & Alan A. Lew.