Searching for Resilience: Seal-watching tourism as a resource for community development in Iceland

• Main Author: Burns, Georgette
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2018
• Subjects: Wildlife and Habitat Management; Tourism not elsewhere classified; Griffith; Húnaþing Vestra; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/372895; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315463971

This chapter presents a case study of wildlife tourism from northwest Iceland. Exploring the history of interactions between human and seal residents of Húnaþing vestra demonstrates change, adaptation and resilience over time. The addition of wildlife tourism has added a third actor, the tourist, an...