Understanding a northern community's adaptation to climate change and tourism development

• Main Author: Mattina, Charlie
• Other Authors: Lemelin, Harvey, Johnston, Margaret, Dawson, Jackie
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Labrador; Indigenous tourism; Climate change; Adaptation; Tourism development; Arctic tourism; Arctic; Newfoundland; Nain; Wandel
• Online Access: http://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/551

This thesis focuses on community perspectives of tourism development and climate change in the community of Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador. It employed a conceptual model of vulnerability developed by Ford, Smit and Wandel (2006) as a macro-framework to assess the community’s ability to adapt over...