Beach tourism accommodation, typical of Vanuatu. This example is from Espiritu Santo.
This paper explores the knowledge around climate change across academic, practice and political domains to identify gaps in understanding and opportunities for improved action to address climate risks.
Effective climate change action relies on the production of relevant knowledge. This review provides an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to critically assess tourism and climate change knowledge production across three knowledge domains: academic, practical and political.
Building on existing tourism knowledge frameworks and applying systems thinking, the Tourism Climate Change Knowledge System is developed consisting of five knowledge dimensions:
- Source of knowledge
- Knowledge creation
- Influence on knowledge
- Knowledge content
- Knowledge impact.
Results reveal how knowledge differs across domains and what barriers impede effective knowledge generation.
While some links could be identified, there remains a disconnect between academic knowledge outputs and practical and political knowledge needs. The holistic lens enables the formulation of recommendations to enhance the production and use of knowledge.
Fig. Geographical region and features addressed per knowledge domain, whereby one document may focus on one or more regions and features. Select to view larger image.
Publication
Johanna Loehr and Susanne Becken (2021) The Tourism Climate Change Knowledge System. Annals of Tourism Research 86: 103073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.103073
About the authors:
Dr. Johanna Loehr
Research Fellow, Griffith Institute for Tourism.
Prof. Susanne Becken
Lead – Social Policy & Analysis. Expertise in carbon footprint; climate change vulnerability and adaptation destination management.
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