- Title
- Exploring the potential impacts of tourism development on social and ecological change in the Solomon Islands
- Creator
- Diedrich, Amy
- Creator
- Aswani, Shankar
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67335
- Identifier
- vital:29074
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0781-x
- Description
- publisher version
- Description
- Pacific Island communities may be vulnerable to negative impacts of economic development, which is often considered a strategy for reducing vulnerability to environmental change. Studies that evaluate potential impacts of economic development in isolated communities may be inaccurate to only focus on asking people to anticipate impacts of phenomena they have had minimal exposure to. We used an open-ended approach to evaluate how communities in the Solomon Islands perceived change, and used this information to anticipate potential impacts of the government’s plans to develop tourism. Our results showed mostly negative expectations of change, particularly socio-cultural, which was perceived as being driven by diminishing social capital, foreign influence, and economic development. Despite minimal exposure, locals supported tourism and had more positive expectations of change associated with this activity. Our findings emphasize the need for locally appropriate planning to ensure intended positive impacts of tourism and other forms of economic development.
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ambio
- Relation
- Diedrich, A. & Aswani, S. (2016) Exploring the potential impacts of tourism development on social and ecological change in the Solomon Islands. Ambio, 45: 808. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0781-x
- Relation
- Ambio volume 45 number 7 808 818 November 2016 1654-7209
- Rights
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciencest
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the National Library of South Africa Copyright Act (http://www.nlsa.ac.za/downloads/Copyright Act.pdf)
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