Tourism and Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation in the path of Transformation

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Abstract

The present and future climate change will lead to impacts on tourism, which will change the human thermal comfort and tourist seasonality, decrease landscape aesthetic quality to be expressed by continuous reductions of beach area, changes in vegetation and animal biogeographical distribution and loss of biodiversity, among other.
Being Adaptation the intent of adjustment to the impacts of climate change in order to minimize damage and find opportunities, and Mitigation any intervention that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the dilemma arises, in a consequences, or mitigating, offensively, the causes of climate change in tourism sector.
As such, it's paramount to discuss the duality between the challenges of adaptation and mitigation of climate change in tourism science, not in a contingent way, but, above all, by the need for transformative transition of tourist industry towards sustainable exploitation of landscape as means of increasing the resilience of tourist regions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Congress on Interdisciplinary in Social and Human Sciences
EditorsSaúl Neves de Jesus, Patrícia Pinto
Place of PublicationFaro
PublisherResearch Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, Universidade do Algarve
Pages455-458
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)978-989-8472-82-3
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventInternational Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences - University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Duration: 5 May 20166 May 2016
Conference number: I
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Conference

ConferenceInternational Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityFaro
Period5/05/166/05/16
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Keywords

  • Tourism
  • Climate Change
  • Adaptation
  • Migritation

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