Building resilience to climate change – the role of cooperation in alpine tourism networks

Local Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 908-922

  Wyss, Romano ^a,b   Luthe, Tobias ^a   Abegg, Bruno ^c,d  

^a University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur   (Switzerland)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d AlpS Centre for Climate Change Adaptation   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alps; climate change adaptation; cooperation; resilience; tourism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; PUBLIC SECTOR; TOURISM; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84942981255     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2013.879289     Document Type: Article

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