Adaption to climate change: a knowledge management approach

Abstract

Research in the area of tourism and climate change adaptation has grown considerably in recent years and increasing attention is being given to how the “tourist destination” can adapt. Given this, it is important to enhance our understanding of the knowledge needs of tourism destinations with regards to climate change and climate change adaptation. This paper reports on an exploratory empirical study, underpinned by a knowledge management stocks and flows approach that sought to examine a destination’s knowledge needs regarding climate change. An Australian context was chosen and it was found that despite a recent extreme climate event that had significantly impacted upon the tourism sector respondents had very low levels of concern about climate change.

Keywords:

• Climate change
• tourism destination
• knowledge management
• knowledge stocks
• knowledge flows