Beyond Recovery
Day 1: Risk, resilience and development choices
Establish the evidence and the development questions: how can Nepal's tourism destinations recover without reproducing the conditions that made them vulnerable?
Opening keynote by Professor C. Michael Hall, "Tourism and a Changing Climate: Finding a Safe Operating Space for Tourism". The presentation will initially provide a short overview of how humans are pushing planetary boundaries to the extent that we are close to exceeding or potentially have exceeded several key tipping points in Earth's biophysical and socio-economic system. Tourism is inextricably bound up in this process as both a key contributor to environmental change and also being affected by it. Although global, we experience such things locally, sometimes with tremendous consequences. The challenge for the recovery of both Earth and tourism systems is how do we find a safe operating space for tourism?
More speakers will be announced soon.
| Welcome and recap | |
| Opening keynote: Prof. C. Michael Hall Tourism and a Changing Climate: Finding a Safe Operating Space for Tourism | |
| Keynote address: Prof. Harold Goodwin Increasing Local Economic Benefit and Reducing Dependency | |
| Moderated discussion | |
| Break | |
| Keynote address: Dr Carl Cater | |
| Moderated dialogue | |
| Takeaways and next-day preview |
Questions and discussion with Professor C. Michael Hall and Professor Harold Goodwin.
Which development choices would make the greatest difference to tourism-dependent communities before the next flood?
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