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    Inheriting sustainability: World Heritage listing, the design of tourism development and the resilience of social-ecological complex adaptive systems in small oceanic islands: a comparative case study of Lord Howe Island (Australia) and Fernando de Noronha (Brazil)
    NOGUEIRA DE MORAES, LEONARDO ( 2014)
    Tourism development and sustainability are pressing issues to small oceanic islands featuring important and scarce natural heritage assets; these islands normally present small geographical areas with clearly defined boundaries, typically limited economic development alternatives combined with environmental systems and resources that are fragile and difficult to restore, once modified. Nevertheless, however paramount and highly interdependent the conservation of natural heritage and the obtaining of economic and social benefits through tourism might be, they do not seem to be subject of easy control; tourism development sustainability is dependent on the behaviour of many different agents, with not always complementary but rather, quite often, competing interests. From a Social-Ecological Complex Adaptive System – SECAS perspective, this research sought to understand how different forms of interpersonal and inter-organisational relationships of cooperation and competition influence the sustainability of Tourism Development - TD in small oceanic islands. Additionally, it sought to identify strategies that could influence these drivers and inhibitors within different social economic contexts, the influence of World Heritage Listing – WHL investigated as one possible global strategy for Localised Conservation – LC. Structured as a qualitative multiple case study, this research took place in two small oceanic island tourist destinations: Lord Howe Island – LHI in Australia and the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago – FDN in Brazil. With relatively similar geographical, tourist, regulatory and environmental characteristics, these sites presented the researcher with cases that have experienced the effects of WHL in different time spans and under different circumstances. They are also microcosms of the distinct social and economic contexts deriving from the different development models of the countries they are part. Aiming to contribute to the body of knowledge on the dynamics of sustainability transitions within tourism development in tourist destinations, this research: provided an overview on the evolution of the multiple concept of sustainability and proposed a working definition; carried a discussion on tourism development in the context of sustainability and developed an associated explanatory model and working definition; developed and applied a conceptual working model for researching the dynamics beneath the resilience of SECASs; bridged different areas of knowledge and applied Grounded Theory – GT methods to the research of SECASs; developed a transdisciplinary approach to research on Sustainability; concluded that Local Empowerment, Local Social Cohesion, Attachment to Place and Local Identity are fundamental to the resilience of Local SECASs and therefore to the sustainability of TD; and concluded that, when analysed from a SECAS approach, LC can both increase and decrease the resilience of global and local social-ecological systems.