Understanding perceptions of nature-based tourism stakeholders' adaptive capacity to climate change in Maine

From official abstract: "The purpose of this research is to gain an in-depth understanding of the diverse perceptions of nature-based tourism stakeholders’ on impacts, mitigation and adaptive efforts to climate change in Maine. The nature based tourism industry in the state is highly seasonal, making the industry especially sensitive to weather and climatic variations. Climate change scenarios for Maine currently suggest increases in average annual temperature and precipitation and a reduction in annual snowfall. This paper describes some preliminary results from an ongoing comparative case study seeking to understand stakeholders’ perceptions of climate change and tourism at two major tourism regions in Maine. Data is being collected using semi-structured interviews with a diversity of tourism stakeholder organizations within each of the regions to better understand their perceptions of destination resilience, efforts toward reducing emissions, and their adaptive capacity to confront climate change."