Second Homes and Climate Change

This book is the first to address the important interrelationship between second homes and climate change, which has become an increasingly relevant issue for many regions around the world.

Second homes are often a key source of tourist visitation as well as economic benefit for their host communities. The chapters provide an array of international case studies and climate change impacts, including the changing biocultural landscapes in Italy, hazard risks in the mountains of Poland, and the shifting media discussion on second homes and climate change in Finland. Topics covered focus on issues around planning and governance in second home locations, adaptation and mitigation measures implemented by second home owners, and the influence of second home owners’ place attachment in relation to second home impacts. It introduces the overall topic of second homes and climate change while also laying the groundwork for future work in this burgeoning area of research.

This book will be of significant interest to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and academics in the fields of geography, tourism, planning, housing studies, regional development, environmental management, and disaster management. It would also be of use for professionals who engage with second home communities, particularly planners, government officials, and environmental officers.

Bailey Ashton Adie is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan, and the Chair of the Leisure Studies Association. She has a PhD in Management and Development of Cultural Heritage from IMT Lucca, Italy. Her research interests include community resilience, second homes, community-based tourism, World Heritage tourism, tourism and development, and heritage tourism. She is the author of the Routledge book, World Heritage and Tourism: Marketing and Management. She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Heritage Tourism, Tourism Geographies, Tourism Management Perspectives, and El Periplo Sustentable. Her work has been published in book chapters as well as in leading journals, including Annals of Tourism Research, Current Issues in Tourism, and Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

C. Michael Hall is Ahurei Professor in the Department of Management, Marketing and Tourism, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Visiting Professor and Docent in Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; Visiting Professor, School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Kalmar; Guest Professor, Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden; Visiting Professor, CRiC, Taylors University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Eminent Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. Co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism and Field Editor of Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism he publishes widely on tourism, sustainability, global environmental change, food, and regional development.