Placemaking and Tourism to Build Resilience: A Quest for Sustaining Peripheral Island Communities in Taiwan

Chin-Cheng Ni () and Dietermar Say
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Chin-Cheng Ni: Department of Environmental and Cultural Resources, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30063, Taiwan
Dietermar Say: Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30063, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-23

Abstract: Peripheral islands are prone to natural disasters. In the past, the literature on island community development focused on sustainability or vulnerability. However, resilience theory has gained attention as an alternate strategy due to unpredictable global evolution changes. Thus, this study explored how peripheral communities face disadvantageous global situations through adaption and cooperation within placemaking and tourism. We focused on two peripheral well-developed island communities, Nanliao and Xihu, in Penghu, Taiwan, and their approach to resilience. This study conducted a literature review, contextual analysis, field survey, and in-depth interview with a case study. The research results included the exploration of mixed placemaking, charity tourism, and the use of online interaction between the two communities. A resilient perspective, in which adaptive development (recovery), cooperative stability, and simultaneous transformation correspond to a third path, was explored. Our findings have challenged traditional dualism concepts, such as “top-down or bottom-up,” “global or local,” and “insiders or outsiders,” which seem to be increasingly meaningless in sustaining island communities.

Keywords: resilience; mixed placemaking; charity tourism; online interaction; peripheral island; Penghu; Taiwan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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