‘The regenetation of the coast. Resilient landscapes and climate change’

Published under the Ecoáreas-mardetodos program, promoted and funded by the Ministry of Tourism, Industry, and Commerce, with co-financing from the European Union's FEDER funds, Tourism. Landscape. Future. Towards a tourist transition in the Canary Islands is a contribution to addressing the complex equation between climate change and the goal of achieving a zero-emission destination by 2050.

It presents the proposals of more than 50 experts on what type of tourism this time would require, “our time, the era in which the Canarians must face the unavoidable contradiction of, on one hand, continuing to maintain the successful model that supports the islands' economy and, on the other, thinking of new, more varied tourism proposals that are, therefore, less fragile, as well as more respectful of the extraordinary but vulnerable Canarian landscape,” explains Rivas.

In its 350 pages, the book analyzes tourism activity and its sustainability for the future, as well as the ecological impacts that mass tourism of the 20th century has represented, acknowledging the true urgency and speed of the environmental effects that climate change will generate, no longer in the long term but in the short and immediate term.

This general horizon is explained in this book through five major thematic sections in which various authors, specialists in each of their fields, offer, with a multiplicity of viewpoints and from different disciplines, some answers to the questions posed by the current context of tourism.