Framing the issue, scaling the action : a tale of two tourism living lab on climate change

Keywords: Living Lab, climate change adaptation, Social innovation, tourism
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Monday
Session Start / End Time: 2/28/2022 05:20 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/28/2022 06:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 4

Abstract

The tourism industry is vulnerable to climate change, as many of its resources will be heavily affected by it . Coastal destinations and winter sports resorts are likely to be the most affected by climate change, calling for innovative adaptation initiative. However, Adaptation is a complex issue, full of wicked problems and builds through representations of space, place, environment, climate and tourism. The issue of innovation in adaptation to climate change has mainly focused on the administrative and technological aspects , leaving aside the issue of adaptation as a social innovation justifying to work within a living lab process to foster social innovation for adaptation.
Living Lab focuses on territorial or thematic issues , technological innovation, but also, and increasingly, social innovation . The dimensions of dialogue, co-creation and participation inherent to the territory and to social innovation are consistent with the opening of the innovation process at the heart of the LL approach, an approach considered by many to be part of the new processes of socio-territorial innovation .
The two cases studied involve tourist areas in Quebec: the coastal region of Rivière-du-Loup, in eastern Quebec in Canada, and the Laurentians region north of Montreal, in western Quebec. The presentation will analyze through issue framing, how the climate change issue is understood and conceptualized by the participant of the living lab, and action scaling, at which scale the action are aimed to, how the co-creation processes of the living labs were conceptualized and put in action.