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Preferred Submission Format
  1. Title
  2. Full names of all authors (no abbreviations)
  3. Affiliations of all authors
  4. Contact email of at least one author
  5. Keywords
  6. Body text  - use single or 1.5 line spacing; please left justify and include a blank line between each paragraph to make your paper easier to read
  7. References in any standard academic format - include a blank line between each reference to make it easier to read
  8. Please do not include copyrighted material (such as maps and figures) unless you have written permission from the copyright holder to use them
CASE STUDY FORMAT

The format of the actual case study (body text) is open to the author's discretion.  However, the suggested format is:
  1. General Background and Context
  2. Specific Change Issues the Require a Resilience Response
  3. Key Indicators or Aspects of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Community
  4. Resilience Lessons (good or bad) from the Community

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Conceptual Framework 

Assessing Community Resilience

Applying resilience thinking: Seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems (pdf) - This document serves as the basic guide to the key indicators for assessing community resilience. The 7 Principles that this document outlines are the degree to which a community:
  1. Maintains diversity and redundancy - including biological species, landscape types, knowledge systems, actors, cultural groups, and institutions, which provides different options for responding to change, uncertainty and surprise.
  2. Manages connectivity - to both prevent the rapid spread of disturbances, as well as to facilitate recovery and manage adaptation.
  3. Manages slow variables and feedbacks - to create early warning monitoring systems that may result in more widespread disturbances.
  4. Fosters complex adaptive systems thinking - as the basis from community planning and development policies.
  5. Encourages learning - to enable communities to continuously innovate and experiment with creative adaptations to change.
  6. Broadens participation - to include relevant stakeholders and ensure legitimacy in the decision making process.
  7. Promotes polycentric governance systems - through a hierarchy of connected and nested institutions that enable collective action appropriate to the challenges encountered.

Community Resilience and Tourism

Scale, change and resilience in community tourism planning - outlines one way of understanding the relationships between resilience and community tourism. The first figure, below, provides an overview of this relationship. The vertical scale ranges from from tourism sites (under the management of individual entrepreneurs, for example) to community, regional and even global scale interests. The horizontal scale transitions from slow to fast change in social and natural environments. The primary resilience issues faced by the four categories are indicated on the right side.

Note that while these are shown as four discrete categories, they are actually four core models with broad transitions between them in which a particular case study example may focus. 
The second figure, below, further extends the basic outline above, by distinguishing between the primary drivers of change being either internal (mostly for site dynamics) or exogenous (and requiring more collective community action). The idea of slow and fast variables is also introduced, with slow variables often being considered more fundamental (or "controlling") of responses exhibited through fast variable changes.

This figure provides generalized examples of the types of case studies that might fit each of the four categories.