摘要：Understanding the resilience of vulnerable sectors of social-ecological systems is critical inan era of escalating global change. The coral reef tourism sector is highly vulnerable not only to ecologicaleffects of climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances on reefs, but also to shocks such as economicrecession and energy price escalation. Commercial tourism enterprises are key players in reef tourism inAustralia and elsewhere. However, the factors that confer resilience to reef-based tourism enterprises, orthe reef tourism sector more broadly, in the face of large disturbances have not been investigated to date.This paper empirically examines the perceived resilience of reef tourism enterprises on Australia's GreatBarrier Reef to large disturbances or shocks. Binary logistic regression analysis of two measures ofenterprise resilience demonstrates the importance of human capital in strengthening enterprise resilience.Lifestyle identity, measured as the extent to which owners and senior managers are active in reef tourismas a lifestyle choice, is positively related to enterprise resilience. Finally, reef tourism enterprises indicatethat financial and marketing support are the most important actions that government can take to supportenterprises in the face of a large shock
关键词：coral reefs; disturbance; global change; resilience; shock; tourism; vulnerability
