Author
Shrestha, P., Karahan, Ebru Ergoz, Boyacioglu, Didem, Gocer, O.
Publication Date
2024-04
Publication Place
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Elsevier
Subject
Infrastructure, Conservation, Rural heritage community resilience, Rural settlements, Cultural tourism
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
0743-0167
Record ID
a19f736e-a47f-4ee4-add9-82119d1e14f9
Library Location
Architecture
Date
2024-04
Sample Text
Rural heritage settlements have encountered many challenges and risks due to the rapid evolution of the cultural tourism economy, such as changing demographics, overcrowding, evolving consumer demands, and biodiversity loss. Conservation of environmental and sociocultural assets of these rural settlements and strengthening community resilience have been considered indispensable in global sustainable development. In this regard, a growing body of research has investigated the implications to wider issues of environmental sustainability through lessons learned from these rural, vernacular settlements. However, discussions on transformation driven by tourism and socio-cultural resilience in rural contexts have attracted limited attention. Contributing to this gap in the literature, based on a longitudinal survey study (spanning from 2000 to 2022) conducted in Behramkale (rural, vernacular village in Turkiye), this paper investigates rural community resilience strategies adopted by residents to cope with transformation led by cultural tourism and strict heritage conservation restrictions. The study results showed that the new development area (new settlement) of the village served as an infrastructure of the old settlement, by means of a home for the local residents, and an economic asset for the village. The establishment of the new settlement, to some extent, prevented the displacement of local residents and provided the continuation of the traditional rural economy in the village.
DOI
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103238
Cilt
107
