A resilient organisation or community is one that is able to maintain and adapt its essential structure, identity, and functioning in the face of crisis and change (Adger, 2000; Cumming et al., 2005; Gunderson and Holling, 2002). The resilience concept implies the existence of two or more alternative states characterised by different structures, functions, and identities (Adger, 2000). Once in an alternative state, return to the earlier state can be made difficult or impossible (Walker and Meyers, 2004). Alternative states exist at different scales. At the scale of a small country, region or destination, an economy may shift between sectors, for example from one based on agricultural production (such as sugar cane) to being based on tourism, or vice versa. Alternatively, an economy may shift within sectors, such as changes in the type of tourism, (e.g. from reef tourism to casino tourism).