Political ecology and tourism /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Nepal, Sanjay Kumar (Editor), Saarinen, Jarkko, 1968- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Routledge studies in political ecology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : political ecology and tourism : concepts and constructs / Sanjay K. Nepal, Jarkko Saarinen and Erin McLean-Purdon
  • Indigenous tourism as a sustainable social-environmental enterprise : the political ecology of tourism in southeast Alaska / Thomas F. Thornton and Paphaphit Wanasuk
  • Political ecology of the flats fishing industry in the Bahamas / Thomas Karrow & Tracey Thompson
  • Decommodifying neoliberal conservation : a political ecology of volunteer tourism in Costa Rica / Noella J. Gray, Lisa M. Campbell, and Alexandra Meeker
  • The politics of community-based ecotourism in Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary, Bbhutan / Heidi Karst and Ngawang Gyeltshen
  • A fragmented shore : class politics and the Connecticut beaches / Adam Keul
  • The call of the wild : power and ideology in the Adirondack Park / Elizabeth S. Vidon
  • Political ecology of community-based natural resources management : principles and practices of power sharing in Botswana / Monkgogi Lenao and Jarkko Saarinen
  • Conservation for whom? : parks, people, and tourism in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal / Smriti Dahal & Sanjay K. Nepal
  • Maya as commodity fetish : accumulation by dispossession and ecotourism in the Yucatan Peninsula / Alex R. Colucci and Amanda N. Mullett
  • A political ecology of tourism in the shadow of an inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua : displacing poverty or displacing social and environmental welfare? / Carter Hunt
  • High-end coastal tourism in northeastern Brazil : implications for local livelihoods and natural resources management / Fernanda de Vasconcellos Pegas
  • Tourism development, dispossession and displacement of local communities in the Ookavango Delta, Botswana / Joseph E. Mbaiwa
  • Context-sensitive political ecology to consolidate local realities under global discourses : a view for tourism studies / Hannu I. Heikkinen, Nicolás Acosta García, Simo Sarkki and Élise Lépy
  • Skwelkwek'welt is what we call this place : indigenous-settler relations and the othered side of British Columbia's Sun Peaks resort / Lisa Cooke
  • Environment, gender and identity : the Taselotzin project by indigenous women in Cuetzalan, Mexico / Isis Saavedra-Luna and Yolanda Massieu-Trigo
  • Conclusions : towards a political ecology of tourism : key issues and research prospects / Jarkko Saarinen and Sanjay K. Nepal.