The ecotourism-extraction nexus [electronic resource] : political economies and rural realities of (un)comfortable bedfellows / edited by Bram Bèuscher and Veronica Davidov.

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TextSeries: Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods ; 10.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.Description: xviii, 281 p. : ill., mapsISBN:

9780203384855 (e-book : PDF)

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1. Introduction : the ecotourism-extraction nexus / Veronica Davidov and Bram Bèuscher -- 2. Conceptualizing lived experiences within the political economy of the ecotourism-extraction nexus / Bram Bèuscher and Veronica Davidov -- 3. Gems of Ankarana : the commodification and generification of Madagascar's natural wonders / Andrew Walsh -- 4. 'Horticulture in harmony with wildlife' : the awkward marriage of ecotourism and industrial floriculture in Naivasha Kenya / Megan A. Styles -- 5. Between the cattle and the deep blue sea : the Janus face of the ecotourism-extraction nexus in Costa Rica / Robert Fletcher -- 6. Mother Nature's best kept secret? Exploring the discursive terrain and lived experience of the ecotourism-extraction nexus in Southern Belize / James Stinson -- 7. Mining the forest: epical and novelesque boundaries along the Upper Bulolo River, Papua New Guinea / Jamon Alex Halvaksz -- 8. Ecological tourism and elite minerals in Karelia : the Veps' experience with extraction, commodification, and circulation of natural resources / Veronica Davidov -- 9. Crude desires and 'green' initiatives : indigenous development and oil extraction in Amazonian Ecuador / Timothy J. Smith -- 10. 'Greening' dispossession : mining nature through ecotourism in the Dominican Southwest / Luisa J. Rollins-Castillo -- 11. Ecotourism and extraction in Saami lands : contradictions and continuities / Florence Revelin -- 12. Local sovereignty in the context of the extraction-ecotourism nexus in Northwest Ecuador : post-neoliberal vignettes from Intag-Manduriacos cloud forests / Linda D'Amico -- 13. 'Ecotourism, not mining, in Palawan!' Territorial narratives on the last frontier (Palawan, the Philippines) / Elisabet Dueholm Rasch -- 14. Concluding engagements at the (ecotourism-extraction) nexus / Wolfram Dressler.

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