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Ecotourism, NGOs and Development
A Critical Analysis
Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Series
Author: Butcher Jim
Language: EnglishSubjects for Ecotourism, NGOs and Development:
Keywords
SNV; concern; Butcher 2003a; sustainable; UN; butcher; Civil Society; 2003a; WTO 2002b; exemplary; Exemplary Sustainable Development; community; Community Tourism Guide; quebec; Sustainable Tourism Development; declaration; Sustainable Tourism; case; CBNRM; study; Quebec Declaration; Ecotourism Projects; CBT; WTO 2002a; Va Ti; Local Development; Sustainable Rural Livelihoods; Pr Om; Traditional Knowledge; Local NGO Partner; Local Resident Attitudes; Strong Sustainability; Socioeconomic Development; Alternative Development Paradigm; Ecosystem People
Publication date: 04-2015
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 03-2007
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Ecotourism has emerged over the last twenty years not just as a market niche, but also as a strategy for combining development with conservation in the developing world. Ecotourism, NGOs and Development considers the basis for advocacy and argues that it is premised upon a very limited and limiting view of the potential for development.
Jim Butcher examines the advocacy of tourism as sustainable development in a range of NGOs and within the general literature. The research reveals that in spite of the plethora of critical commentaries on the operation of ecotourism projects, there is generally an uncritical take on the ideological basis of the projects.
This book offers a timely critique of key assumptions underlying ecotourism's status as sustainable development, arguing that ecotourism as development strategy ties the fate of some of the poorest people on the planet to localized environmental imperatives.
1. The Study and its Premises 2. Ecotourism in Development Perspective 3. Pioneers of Ecotourism: Different Aims, Shared Perspective 4. Community Participation in the Advocacy of Ecotourism 5. Tradition in the Advocacy of Ecotourism 6. Natural Capital in the Advocacy of Ecotourism 7. Symbiosis Revisited 8. Concluding Comments