Bitten by Success: Conflicts Over Tourism Revenue and Natural Resources at Komodo National Park
The expanding popularity of Komodo National Park has engendered conflicts over access to its resources and tourism revenue.
The expanding popularity of Komodo National Park has engendered conflicts over access to its resources and tourism revenue.
This essay examines the dominant images of rainforests and rainforest peoples portrayed in accounts of travels in tropical America published in National Geographic.
A small seaside village in Brazil has been found by tourists and is now coveted by real estate developers.
Traces the changes in the economy and land use in the Greater Caribbean from the colonial period to the present.
In this Arcadia article, Claudia Leal shows how the early history of Colombia’s Tayrona National Park reveals the extent to which it has been shaped by state policies: evictions, restrictions to land use, and a fierce battle against tourism interests.
In the early 1920s one of the first European national parks was established in a densely populated area to foster both nature protection and economic growth.
Kamikōchi is the southern gateway to the Japan Alps, which in 1934 was one of the first areas in Japan to be designated a national park. This was the result of a rapid rise to prominence that followed a 1927 newspaper poll of Japanese landscapes.
DeWitt explores tensions between national parks, private sector tourism, and environmentalism. Although private business owners feel connected to nature and play a role in park guardianship, a longstanding mistrust of private sector activity in and around national parks means their voices are often overlooked. The article calls for greater attention to the significance of gateway communities.
Through examining topics of nuclear energy and tourism, Zivilgesellschaft und Protest portrays the transitions towards radicalism in the Bavarian environmental movement from the end of the Second World War to the late 1970s.
This article addresses the social implications of fishers leaving activities connected with small-scale fisheries, with an emphasis on food sovereignty.