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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.
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"Representations of Tropical Forests and Tropical Forest-Dwellers in Travel Accounts of National Geographic"
This essay examines the dominant images of rainforests and rainforest peoples portrayed in accounts of travels in tropical America published in National Geographic.
Multimedia | film profile
São Miguel do Gostoso
A small seaside village in Brazil has been found by tourists and is now coveted by real estate developers.
Perspectives Article
Rising Waters: Submersion and Survival in Yung Chang’s Up the Yangtze
Using Yung Chang’s 2007 documentary film Up the Yangtze, Weik von Mossner unravels the power struggles accompanying the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant—the Three Gorges Dam in China.
Perspectives Article
The Greater Caribbean: From Plantations to Tourism
Traces the changes in the economy and land use in the Greater Caribbean from the colonial period to the present.
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More Than a “Paper Park”: Tayrona, a Caribbean Paradise
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.
Multimedia | book profile
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies.
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Nature, Beauty, Tourism: The Concurrent Roots of Abruzzo National Park
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.
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“The Most Beautiful Valley in Japan”: Kamikōchi, the Japan Alps, and National Parks in Japan
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.
Perspectives Article
Between Stewardship and Exploitation: Private Tourism, State Parks, and Environmentalism
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.