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Selling Conservation? Scientific Legitimacy and the Commodification of Conservation Tourism
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Cousins, Jenny A; School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester; Jenny.Cousins@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk; Evans, James; School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester; jp.evans@manchester.ac.uk; Sadler, Jon; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham; j.p.sadler@bham.ac.uk.
Conservation tourism is a rapidly growing subsector of ecotourism that engages paying volunteers as active participants in conservation projects. Once the preserve of charities, the sector now hosts a proliferation of private companies seeking to make money by selling international conservation work to tourists as a commodity. The commodification of conservation depends upon balancing the scientific legitimacy of projects against the need to offer desirable tourist experiences. Drawing on interviews with UK tour operators and their counterparts in South Africa who run the conservation projects, we explore the transnational geography of commercial conservation tourism, charting how scientific legitimacy is constructed and negotiated within the industry....
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Commodification; Conservation science; Conservation tourism; Scientific legitimacy; South Africa; United Kingdom.
Ano: 2009

Cultural valuation and biodiversity conservation in the Upper Guinea forest, West Africa
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fraser, James A.; Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; james.angus.fraser@gmail.com; Narmah, Woulay; College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Liberia, Capitol Hill, Monrovia, Liberia; narmahwoulay@yahoo.com; Guilavogui, Kaman; IRAG, CRA, Seredou, Guinea; guilavoguikm@yahoo.fr; de Foresta, Hubert; IRD, UMR AMAP, Montpellier, France; hubert.de.foresta@ird.fr.
The cultural valuation of biodiversity has taken on renewed importance over the last two decades as the ecosystem services framework has become widely adopted. Conservation initiatives increasingly use ecosystem service frameworks to render tropical forest landscapes and their peoples legible to market-oriented initiatives such as REDD+ and biodiversity offsetting schemes. Ecosystem service approaches have been widely criticized by scholars in the social sciences and humanities for their narrow focus on a small number of easily quantifiable and marketable services and a reductionist and sometimes simplistic approach to culture. We address the need to combine methods from each of the &amp;#8220;three cultures&amp;#8221; of natural science, quantitative...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Anthropogenic landscapes; Conservation science; Cultural heritage; Ecosystem services; Sacred forests; Secondary forests.
Ano: 2016