Tourism and Conservation-based Development in the Periphery: Lessons from Patagonia for a Rapidly Changing World [Paperback]

This open access book applies a social ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to increase understanding of the social and environmental implications of nature-based tourism and other forms of conservation-based territorial development. By focusing on Patagonia (as a region) and its various forms of conservation-based development, this book contributes one of the first collections of South American based lessons and will be valuable to researchers and practitioners, both locally and around the world, seeking to better understand complex interconnections between social and ecological environments, and pursue a similar path to resilience and sustainability.

 

1. Introduction.- 2. From local periphery to global center: The evolution of Patagonia through green discourse.- 3. Territorializing Capital: The Political Economy of Nature in Argentine Patagonia.- 4. Patagonia: From Frontiers of Exploration to the Commodification of Nature.- 5. Social representations of territorial conflicts in Chilean Patagonia: Contexts and perspectives on sustainable tourism development.- 6. Social imaginaries of nature and tourism in Argentine Patagonia: stakeholder beliefs and values and their influence on national park creation.- 7. Infrastructure for tourism development in the Ays?n Region of peripheral Chilean Patagonia: Trajectories and challenges for ecological and territorial connectivity.- 8. Tourism and Conservation in the Southern reaches of Patgoinia.- 9. Values, conflicts, and discourses and the global 30X30 initiative: A case study of Tompkins Conservation initiatives in Patagonia.- 10. Tensions between tourism, protected area environmental conservation, and indigenous territorial rights in the Pewenche Andes.- 11. Evolving models of tourism planning and use in protected areas of Chilean PalÀ