Romancing the Wild - Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism

Informationen zum Autor Robert Fletcher Klappentext Robert Fletcher, a cultural anthropologist, is Associate Professor in the Department of Environment and Development at the United Nations–mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. He is the editor of Beyond Resistance: The Future of Freedom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Encountering Experience 1 1. The Ecotourism Experience 29 2. Becoming an Ecotourist 45 3. Playing on the Edge 72 4. Affluence and Its Discontents 91 5. Call of the Wild 113 6. Ecotourism at Large 130 7. The Ecotourist Gaze 149 Conclusion. The Teachings of Don Quixote 167 Notes 191 Bibliography 215 Index 245

Product details

• Authors: Robert Fletcher
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2014
• EAN: 9780822355830
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5583-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 20 mm
• Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F; New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches