One of my students did a good research on eco-tourism in Latin America. Here are a few sources: Boza, Mario. "Conservation in Action: Past, Present, and Future of the National Park System of Costa Rica." Conservation Biology. 7.2 (1993): 239-247. Durham, William H. "Fishing for Solutions: Ecotourism and Conservation in Galapagos National Park.” Ecotourism and Conservation in the Americas. Ed. Amanda Stronza and William H. Durham. Oxon, United Kingdom: CAB International, 2008. Holl , Karen D, Gretchen C Daily, and Paul R. Erhlich. "Knowledge and Perceptions in Costa Rica Regarding Environment, Population, and Biodiversity Issues." Conservation Biology. 9.6 (1995): 1548-1558 Martin, Edward. "Sustainable Development, Postmodern Capitalism, and Environmental Policy and Management in Costa Rica." Contemporary Justice Review. 7.2 (2004): 153- 169. Snider, Anthony G., Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Erin O. Sills, and Jamie L. Schuler. "Policy Innovations for Private Forest Management and Conservation in Costa Rica." Journal of Forestry. 101.5 (2003): 18-23 Toly, Noah. "Globalization and the Capitalization of Nature: A Political Ecology of Biodiversity in Mesoamerica." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. 24.1 (2004): 47-54 Best, Lada
Lada V. Kochtcheeva Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Political Science School of Public and International Affairs North Carolina State University > Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:29:35 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [gep-ed] Comparative Latin American environmental policy/politics > To: [email protected] > > Dear all, > > It looks (almost 90% sure) as though I'll be teaching a course next year > on Comparative Latin American Environmental Politics. I'm obviously > aware of work around Mexican climate/energy policy (Simone Pulver), > Mexican pollution and wastewater policy (myself if I am allowed to toot > my own horn), and Mexican environmental politics in general (forestry > Jordi Diez, overall Stephen Mumme). I'm quite familiar with Kathy > Hochstetler and Mimi Keck's work on Brazilian environmental politics. > I'm at a relative loss on the rest of Latin America, to be quite frank. > So I would very much appreciate any directions towards folks' work on > Latin American environmental politics. I will compile a list (next week > as right now I'm in the throes of marking 130 final papers) and will > post it to GEP-ED. > > I think the countries I would be most interested in would be obviously > Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile. I have at least a friend who > has looked at the political ecology of Mapuche's relationships within > Chilean forestry (du Monceau 2008) so I'm less worried about finding > sources on Chilean environmental policy, but the rest of Latin America, > I'm wondering... thoughts much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Raul
