Green Encounters : Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vivanco, Luis A.

Series:

Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--Costa Rica--Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde.

Environmentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Summary:

Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would argue, Latin America. It has received substantial attention in literature and media on tropical conservation, sustainable development, and tourism. Yet most of that analysis has uncritically evaluated the Monte Verde phenomenon, using celebratory language and barely scratching the surface of the many-faceted socio-cultural transformations provoked by and accompanying environmentalism. Because of its stature, Monte Verde represen

Contents:

Green Encounters; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Encounters in a Tropical Cloud Forest; Part One: Monte Verde's Visibility; 2. Monte Verde's Agricultural Environment; 3. Uneven Terrain: The Practice and Politics of "Saving" Monte Verde; Part Two: Landscapes and Lives: Environmentalism's "Social Work"; 4. Testing the Boundaries of Environmentalism in a Participatory Age; 5. Dismembering San Gerardo: A Cautionary Tale of "Sustainable Development"

6. Contesting "Community" in a Community Conservation Project: The Fight for the Reserva Santa ElenaPart Three: Monte Verde and the Adolescence of Ecotourism; 7. Quetzals and Other(ing) Spectacles of Tropical Nature; 8. Conclusion: Environmentalism at a Crossroads; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780857456779

0857456776