Arcadia
The Galápagos Islands: A Natural Laboratory?
Is it possible to conserve the Galápagos Islands as a “natural laboratory” in the Anthropocene?
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Multimedia | journal article
"Why Exchange Values are Not Environmental Values: Explaining the Problem with Neoliberal Conservation"
Examining the case of the Bellbird Biological Corridor in Costa Rica, Karen Allen argues that conservation policy should reinforce multifaceted social values toward sustainable landscapes, rather than promote economic incentives that reduce environmental benefits to exchange value.
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"Austerity Politics and the Post-Politicisation of Conservation Governance in Canada"
Focusing on Jasper National Park, Megan Youdelis argues that austerity politics create the conditions for a re-articulation of the politics of conservation governance as the interests of parks departments and private sector interests are brought into alignment.
Perspectives
Out of the Mountains: Changing Landscapes in Rural China
Zhen Wang’s photo essay explores in detail how nearly 40 years of urbanization and rapid economic development have transformed the past, present, and future of the Yi population and of China’s rural and cultural landscapes.
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"Consuming the Tiger: Experiencing Neoliberal Nature"
Based on participant observation, the author offers an ethnographic account of urban middle class Indian tourists’ experience of seeing the tiger in Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan, and Kanha and Bandhavgarh National Parks in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Arcadia
Tropical Australia's Crocodile Entrepreneurs
Crocodiles attract tourists, and since the late 1940s, they have been used to promote travel to northern Australia.
Multimedia | journal article
Review of Green Wars by Megan Ybarra
Anja Nygren reviews the 2017 book Green Wars: Colonization and Conservation in the Maya Forest by Megan Ybarra.
Arcadia
Managing Tourism and Environmental Protection in Lake Ohrid in the 1970s and 1980s
This article examines the development of lake Ohrid in Macedonia, and the dilemma between environmental protection and the expansion of mass tourism on the lake’s fragile shores.
Exhibition chapter
Overland Excursions | CB&Q Railroad
This is Chapter 9 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter focuses on how the CB&Q promoted migration, settlement, and tourism into the western states and territories of America.
Exhibition chapter
Wilderness as an Adjective—Latin American Spanish | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by geographer María José Barragán-Paladines, highlights the immense spectrum of variations of wilderness within the Spanish-speaking world that make the term a rich and complex source for semantics.