IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijsusd/v5y2002i3p300-325.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Conservation narratives and the "received wisdom" of ecotourism: case studies from Costa Rica

Author

Listed:
  • Lisa M. Campbell

Abstract

Ecotourism can be considered to be the "dictated solution" of a conservation counter-narrative that calls for both sustainable use of wildlife and community-based conservation. This paper addresses the promotion of ecotourism by a specific group of wildlife conservation "experts", and the implementation of ecotourism as a conservation strategy at three case-study sites in rural Costa Rica. In 1995, in-depth interviews were undertaken with 42 conservation experts and with 12 key informants at the case-study sites. Findings suggest that conservation experts promote ecotourism because it is preferable to more consumptive uses of wildlife, and because it allows experts to repeat the language of the counter-narrative, while continuing to implement traditional conservation solutions, i.e. establishment of parks and protected areas.

Suggested Citation

  • Lisa M. Campbell, 2002. "Conservation narratives and the "received wisdom" of ecotourism: case studies from Costa Rica," International Journal of Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(3), pages 300-325.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijsusd:v:5:y:2002:i:3:p:300-325
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=3755
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Liu, Jingyan & Qu, Hailin & Huang, Danyu & Chen, Gezhi & Yue, Xiao & Zhao, Xinyuan & Liang, Zhuida, 2014. "The role of social capital in encouraging residents' pro-environmental behaviors in community-based ecotourism," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 190-201.
    2. Catalin Ioan Nechifor, 2014. "Tourism and Sustainable Development. Implications at Local Community Level," Acta Universitatis Danubius. OEconomica, Danubius University of Galati, issue 10(5), pages 99-112, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijsusd:v:5:y:2002:i:3:p:300-325. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=25 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.