This book applies a social-ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to increase understanding of the social and environmental implications of nature-based tourism and other forms of conservation-based territorial development. By focusing on Patagonia (as a region) and its various forms of conservation-based development, this book contributes one of the first collections of South American-based lessons and will be valuable to researchers and practitioners, both locally and around the world, seeking to better understand complex interconnections between social and ecological environments, and pursue a similar path to resilience and sustainability.
Preface
1. Introduction
Part 1: Evolution of the Green Economy in Patagonia
2. From local periphery to global center: The evolution of Patagonia through green discourse
3. Territorializing Capital: The Political Economy of Nature in Argentine Patagonia
4. Patagonia: From Frontiers of Exploration to the Commodification of Nature
5. Social representations of territorial conflicts in Chilean Patagonia: Contexts and perspectives on sustainable tourism development
6. Social imaginaries of nature and tourism in Argentine Patagonia: stakeholder beliefs and values and their influence on national park creation
7. Infrastructure for tourism development in the Aysen Region of peripheral Chilean Patagonia: Trajectories and challenges for ecological and territorial connectivity
Part 2: Contemporary conservation based development: Challenges for green integration
8. Tourism and Conservation in the Southern reaches of Patgoinia
9. Values, conflicts, and discourses and the global 30X30 initiative: A case study of Tompkins Conservation initiatives in Patagonia
10. Tensions between tourism, protected area environmental conservation, and indigenous territorial rights in the Pewenche Andes
11. Evolving models of tourism planning and use in protected areas of Chilean Patagonia
12. Local community governance of protected areas and tourism in Patagonia: An integrative management model for Chile's Cerro Castillo National Park
Part 3: Building Resilience and Sustainability
13. A case study of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves along the Chilean-Argentine border in the northern reaches of the Patagonia periphery: Opportunities and challenges for tourism development during the COVID-19 pandemic
14. Reimagining our relationship with Nature in northern Chilean Patagonia: Encounters and miss-encounters with the modern world
15. Key factors of resilience in Patagonian tourist destinations
16. Contributions to resilience and sustainability through time spent in nature
17. Methodology to evaluate the potential for a tourism based in science (Scientific Tourism) in destinations with an abundance of protected wildlife areas: The case of Patagonia
18. Remediating shifting baseline syndrome in the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve via the Field Environmental Philosophy Cycle
19. Conclusion: Research Needs
Dr Trace Gale-Detrich is a researcher in the Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP), where she has worked since 2009 and is currently serving as the coordinator for both the Sustainable Tourism Research Line and the Human-Environmental Interactions group (HEI). As well, she is an associate investigator with the Cape Horn International Center (CHIC in Puerto Williams, Chile. Her research interests focus on human/human and human/non-human interactions within the ecosystems of Patagonia, with most of her work addressing the intersection of conservation and development. Her areas of focus include human values, perceptions, affect, and experiences, with the goal of understanding how these human dynamics converge with regard to environmental stewardship, transdisciplinary governance, human development/wellbeing, and the integration of protected areas with their bordering lands and communities; especially in contexts of territorial transition, involving social and climate change.
Dr Andrea Ednie is currently Interim Associate Dean of the College of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she has worked as a faculty member since 2014. Her research examines protected area planning and stakeholder values, the role of soundscapes within Healthy Parks Healthy People processes, and wellness benefits associated with connections to nature and protected area experiences within Chilean Patagonia and protected areas within the midwestern U.S. She also studies motivations, sense of place, experiences and behaviour choices within the contexts of outdoor recreation management and outdoor exercise. Dr Ednie is currently the Young Scholars Coordinator of the Western Society for Kinesiology & Wellness (WSKW).
Dr Keith Bosak currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Society and Conservation at the University of Montana, USA. Bosak's research interests are broadly centred on the intersection of conservation and development, and as such, he often studies nature-based tourism and sustainable tourism in the context of development and protected areas. He has conducted research on ecotourism and environmental justice in India, scientific tourism in Chile, and Geotourism in Montana. Aside from tourism, Dr Bosak has conducted research on climate change impacts and adaptations among tribal populations in the Himalayas, private protected areas in Chile, and conservation and development initiatives in Montana. Dr Bosak also conducts workshops on protected area planning and management around the world.