Green Encounters : : Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica / / Luis A. Vivanco.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Vivanco, Luis A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Ano de Publicação: 2006
• Idioma: English
• coleção: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 3
• Descrição Física: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Abbreviations --; Preface and Acknowledgements --; Chapter One. Introduction: Encounters in a Tropical Cloud Forest --; Part One: Monte Verde’s Visibility --; Introduction --; Chapter Two. Monte Verde’s Agricultural Environment --; Chapter Three. Uneven Terrain: The Practice and Politics of “Saving” Monte Verde --; Part Two: Landscapes and Lives: Environmentalism’s “Social Work” --; Chapter Four. Testing the Boundaries of Environmentalism in a Participatory Age --; Chapter Five. Dismembering San Gerardo: A Cautionary Tale of “Sustainable Development” --; Chapter Six. Contesting “Community” in a Community Conservation Project: The Fight for the Reserva Santa Elena --; Part Three: Monte Verde and the Adolescence of Ecotourism --; Chapter Seven. Quetzals and Other(ing) Spectacles of Tropical Nature --; Chapter Eight. Conclusion: Environmentalism at a Crossroads --; Bibliography --; Index
• Resumo: 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 represents an ideal case study to examine the socio-cultural and political complexities and dilemmas of practicing environmentalism in rural Costa Rica. Based on many years of close observation, this book offers rich and original material on the ongoing struggles between environmental activists and of collective and oppositional politics to Monte Verde’s new “culture of nature.”
• Formato: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857456779; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857456779
• Acesso: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Luis A. Vivanco.

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,...