This is an interdisciplinary book on tourism, sustainability,
nature conservation and preservation, public policies, politics,
power relations, partnerships and discursive constructions which
presents tourism-related topics and current themes with remarkable
in-depth analysis and introspectful views serving as a source to
various purposes of scholars, researchers, professors, government
staff, planners, policy makers, people of trade and of private
sector, civil society, NGOs, and by those interested in this
subject. It is a book written to be used by individuals of any
discipline within the Social Sciences, such as planning and
management, human geography, and sociolinguistics, etc. The book
has very well-built conceptual, theoretical and methodological
sections because it is based on a four-year doctoral investigation.
Conceptually, the author discusses and applies Social
Constructionism, Critical Realism and Theory of Collaboration to
empirical data, and he discusses and adapts the Critical Discourse
Analysis (CDA) of Norman Fairclough as a methodological tool.
Ismar's contributions to Academia are many and lie in the
development of the Contextual Critical Discourse Analysis (CCDA) as
a qualitative method; as well as his approach on sustainability as
socially constructed in which he labels it as 'liquid
sustainability'. He was also the first scholar to develop the
concept of 'local environmental governance' (LEG) and to apply it
to real cases as an essential element of new ecologically oriented
development models. This book is a very interesting reading with
unique approaches. There are general chapters accessible to a broad
audience in reason of case studies in Brazil where the author draws
on empirical experiences in Amazonia region such as in Marajo
Island, Tapajos-Arapiuns, Maripa, Jamaraqua, Maguari, Silves, Novo
Airao, and in the northeast region of the country, specifically in
Bahia state, namely Itacare, Ilheus, and Una municipalities. This
book is also based on a four-year fieldwork in New Zealand. The
author visited and collected data in Mount Maunganui, Rotorua,
Waimangi, Maungatautari Ecological Island, Bay of Plenty with a
focus on Kuaka Organization, Bay of Islands, Wairere Boulders in
Hokianga, Kauri Park, and other green areas in Far Northland. In
this book, the author examines collaboration schemes and
partnership models by deconstructing them as institutional and
organizational arrangements, and he seeks to underline the various
impacts on local and regional development. It is a praiseworthy
pioneer study and writing on nature-based tourism activities in
protected areas, either being labelled as community-based or not,
as well as (eco)tourism as a public or private endeavour in both
countries. The author is notably knowledgeable on nature-based
tourism and environmental issues and he made a great contribution
to the literature with his pioneer study and writings on ecotourism
in two countries which have been on a worldwide spotlight because
of their nature-based tourism potentialities and activities. The
book presents distinct realities and contexts of two amazing
countries with magnificent, unique landscapes and nature. It
enables an extensive understanding on tourism, planning, public
policies, state role, institutional arrangements and structures,
law, environmental legislation, local stakeholders' views and
perceptions, and nature protection strategies. It greatly maps the
micro geopolitics that exists in all levels of ecotourism
development: in its conceptualisation, design, planning and
management. It examines issues of power in (eco)tourism development
as manifested in the discursive construction and positionality of
local stakeholders.
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