On Visitors’ Minds

Rossi, Sebastian Dario; Alvarez, María Alisa; Aschero, Valeria; Hellvig, Muriel; Bonjour, Lorena de Jesús; Mazzolari, Ana Clara; Scarpa, Juan Pablo; Barros, Agustina

doi:10.1079/9781800620544.0014

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“…They may remain unaware of environmental problems such as IAS that significantly undermine the integrity of the natural environment and biodiversity (Perrings et al 2002). This is important, as Rossi et al (2022) revealed a link between visitors' IAS knowledge and their willingness to support IAS management. However, this study suggests that engaging tourists as supporters for IAS management or eradication may be problematic when they have "contrasting conservation narratives" (Zhang et al 2021: 9) that do not align with official IAS management initiatives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research on tourists instead more broadly addresses biosecurity perceptions and behaviors (e.g., Kim et al 2021;Melly and Hanrahan 2020). While we do know that environmentally engaged visitors may be more aware of IAS and supportive of management (Johnson 2022;Rossi et al 2022), our knowledge of how attitudes toward IAS vary across social groups is limited. Yet this is potentially important, not only because of the cross-national nature of tourism, but also because of our increasingly culturally and ethnically diverse societies (e.g., Gest 2021).…”

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Tourists’ (mis)understandings of nature: international and domestic visitors’ perceptions of invasive alien plants in New Zealand

Lovelock,

Ji,

Carr

et al. 2023

Invasive plant sci. manag.

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Tourism, as one of the world largest economic sectors, moving a substantial body of individuals and materials about the world, is implicated in the spread of invasive plants and is itself impacted by biological invasions which can degrade touristic landscapes and affect destination communities. Tourists constitute not only an immediate biological threat, but through their landscape and biota preferences also constitute a substantial economic and ecological force that has implications for invasive plant management in destinations. Tourists and the tourism industry are therefore significant stakeholders in invasive plant introduction, spread and management. This paper discusses an onsite survey (n=231) of domestic and international visitors in New Zealand, a destination where invasive species are an important ecological and economic issue. Findings show that visitors have a low understanding of the presence and level of threat of invasive plants, and express preferences for some plants that are highly invasive. However, there were substantial variations across the international sample, with visitors from Asian and European ethnicities expressing significantly different attitudes towards a range of invasive plants. Asian visitors were more likely to show preferences for some plants that were seriously invasive, and to be more accepting in general of invasive plants within landscapes, and less supportive of invasive species eradication. These findings suggest that attitudes towards invasive plants and their management may be culturally determined, which poses challenges for managers aiming to generate awareness and support from across diverse tourist cohorts for invasive species control. There are also challenges for gaining support from the tourism industry for invasive plant control programmes where particular ‘charismatic’ or attractive invasive plants may contribute to touristic landscapes and visitor itineraries.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourists’ (mis)understandings of nature: international and domestic visitors’ perceptions of invasive alien plants in New Zealand

Lovelock,

Ji,

Carr

et al. 2023

Invasive plant sci. manag.

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Árboles, memorias y representaciones en las disputas por paisajes e identidades en Valle de Uco, centro-oeste argentino

Mafferra,

Saldi,

Besio

2024

Rev. Mus. Antrop.

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A partir de concebir a la vegetación como compuesta por sentidos, representaciones e historias, en el presente artículo exponemos y problematizamos cómo determinados árboles y arbustos están inmersos en tramas desiguales de construcción de identidades étnicas y paisajes. A través de un estudio que relaciona la labor etnográfica con la búsqueda de fuentes históricas y artículos periodísticos actuales, indagamos en las memorias y las representaciones que se construyen sobre el manzano, el chañar, el chacay y la rosa mosqueta situados en el centro-oeste de la provincia de Mendoza. Postulamos que esta vegetación activa y construye memorias que catalizan la inclusión, jerarquización o resistencias de identidades étnicas y de los paisajes a los que está asociada. Nuestra área de estudio se sitúa junto a la cordillera frontal de Los Andes, en una de las primeras zonas irrigadas del Valle de Uco, la cual, hacia las tres últimas décadas viene experimentando un proceso de extranjerización y concentración de la tierra y el agua y de reactualización del imaginario europeo-civilizatorio promovido por el estado provincial desde fines del siglo XIX.

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On Visitors’ Minds

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Tourists’ (mis)understandings of nature: international and domestic visitors’ perceptions of invasive alien plants in New Zealand

Tourists’ (mis)understandings of nature: international and domestic visitors’ perceptions of invasive alien plants in New Zealand

Árboles, memorias y representaciones en las disputas por paisajes e identidades en Valle de Uco, centro-oeste argentino

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