Political ecology of tourism

Stonich, Susan C.

doi:10.1016/s0160-7383(97)00037-6

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“…In part, this is due to the water demands of landscaping, swimming pools, and golf courses that accompany luxury style tourism in dry landscapes. Disproportionate water usage by tourism has been known to produce conflict and often results in water insecurity due to physical, social, and political contingencies [5,11,14].…”

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“…A political ecology approach to water governance entails attention to the multiple spatial scales, be they geographic, social, political, temporal, and/or ecological [6][7][8][9][10][11]. For example, national water laws mediate the experience of "local" water use, access, and distribution; these laws thus merit attention even in contexts that appear insulated from national legislation and political governing centers, as is often the case for rural settings.…”

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Challenges to Water Security along the “Emerald Coast”: A Political Ecology of Local Water Governance in Nicaragua

LaVanchy

Romano

Taylor

2017

Water

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Despite being a water-rich country, Nicaragua struggles to secure clean water access for many of its residents. In addition to distributional and water quality issues, a prolonged drought affecting all regions of the country has compounded preexisting governance challenges to ensuring rural water needs. This article focuses on a rural community along the southwest Pacific Coast of Tola, Nicaragua, where tourism development and drought converge to produce and exacerbate water insecurity. This article examines this water insecurity in the context of two recent national water laws in Nicaragua (passed in 2007 and 2010 respectively) that sought to provide a more comprehensive legal framework for freshwater water governance. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews and groundwater and meteorological data, we contend that water laws have not effectively mediated the hydrological effects of prolonged drought and tourism development, resulting in pronounced water insecurity for local populations in Tola. We cast the findings of this research as relevant to other water insecure areas in Latin America where industry development and weak policy implementation impact the creation and resolution of local water security-including insecurity compounded by increased climatic variability.

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Challenges to Water Security along the “Emerald Coast”: A Political Ecology of Local Water Governance in Nicaragua

LaVanchy

Romano

Taylor

2017

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“…The political economy approach and the political ecology variant (Cole, 2012;Gossling, 2003;Stonich, 1998) have been increasingly applied in tourism development to explore the relationships between different stakeholders and understand how political forces interact and generate change at a destination level.…”

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Power, Ownership and Tourism in Small Islands: Evidence from Indonesia

Hampton

Jeyacheya

2015

World Development

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This paper examines the political economy of tourism development in islands and uses Gili Trawangan, Indonesia as a case study. A longitudinal study drawing from fieldwork contributes to the discussion of how different types of power shape community development, and how the effects of hosting international tourism play an explicit role. Analysis using Barnett and Duvall's Taxonomy of Power model reveals the interplay between the types of power over time and its effects on different actors.Results raise questions for Less Developed Countries, and particularly islands, concerning the social costs of using tourism for development.

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“…Research on developing country contexts is sparser, with the exceptions of Bali (Cole, 2012 and2014), Honduras (Stonich, 1998) and Zanzibar (Gössling, 2001). A recent article by Gössling et al (2012) provides a quantitative overview of the impact of tourism on water use, arguing that spatial and temporal aspects, such as seasonality, changes in water quality and competing water uses, need to be 4 taken into account.…”

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Towards a gendered political economy of water and tourism

Cole

Ferguson

2015

Tourism Geographies

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In many holiday destinations, the tourism industry exerts an enormous strain on water supplies. This generates a range of social problems, not least because local inhabitants often have to compete with the tourism sector over the access, allocation and use of water for their personal and domestic needs. Nevertheless, there has been very little academic research on the link between tourism and the impact of water scarcity on destination populations in developing countries. While there is a wealth of literature on gender and tourism development, such research has tended to focus on employment relations and tourism policy and planning, neglecting ecological issues such as water. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, in 2013, this paper makes a preliminary attempt to address this gap in the literature by developing a gendered political economy approach to water in tourism development.Three key themes are identified from this research: the salience of intersectional inequalities of gender, class and nationality, in particular the different experiences of Nicaraguan women, Costa Rican women and women from the Global North; how the role of social reproduction is vital to understanding gender and water in Tamarindo due to enduring assumptions about women's perceived responsibility for water; and the gendered dimensions of conflicts over water. Such conflicts are highly gendered and contribute to reshaping of power relations in this international tourism destination. In the conclusions, we argue that our findings demonstrate the need to pay attention to both intersectionality and social reproduction, as well as to identify a future research agenda for developing a gendered political economy approach to tourism and water.

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Political ecology of tourism

Cited by 189 publications

References 20 publications

Challenges to Water Security along the “Emerald Coast”: A Political Ecology of Local Water Governance in Nicaragua

Challenges to Water Security along the “Emerald Coast”: A Political Ecology of Local Water Governance in Nicaragua

Power, Ownership and Tourism in Small Islands: Evidence from Indonesia

Towards a gendered political economy of water and tourism

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