Rain Forest Entrepreneurs: Cashing in on Conservation

Carr, Thomas A.; Pedersen, Heather L.; Ramaswamy, Sunder

doi:10.1080/00139157.1993.9929990

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“…This study advances understanding of an entrepreneurial profile manifest in ecotourism operators. Previous ecotourism studies have focused on ecotourism’s ability to deliver environmental conservation or community development (Boo, 1990; Carr et al, 1993; Coria and Calfucura, 2012; Gurung and Seeland, 2011; Kontogeorgopoulos, 2005; Okech, 2011). In contrast, this study has developed new insights through locating the entrepreneur as the ecotourism unit of analysis.…”

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Who wants to be an eco-entrepreneur? Identifying entrepreneurial types and practices in ecotourism businesses

Swan

Morgan

2016

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Entrepreneurs have been characterized according to recognizable types according to attendant concerns and motivations. Within the small business sector of ecotourism, entrepreneurs must balance competing goals pertaining to business objectives, lifestyle aspirations and, most importantly, sustainable environmental practices. This study reports how ecotourism eco-entrepreneurs perceive and manage these goals, consistent with concerns and motivations, based on semi-structured interviews of small business operators. The findings show that eco-entrepreneurs’ social and sustainable characteristics are critical to overcome financially challenging and complex operating environments whilst also delivering a desired lifestyle. As a business strategy, eco-entrepreneurs were found to deliberately maintain small, low-impact ecotourism operations consistent with identified eco-values. Looking forward, eco-entrepreneurs forecast imminent threats to the ecotourism sector through uncontrolled development and mass-tourism business access to sensitive natural areas. If unresolved, this process will replace eco-entrepreneurs in small ecotourism operators with traditional profit-oriented entrepreneurs delivering undifferentiated and high-impact nature-based tourism experiences.

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Who wants to be an eco-entrepreneur? Identifying entrepreneurial types and practices in ecotourism businesses

Swan

Morgan

2016

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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“…In 1988, it was generating between two and twelve billion (US) dollars annually (Carr 1993). The Ecotourism Society forecasts that the industry will grow 20 to 25 percent by 1995 (Frank & Bowerman 1994).…”

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“…In 1989, the ecotourism industry made up approximately 7 percent of all international travel expenditures (Ceballos-Lascurain 1993). In 1988, it was generating between two and twelve billion (US) dollars annually (Carr 1993). The Ecotourism Society forecasts that the industry will grow 20 to 25 percent by 1995 (Frank & Bowerman 1994).…”

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Ethics and Ecotourism

Karwacki¹,

Boyd²

1995

Business Ethics: A European Review

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The world's largest industry is trying to become environmentally sensitive, but is it succeeding? Judy Karwacki, currently working towards an MBA, has an MA in Political Studies; she runs a travel agency in Saskatoon and has a very strong personal interest in ecotourism. Colin Boyd is Professor of Management at the College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada S7N OWO, and an Associate Editor of this Review.ccording to the World Travel and Tour-

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“…10. Two recent titles from the journal Environment, for example, cheerfully announce "Rain Forest Entrepreneurs: Cashing in on Conservation" (Carr et al 1993) and "Making Biodiversity Conservation Profitable" (Blum 1993 June 16, 1994. 18.…”

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Local Challenges to Global Agendas: Conservation, Economic Liberalization and the Pastoralists' Rights Movement in Tanzania

Neumann¹

1995

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S Since the mid‐1980s, “democratization” and structural adjustment, have been transforming domestic political economies throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, these processes could significantly alter the terrain in the conflict between local land rights and state wildlife conservation. The situation has become increasingly complex as the parties involved ‐ land‐holders, state and international conservation agencies ‐ are joined by land rights political organizations, domestic conservation groups and foreign capital. The paper focuses on struggles over land and resource rights, specifically on new forms of grassroots political action which has emerged on the question of wildlife conservation in national parks. At the same time, tourism is expanding with an influx of foreign capital. The paper explores the implications of the interactions between these forces.

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Rain Forest Entrepreneurs: Cashing in on Conservation

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Who wants to be an eco-entrepreneur? Identifying entrepreneurial types and practices in ecotourism businesses

Who wants to be an eco-entrepreneur? Identifying entrepreneurial types and practices in ecotourism businesses

Ethics and Ecotourism

Local Challenges to Global Agendas: Conservation, Economic Liberalization and the Pastoralists' Rights Movement in Tanzania

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