What's political ecology got to do with tourism?

Douglas, Jason A.

doi:10.1080/14616688.2013.864324

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“…Certainly, natural resources being used by tourist industry may have different impacts. Thus, the Political Ecology of Tourism approach is a good conceptual framework in order to understand and define the relationship between environment and society [7]. Tourist sector is known as a big water consumer [5] because tourists not only consume water for personal uses, but they consume it through numerous leisure activities in which water use is required [8].…”

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Tourist development and wastewater treatment in the Spanish Mediterranean coast: the costa brava case study

Gabarda-Mallorquí¹,

Fraguell²,

Gamero³

et al. 2016

Int. J. SDP

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The Costa Brava (Girona, Spain) is one of the pioneering regions along the Spanish Mediterranean coast in terms of wastewater treatment. Since the 1950s, the water quality in swimming areas has been affected by the ongoing tourist development. However, at the same time, this issue has motivated the implementation of wastewater treatment systems that, otherwise, would have been delayed. With that mission, the Costa Brava Consortium (CCB) was created in 1971. The CCB is a public institution formed by all the municipalities along the coast of Girona, the head of Girona province and the watershed authority (formerly called the Eastern Pyrenees Hydrographical Confederation). Taking a conceptual approach derived from the Political Ecology of Tourism, the aim of this study is to explore the close relationship among the tourism boom, the economic and technologic investments related to wastewater management, and the improvement of environmental quality of the Costa Brava swimming areas.We believe that the tourist sector has forced public administrations to minimize the environmental impact derived from tourist activities. In fact, wastewater treatment has contributed to achieve improved and optimal swimming conditions in beaches, the most valuable resource for sun and sand tourist sector. The increasingly strict environmental regulations issued at European level have an important role in the discursive legitimation of high public expenses. Nevertheless, water-related management costs have been progressively financed by tax-payers, under pretexts of economic crisis or limited public budget. In addition, private capital is considered as the only way to maintain present infrastructures and to invest in new ones.

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Tourist development and wastewater treatment in the Spanish Mediterranean coast: the costa brava case study

Gabarda-Mallorquí¹,

Fraguell²,

Gamero³

et al. 2016

Int. J. SDP

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“…Based on the necessity to analyse ecological issues from a political economy perspective (Stonich, 1998;Wolf, 1972), a central focus is on social relations and attributes of power of stakeholders on multiple scales that together shape how nature and society are socially constructed and discursively connected (Douglas, 2014). Neumann (2011) adds that symbolic meanings in production and consumption of landscapes, for instance for tourism purposes, are Pre-print version from the article published in Tourism Geographies, 2015. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2015.1053973#.VX_Yc_ntlHw multiple and contested.…”

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“…Empowered stakeholders have the capacity to give physical and symbolic form to landscapes so that they can also shape the meaning that is imbued in landscapes (Blaikie, 1995;Douglas, 2014;Greer, Donnelly, & Ricky, 2008;Greider & Garkovich, 1994;Kolås, 2004;Neumann, 2011). To deal with these knowledge claims, all potentially affected stakeholders, some of which may operate on different spatial scales and locations, should be included in the management of landscape processes (Greider & Garkovich, 1994;Higgins et al, 2012;Mitchell, 2002;Paasi, 1996;Wray, Espiner, & Perkins, 2010).…”

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“…Neumann (2011) adds that symbolic meanings in production and consumption of landscapes, for instance for tourism purposes, are Pre-print version from the article published in Tourism Geographies, 2015. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2015.1053973#.VX_Yc_ntlHw multiple and contested. Power positions shape dominant discourses in the social construction of nature and determine who profits and who is disadvantaged in a social, economic and ecological sense from commodification of these natural resources (Blaikie, 1995;Douglas, 2014;Neumann, 2011;Stonich, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Political ecology provides a critical and 'interdisciplinary lens' (Douglas, 2014, p. 1) to study humanenvironment interactions, environmental conflict and the inequitable benefits which stakeholders obtain from natural resource use (Douglas, 2014;Robbins, 2012;Stonich, 1998).…”

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What's political ecology got to do with tourism?

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Tourist development and wastewater treatment in the Spanish Mediterranean coast: the costa brava case study

Tourist development and wastewater treatment in the Spanish Mediterranean coast: the costa brava case study

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