Alpine Masculinity: A Gendered Figuration of Capital in the Patagonian Andes

This article investigates the Patagonian ecotourism industry and the spatial production of gender privilege. The analysis attends to how the spatial practices of park rangers, tourism guides and climbers create a gendered space of capital accumulation that devalues and marginalises othered subjects – such as women and non-alpine men – within specific domains of nature. Developing the concept of a figuration of capital, this article argues that the ecotourism industry has facilitated the rise of an alpine masculine subject based upon key bodily values: robust physicality, a conservationist ethic and heroic narration about engaging wilderness.     

An anatomy of dispossession: post-apartheid land rights and farm dweller relocation in the context of a private game reserve initiative,northern KwaZulu-Natal

This article is a detailed examination of the impact that the development of a private game reserve initiative in northern KwaZulu-Natal had on the lives of farm dwellers in the late 1990s. The reshaping of this landscape for ecotourism purposes – a decision taken by a group of private landowners – meant that the residents of the former cattle farms were relocated, a process which had serious consequences for them. The outcomes of relocation from the farms are explored through conversations with the relocated farm dwellers. In an attempt to convey the texture of the emotional geography of dispossession, we document both the tangible and the less tangible losses suffered from the farm dwellers' point of view, as well as their experience with the state bureaucracy. The legal and bureaucratic process leading up to the relocation is then retraced through court documents and other archival evidence. At one level, this case raises questions about the capacity of the post-apartheid South African land reform programme to secure the land rights of marginalised groups such as farm dwellers, despite legislation passed to protect them. At a deeper level, this article is about the conceptual inadequacies of the law. While the law finds it easy to render visible and to protect (saleable) private property, it struggles to fully recognise more complex land relationships. The people whose experience is described in this article felt disempowered, their lives effectively invisible. We problematise the continuing primacy of private property in post-apartheid South Africa and argue that the voices of those with other histories on the land should receive more serious attention.     

日本生态旅游发展的措施、问题与启示

为推动旅游可持续发展,改变生态旅游落后的不利局面,早日实现观光立国战略目标,日本政府通过界定生态旅游活动的内涵和9种生态旅游活动方式,发布生态旅游实施指南,加强地方政府、生态旅游协会以及当地居民紧密合作等举措发展生态旅游。2008年4月1日,日本实施《生态旅游推进法》,这标志着日本生态旅游走上了新的发展道路。2009年是中国生态旅游年,如何推进中国生态旅游的健康发展,日本的一些经验值得借鉴。     

浅谈陕南地区发展生态旅游的战略选择

陕西南部三市拥有较为优越的自然生态资源,但也受到经济水平、行政区划、专业人才、发展矛盾等因素制约。发展生态旅游应在可持续发展理念的指导下,通过加强生态文明教育、以竞合模式为动力促进区域合作、以人才培养为后劲提高区域软实力,从而实现生态文明建设和经济建设的"双赢"。     

低碳经济时代吉林省县域经济生态旅游发展研究

在发展低碳经济的时代背景下,生态旅游作为吉林省县域经济中的优势产业,其发展机遇应运而生。在明确吉林省县(市)四类主体功能区的基础上,吉林省县域生态旅游的发展应充分考虑生态资源、环境承载力,按照主体功能区发展要求采取相应的开发或保护策略,保护好吉林省县(市)生态旅游资源的"健康",实现吉林省县域经济生态旅游的可持续发展。     

秦岭北麓森林公园生态旅游绿色营销策略研究

秦岭北麓是陕西省的生态安全屏障和水资源涵养地。当地森林公园开发过程中,由于行政管理者与开发权利主体错位以及盲目开发旅游项目等,导致生态环境破坏严重。秦岭北麓森林公园应采用绿色营销策略,包括采用绿色文化策略、绿色价格策略以及绿色产品等策略,开发生态旅游项目,形成当地经济效益、生态环境利益和旅游者需求三者的统一,实现当地旅游业的可持续发展。