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Global Ecotourism Policies and Case Studies
Annotation Following a preface by the originator of the term "ecotourism," Kirstges (economics and tourism, U. of Applied Sciences, Wilhelmshaven, Germany) overviews economic, socio-cultural, and ecological issues in sustainable tourism. Lck (recreation and leisure studies, Brock U., Ontario, Canada) discusses whether large-scale ecotourism is an oxymoron, and the future of responsible tourism. Other contributors propose strategies from case studies of national parks and other sites in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. Co-published as , v.5, nos.3&4, 2002. Lacks an index. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Native Tourist
Domestic tourism in developing countries is rapidly outstripping international tourism and could soon involve ten times the numbers. This is an examination of the numbers involved, their profile, behaviour, impacts and the relevant policy responses. The volume looks at the impacts of local mass tourism in various socio-economic and environmental contexts and on diverse social groups. It provides analysis and overviews of seven of the main countries involved in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Capabilities, Power, and Institutions
The essays in Capabilities, Power, and Institutions extend, criticize, and reformulate the capabilities approach to development to better understand the importance of power, especially institutional power.
Un desarrollo distorsionado
La grave crisis económica mexicana ha impulsado a no pocos economistas y sociólogos mexicanos o extranjeros a estudiar su condicionamiento y proponer soluciones. El profesor Barkin sitúa en el centro de su reflexión la contradicción entre los problemas ingentes del campo mexicano y el propósito de integrar a México en el mercado internacional. Su propuesta es aprovechar mucho mejor las enormes reservas productivas del agro mexicano para reiniciar un proceso sostenido de crecimiento económico para la sociedad en su conjunto.
Rethinking Sustainability
DIVProvides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development /div
Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution
In Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution, the Brazilian historian Joana Salém Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicated challenge of overcoming the condition of Latin America’s underdevelopment through a revolutionary process. Based on diverse historical sources, she demonstrates why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba was not entirely changed by the 1959 Revolution. The author narrates in detail the three dimensions of Cuban agrarian transformation during the decisive 1960s — the land tenure system, the crop regime, and the labour regime —, and its social and political actors. She explains the paths and detours of Cuban agrarian policies, contextualized in a labour-intensive economy that needs desperately to increase productivity and, at the same time, promised widely to emancipate workers from labour exploitation. Cuban agrarian and economic contradictions are well-synthetized with the concept of Peripheral Socialism.
Co-operativism and Local Development in Cuba
Co-operativism and Local Development in Cuba consists of a series of pathbreaking essays on the role of co-operativism, and the new co-operatives, in the democratic transformation of Cuba and the government’s plan to update the model in the current context. The contributors are well-known specialists on Cuba, co-operativism and local development. With a shared concern for how an increased focus on co-operativism and local development can contribute to the updating of the Cuban model and the advance of socialism, the contributors to the book have placed an analysis of the issues involved in the broader context of the international co-operative movement and the ongoing capitalist development process in Latin America. Contributors include: Milford Bateman, Al Campbell, Grizel Donéstevez Sánchez, Cliff DuRand, Olga Fernández Ríos, Julio C. Gambina, Camila Piñeiro Harnecker, Sonja Novković, Dayrelis Ojeda Suris, Gabriela Roffinelli, Frederick. S. Royce, Dean Sinković, Henry Veltmeyer, Marcelo Vieta.
The Struggle for Maize
Argues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties.
