ES295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Adventure Travel, Ecotourism
17 Nov 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Resources are not, they become; they are not static but expand & contrast in response to human action. 7 different types of undeveloped resources: geographic location, weather and climate, topography, surface materials, water, vegetation, fauna. Just as resources are constructer, so is a nature more broadly. We construct resources for our use (material production of nature) and through our ideas (ideational construction of nature) social construction of nature: wilderness. Wilderness is traditionally viewed as untamed nature, separate from people. Western view of wilderness has informed modern conservation and development. Wilderness should be viewed as socially constructed. A form of tourism that encompasses those forms of tourism (e. g. mass tourism, adventure tourism, low-impact tourism, ecotourism) which uses natural resources in a wild or undeveloped form". Globally, values appear to be changing with increasing non- consumptive wildlife tourism.
