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Social Dimensions of 'Nature at Risk' in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

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dc.contributor.author Lu, Flora
dc.contributor.author Valdivia, Gabriela
dc.contributor.author Wolford, Wendy
dc.date.accessioned 2013-06-19T18:55:44Z
dc.date.available 2013-06-19T18:55:44Z
dc.date.issued 2013 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8847
dc.description.abstract "The Galápagos National Park is an iconic site of environmental conservation; hundreds of thousands of tourists, students, and scientists have visited the islands since the national park was founded in 1959. What a casual visitor to the region might fail to see, however, is the history of conflict that has accompanied the formation and maintenance of the park. In 2007, the tension on the Galápagos Islands became so great that UNESCO put it on their list of World Natural Heritage Sites 'In Danger', arguing that the Galápagos Islands residents had to resolve a set of problems before the effects of increasing population numbers and poor management overran the unique natural environment. We draw on the literature within political ecology and argue that while there was broad agreement on the 'facts' of the crisis, people on the islands interpreted those facts very differently; individual assumptions, beliefs, and experiences imbued the facts with different and often confrontational meanings that, in turn, shaped the possibility of managing the crisis. Based on in-depth qualitative research conducted between 2007 and 2011, we illustrate the differences in the way people 'see'-or understand and experience-the problems on the islands, and show how these differences continue to complicate the search for resolution." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject conservation en_US
dc.title Social Dimensions of 'Nature at Risk' in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region South America en_US
dc.coverage.country Ecuador en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Conservation and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 11 en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages 83-95 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 1 en_US


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