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    Connecting to nature via ecotourism as sustainable development

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    Abstract
    This dissertation presents a case study of ecotourism as sustainable development focused on the potential of the tourist as agent of sustainable development when she returns to the global North. This possibility is framed in terms of a tourist "connecting to nature" and thus becoming an agent of sustainable development. This potential is investigated via the comparison of a "real" rainforest and its "simulation" and this also investigates the role of the biophysical in shaping this connection. After describing an initial period of data collection the author explains why he adopted the framework ...
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    Author(s)
    McLane, Daniel Newell

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    Carolan, Michael

    Date Issued
    2014
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    born digital; doctoral dissertations
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