Three-Tiered Approach to Ecotourism Research: Meta-Analysis, Statistical Analysis, and Field Study
dc.contributor.advisor | Erhart, Elizabeth M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Stanley, Nathanael B. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Hadder, R. Neill | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Wagner, Nicole | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-19T19:30:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-19T19:30:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-08 | |
dc.description.abstract | Community-based ecotourism has the capacity to achieve all three sustainability factors: economic, social, and environmental. It is through the emergence of sustainability science that this paradigm has begun to manifest on a large scale. Ecotourism development is a manifestation of the growing ecological paradigm that views humans as having a responsibility to live within, rather than dominate, their natural environment. Through a meta-analysis of 30 different community-based ecotourism enterprises located in terrestrial and marine protected areas in biodiversity hotspots around the world, and through a field study located in the cloudforest of the Peruvian Amazon, this thesis demonstrates support for community-based ecotourism as a method for achieving sustainability. Through analyses in this thesis, it is evident that sustainable development can be achieved through community-based ecotourism, and more importantly through the empowerment of local populations in remote areas of floral, faunal, and marine biodiversity. | |
dc.description.department | Anthropology | |
dc.format | Text | |
dc.format.extent | 233 pages | |
dc.format.medium | 1 file (.pdf) | |
dc.identifier.citation | Stanley, N. B. (2014). Three-tiered approach to ecotourism research: Meta-analysis, statistical analysis, and field study (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10877/5270 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | community-based ecotourism | |
dc.subject | sustainability | |
dc.subject | ecotourism | |
dc.subject | anthropology | |
dc.subject | applied anthropology | |
dc.subject | ethnobotony | |
dc.subject | empowerment | |
dc.subject | conservation | |
dc.subject | Peru | |
dc.subject | cloudforest | |
dc.title | Three-Tiered Approach to Ecotourism Research: Meta-Analysis, Statistical Analysis, and Field Study | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
thesis.degree.department | Anthropology | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Anthropology | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas State University | |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts |