Contesting the Foreshore
Tourism, Society and Politics on the Coast
Published on 24. September 2004
320 pages
978-90-485-0534-0 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of essays studying the rapid changes in coastal settlements due to the conflicting interests of traditional and new stakeholders
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
20 halftones
20 halftones
File size
1,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-90-485-0534-0 (9789048505340)
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09/2004
Pallas Publications
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Persons
Jeremy Boissevain is professor emeritus of social anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Tom Selwyn is professor of anthropology at London Metropolitan University.
Content
Table of Contents - 8 Series Foreword - 6 Acknowledgments - 10 1 Introduction - 12 2 Privatising the Mediterranean Coastline - 36 3 Littoral Fishermen, Aquaculture, and Tourism in theCanary Islands: Attitudes and Economic Strategies - 62 4 Between the Sea and the Land: Exploring the Social Organisation of Tourism Development in a Gran Canaria Fishing Village - 84 5 Tourism, Kinship, and Social Change in Sennen Cove, Cornwall - 110 6 Evaluating Contrasting Approaches to Marine Ecotourism: 'Dive Tourism' and 'Research Tourism' in the WakatobiMarine National Park, Indonesia - 152 7 Fishermen and the Creation of Marine Parks: Northern Sporades (Greece), Northern Cap de Creus (Catalonia), and the Iroise Sea (France) - 170 8 An Assessment of the Potential Interest of Fishermen to Engage in Boat-Chartering in the Context of a Marine Park: The Case of the Iroise Sea, Western Brittany, France - 186 9 Marine and Coastal Issues in Local Environmental Conflict: Greece, Spain, and Portugal - 206 10 Hotels, Tuna Pens, and Civil Society: Contesting the Foreshore in Malta - 234 11 All Pervading Island Tourism:The Case of Texel, The Netherlands - 262 12 Izola's Fishermen between Yacht Clubs, Beaches, and State Borders: Connections between Fishing and Tourism - 282 Index - 310 List of Contributors - 318
