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Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Development or Disaster?

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Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Development or Disaster?

edited by C. Michael Hall and Stephen Boyd, Channel View Publications, Toronto, 2005, x + 281 pp., paper $US44.95 (ISBN 1845410009)

Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Development or Disaster? is an eclectic collection of case studies, divided into four parts. The introductory section focuses on the relative importance of four types of capital: human-made capital such as transport and energy infrastructure, housing, and goods production; natural capital, including wilderness, natural resources, national parks, and endangered species; human capital such as professional skills, training, individual knowledge, and education; and social capital exemplified in the ability to coordinate one's own actions, and choices of common goals (see Ostrom [1990] and Fukuyama [1995]). The common characteristics of peripheral areas are identified: the lack...