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| Title: | Sustainability and balanced ecotourism management: Lessons from the whale watching in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico |
| Authors: | Chong, Stephanie |
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| Keywords: | ecotourism
integrated management |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines ecotourism from an ecological, economic, and social perspective
and argues that integrated management provides more robust solutions that have a
greater overall benefit for the local community, such as at Laguna San Ignacio(LSI) in
the El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Integrated solutions
recognize that there is a correlation between social and environmental injustice and the
market, as well as the need to implement solutions that will address them at the same
time. In many cases, the theory of ecotourism as sustainable development does not
translate as smoothly into “on the ground” results. An indicator-based conceptual
framework was therefore used to assess and identify some of the strengths and
weaknesses of the existing initiatives at Laguna San Ignacio, as well as some
recommendations for improvement. Future research should focus on developing new
strategies for ecotourism and sustainability in the community as well as how they can be
applied in other similar situations to achieve sustainable development. |
| Description: | ENSC 501: Independent Study Project; April 2008 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6181 |
| Appears in Collections: | Undergraduate Theses
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