Specialty areas include cultural ecology, conservation and parkland development, indigenous peoples, and landscape studies. Specialty areas include cartography, population, and tourism development. This course will examine the associated positive and negative impacts of tourism development in a Third World setting.
Governments see tourism as a logical alternative to industrialization.
Consequently, tourism in its various forms, ranging from luxury resort tourism to alternative forms, such as ecotourism, may have significant impacts on the environment, economy, and society as a whole within host communities of developing countries. Studies the relationship between population growth, natural resource exploration and conservation of the natural environment, with Ecuador as a case study. Emphasis is on local and global impacts of human activities, conservation techniques and cultural implications of development. Cross-listed with GSC 524. Studies the relationship between population growth, natural resource exploration and conservation of the natural environment, with Ecuador as a case study.