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200 10$aGreen Encounters$b[electronic resource] $eShaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica
210   $aNew York, NY $cBerghahn Books$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (238 p.)
225 1 $aEnvironmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-84545-504-5 
327   $aGreen Encounters; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Encounters in a Tropical Cloud Forest; Part One: Monte Verde's Visibility; 2. Monte Verde's Agricultural Environment; 3. Uneven Terrain: The Practice and Politics of "Saving" Monte Verde; Part Two: Landscapes and Lives: Environmentalism's "Social Work"; 4. Testing the Boundaries of Environmentalism in a Participatory Age; 5. Dismembering San Gerardo: A Cautionary Tale of "Sustainable Development"
327   $a6. Contesting "Community" in a Community Conservation Project: The Fight for the Reserva Santa ElenaPart Three: Monte Verde and the Adolescence of Ecotourism; 7. Quetzals and Other(ing) Spectacles of Tropical Nature; 8. Conclusion: Environmentalism at a Crossroads; Bibliography; Index
330   $a Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would argue, Latin America. It has received substantial attention in literature and media on tropical conservation, sustainable development, and tourism. Yet most of that analysis has uncritically evaluated the Monte Verde phenomenon, using celebratory language and barely scratching the surface of the many-faceted socio-cultural transformations provoked by and accompanying environmentalism. Because of its stature, Monte Verde represen
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