From Agriculture to Ecotourism: Socio-economic Change, Community Development and Environmental Sustainability in a Costa Rican Village

This research is an ethnographic case study of the emerging ecotourism economies in the agricultural village of San Gerardo de Rivas, Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica. Due to the village’s location as the main entry point to climb the country’s tallest mountain within Chirripó National Park, the majority o...

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Main Author: Howitt, Josephine B.
Other Authors: Sick, Deborah
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23225
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5970