Three-Tiered Approach to Ecotourism Research: Meta-Analysis, Statistical Analysis, and Field Study

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dc.contributor.advisorErhart, Elizabeth M.
dc.contributor.authorStanley, Nathanael B.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHadder, R. Neill
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWagner, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-19T19:30:24Z
dc.date.available2014-08-19T19:30:24Z
dc.date.issued2014-08
dc.description.abstractCommunity-based ecotourism has the capacity to achieve all three sustainability factors: economic, social, and environmental. It is through the emergence of sustainability science that this paradigm has begun to manifest on a large scale. Ecotourism development is a manifestation of the growing ecological paradigm that views humans as having a responsibility to live within, rather than dominate, their natural environment. Through a meta-analysis of 30 different community-based ecotourism enterprises located in terrestrial and marine protected areas in biodiversity hotspots around the world, and through a field study located in the cloudforest of the Peruvian Amazon, this thesis demonstrates support for community-based ecotourism as a method for achieving sustainability. Through analyses in this thesis, it is evident that sustainable development can be achieved through community-based ecotourism, and more importantly through the empowerment of local populations in remote areas of floral, faunal, and marine biodiversity.
dc.description.departmentAnthropology
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent233 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationStanley, N. B. (2014). <i>Three-tiered approach to ecotourism research: Meta-analysis, statistical analysis, and field study</i> (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/5270
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectCommunity-based ecotourism
dc.subjectSustainability
dc.subjectEcotourism
dc.subjectAnthropology
dc.subjectApplied anthropology
dc.subjectEthnobotony
dc.subjectEmpowerment
dc.subjectConservation
dc.subjectPeru
dc.subjectCloudforest
dc.subject.lcshEcotourism--Environmental aspectsen_US
dc.subject.lcshEcotourism--Social aspectsen_US
dc.subject.lcshEcotourism--Economic aspectsen_US
dc.subject.lcshSustainabilityen_US
dc.titleThree-Tiered Approach to Ecotourism Research: Meta-Analysis, Statistical Analysis, and Field Study
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropology
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropology
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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