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标题：Selling Conservation? Scientific Legitimacy and the Commodification of Conservation Tourism
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作者：Jenny A Cousins ; James Evans ; Jon Sadler 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2009
卷号：14
期号：1
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：Conservation tourism is a rapidly growing subsector of ecotourism that engages payingvolunteers as active participants in conservation projects. Once the preserve of charities, the sector nowhosts a proliferation of private companies seeking to make money by selling international conservationwork to tourists as a commodity. The commodification of conservation depends upon balancing the scientificlegitimacy of projects against the need to offer desirable tourist experiences. Drawing on interviews withUK tour operators and their counterparts in South Africa who run the conservation projects, we explorethe transnational geography of commercial conservation tourism, charting how scientific legitimacy isconstructed and negotiated within the industry. Although conservation tourism makes trade-offs betweenscientific rigor and neoliberal market logic, it is a partial and plural process that resists simple categorization.We conclude by considering the difference that commodification makes to conservation science, and viceversa
关键词：commodification; conservation science; conservation tourism; scientific legitimacy; South;Africa; United Kingdom