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Contesting the foreshore : tourism, society and politics on the coast / edited by Jeremy Boissevain and Tom Selwyn.

Other author/creatorBoissevain, Jeremy.
Other author/creatorSelwyn, Tom.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAmsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2004. [Great Britain]
Description320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content Publisher description
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Series MARE publication series ; no. 2
MARE publication series no. 2. ^A696088
Contents Introduction / Tom Selwyn and Jeremy Boissevain -- Privatsing the Mediterranean coastline / Tom Selwyn -- Littoral fisherman, aquaculture, and tourism in the Canary Islands: attitudes and economic strategies / José J. Pascual -- Between the sea and the land: exploring the social organisation of tourism development in a Gran Canaria fishing village / Raoul V. Bianchi and Agustín Santana Talavera -- Tourism, kinship, and social change in Sennen Cove, Cornwall / Michael John Ireland -- Evaluating contrasting approaches to marine ecotourism: 'dive tourism' and 'research tourism' in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia / Julian Clifton -- Fishermen and the creation of marine parks: Northern Sporades (Greece), Northern Cap de Creus (Catalonia) and the Iroise Sea (France) / Katia Frangoudes and Frédérique Alban -- An assessment of the potential interest of fishermen to engage in boat-chartering in the context of a marine park: the case of the Iroise Sea, Western Brittany, France / Frédérique Alban and Jean Boncoeur -- Marine and coastal issues in local environmental conflict: Greece, Spain and Portugal / Maria Kousis -- Hotels, tuna pens, and civil society: contesting the foreshore in Malta / Jeremy Boissevain -- All pervading island tourism: the case of Texel, the Netherlands / René van der Duim and Jaap Lendkeek -- Izola's fishermen between yacht clubs, beaches, and state borders: connections between fishing and tourism / Natas̆a Rogelja.
General note"This collection of essays has emerged from some of the presentations made during the workshop on "Aquatourism and multiple-use conflicts" held during the "People and the Sea" Conference marking the inauguration of the Centre for Maritime Research (MARE), in Amsterdam, September 2001."
LCCN 2005404165
ISBN9053566945 (pbk.)

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