Tourism and Conservation-based Development in the Periphery

Dr. Trace Gale-Detrich is a researcher in the Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP), where she has worked since 2009 and is currently serving as the coordinator for both the Sustainable Tourism Research Line and the Human-Environmental Interactions group (HEI). As well, she is an associate investigator with the Cape Horn International Center (CHIC in Puerto Williams, Chile. Her research interests focus on human/human and human/non-human interactions within the ecosystems of Patagonia, with most of her work addressing  the intersection of conservation and development.  Her areas of focus include human values, perceptions, affect, and experiences, with the goal of understanding how these human dynamics converge with regards to environmental stewardship, transdisciplinary governance, human development/wellbeing, and the integration of protected areas with their bordering lands and communities; especially in contexts of territorial transition,involving social and climate change.Dr. Andrea Ednie is currently Interim Associate Dean of the College of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she has worked as a faculty member since 2014. Her research examines protected area planning and stakeholder values, the role of soundscapes within Healthy Parks Healthy People processes, and wellness benefits associated with connections to nature and protected area experiences within Chilean Patagonia and protected areas within the midwestern U.S. She also studies motivations, sense of place, experiences and behavior choices within the contexts of outdoor recreation management and outdoor exercise. Dr. Ednie is currently Young Scholars Coordinator the Western Society for Kinesiology & Wellness (WSKW).Dr. Keith Bosak currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Society and Conservation at the University of Montana, USA. Bosak's research interests are broadly centered on the intersection of conservation and development, and as such, he often studies nature-based tourism and sustainable tourism in the context of development and protected areas. He has conducted research on ecotourism and environmental justice in India, scientific tourism in Chile, and Geotourism in Montana. Aside from tourism, Dr. Bosak has conducted research on climate change impacts and adaptations among tribal populations in the Himalaya, private protected areas in Chile, and conservation and development initiatives in Montana. Dr. Bosak also conducts workshops on protected area planning and management around the world.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. From local periphery to global center: The evolution of Patagonia through green discourse.- 3. Territorializing Capital: The Political Economy of Nature in Argentine Patagonia.- 4. Patagonia: From Frontiers of Exploration to the Commodification of Nature.- 5. Social representations of territorial conflicts in Chilean Patagonia: Contexts and perspectives on sustainable tourism development.- 6. Social imaginaries of nature and tourism in Argentine Patagonia: stakeholder beliefs and values and their influence on national park creation.- 7. Infrastructure for tourism development in the Aysén Region of peripheral Chilean Patagonia: Trajectories and challenges for ecological and territorial connectivity.- 8. Tourism and Conservation in the Southern reaches of Patgoinia.- 9. Values, conflicts, and discourses and the global 30X30 initiative: A case study of Tompkins Conservation initiatives in Patagonia.- 10. Tensions between tourism, protected area environmental conservation, and indigenous territorial rights in the Pewenche Andes.- 11. Evolving models of tourism planning and use in protected areas of Chilean Patagonia.- 12. Local community governance of protected areas and tourism in Patagonia: An integrative management model for Chile's Cerro Castillo National Park.- 13. A case study of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves along the Chilean-Argentine border in the northern reaches of the Patagonia periphery: Opportunities and challenges for tourism development during the COVID-19 pandemic.- 14. Reimagining our relationship with Nature in northern Chilean Patagonia: Encounters and miss-encounters with the modern world.- 15. Key factors of resilience in Patagonian tourist destinations.- 16. Contributions to resilience and sustainability through time spent in nature.- 17. Methodology to evaluate the potential for a tourism based in science (Scientific Tourism) in destinations with an abundance of protected wildlife areas: The case of Patagonia.- 18. Remediating shifting baseline syndrome in the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve via the Field Environmental Philosophy Cycle.- 19. Conclusion: Research Needs.