Jeremy Boissevain is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Tom Selwyn is Professor of Anthropology at London Metropolitan University.

• Series Foreword, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction, 2 Privatising the Mediterranean Coastline, 3 Littoral Fishermen, Aquaculture, and Tourism in the Canary Islands: Attitudes and Economic Strategies, 4 Between the Sea and the Land: Exploring the Social Organisation of Tourism Development in a Gran Canaria Fishing Village, 5 Tourism, Kinship, and Social Change in Sennen Cove, Cornwall, 6 Evaluating Contrasting Approaches to Marine Ecotourism: ‘Dive Tourism’ and ‘Research Tourism’ in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia, 7 Fishermen and the Creation of Marine Parks: Northern Sporades (Greece), Northern Cap de Creus (Catalonia), and the Iroise Sea (France), 8 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, 9 Marine and Coastal Issues in Local Environmental Conflict: Greece, Spain, and Portugal, 10 Hotels, Tuna Pens, and Civil Society: Contesting the Foreshore in Malta, 11 All Pervading Island Tourism: The Case of Texel, The Netherlands, 12 Izola’s Fishermen between Yacht Clubs, Beaches, and State Borders: Connections between Fishing and Tourism, Index, List of Contributors