The Global Political Economy of the Environment and Tourism

This book examines how local and global environment-society relations play out in coastal communities dependent on tourism for economic survival. It analyzes the consequences of social and economic policies on remote areas and makes a case for studying the role of environmental values in global environmental governance.

GABRIELA KÜTTING is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, USA. She has published extensively in the field of global environmental politics including Environment, Society and International Relations, Globalization and Environment, and Environmental Governance, Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World (edited with Ronnie Lipschutz).

Tourism and the social organization of leisure are causing environmental problems for coastal communities dependent on tourism for economic survival. It is the power in the global political economy and the local and global environment-society relations that affect these remote areas. Bringing together sub-disciplines from global political economy to political ecology, this book analyzes the consequences of social and economic policies in global institutions and industrialized countries on particular locales outside the centre. It makes a case for studying the role of environmental values in global environmental governance. With the focus on the underlying structures of the political economy and its social and environmental consequences, K

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