The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a scale assessing residents' attitudes
toward sustainable tourism (SUS-TAS). Following the pretesting phase, a 51-item scale of …

As an attempt of a monitoring system development for communities, the purpose of this study
is twofold:(1) to develop indicators of sustainable tourism that will establish a basis for …

This article treats Pisagua prison in northern Chile, which intermittently served as a
concentration camp for leftists and queer “sexual dissidents” throughout the twentieth …

Tourism has long been seen as a positive phenomenon that meets the needs of visitors,
provides income, creates jobs, raises the living standards of local people, and develops …

Abstract Intense El Niño events bring fleeting bounty to certain export fisheries along the
Pacific South American coast in the form of scallop abundance. This article explores human …

The primary inspiration to undertake this study was the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway
connecting Tibet with the rest of China. Half way through this study, on March 14th 2008, a …

Recent studies have focused on the study of social networks among local resource users,
but few have attempted to study co-management networks. The objective of the research …

Background Black groupers (Mycteroperca bonaci), of the family Serranidae, are an
important part of reef ecosystems (Parrish 1987). They are apex predators, and they play a …

252 Diana Luque et al. framework, including participatory action research and participant
observation from 2005 to 2009, which was accompanied by two quantitative instruments: a …