Last Autumn I was wondering how or if my interest in anti-war protesting is related to my interest in why environmental activists become, well, active. Somewhere along this trail of inquiry I ran into the theory of Peace Parks.
Wikipedia states that peace parks create friendly borders between countries and encourage natural animal migration patterns, […]
Filed under: parks, eco-tourism, social justice, environmental planning on June 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
I noticed a few visitors to the site are in the Philippines so I investigated Philippine eco-tourism websites. There are an abundance of sites offering caving trips, snorkeling, surfing, and wildlife watching. Apparently the Philippine government launched a 20 year eco-tourism plan in 1991 to boost the economy. But, just looking through the first page […]
Filed under: philippines, eco-tourism on June 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
In a world where an increasing number of people are able to spend money and time on things other than basic needs, the importance of understanding leisure- what people want to do voluntarily and outside of obligation- is increasingly important. How the world’s future inhabitants will spend their money, their time, […]
Filed under: leisure on June 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
The readings below will be/have been read in order to understand eco-tourism’s past, present and future.
Jackson, E.L. & Burton, T.L. (Eds.) (1999). Leisure Studies: Prospects for the 21st Century. State College, PA: Venture Publishing, Inc.
A major volume of collected and commissioned articles for a leisure studies textbook covering progress and future questions for leisure studies […]
Filed under: leisure on June 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
Eco-tourism can have a negative or positive influence on a local natural landscape or economy; this is not a new idea.
But, a critical analysis of which and how individuals are affected in processes of eco-tourism is needed and relatively fresh in leisure studies. Eco-tourism studies, and those individuals studied, can benefit from the inclusion […]
Filed under: eco-tourism, critical theory, goals on June 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
I want to make a claim that an outdoor leisure environment, whether it takes the form of a public park, a private beach, or a green backyard, is correlated with a greater degree of understanding and empathy for our natural landscape. Marcelo Bonta writes of his concern about children of minority or heterogeneous race […]
Filed under: future, fostering identity, natural landscape on June 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
UNDERGROUND
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference November 6-7, 2008
Department of Comparative Literature
Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Call for Papers
I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be
kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for
forty years and never open […]
Filed under: caves, goals on June 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
A new Google Earth feature (download here) visually represents the rates of deforestation across the world.
Other new features of Google Earth Outreach include layers representing dams to endangered species to the South China Sea project. The Huffington Post asks what other layer could be next. I’m interested to see what global layers exist for public […]
Filed under: environmental planning on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Read this article from the us forest service on our future leisure environments.
photo credit: Svadilfari
This article predicts “the probabilities of future events associated with natural-resource management, wildland-recreation management, environmental pollution, population-workforce-leisure, and urban environments. Though some of the predictions projected to the year 2050 may sound fantastic now, the authors think that some of […]
Filed under: future, natural landscape, environmental planning on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
Eventually this will be either reality or the next Lost. Hopefully we won’t have a fleet of spaceships with hierarchies of civilian classes experiencing food and water shortages and poor educational opportunities.
photo credit:chefrandenchefranden
Filed under: future, observations and opinions, goals on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
