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Evaluating the effectiveness of Costa Rica's sustainable tourism policy
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Costa Rica's sustainable tourism policy
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Miller
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Samuel J.
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1988-
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Samuel J. Miller
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Kutting
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Gabriela
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Gabriela Kutting
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Lindgren
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Teri
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Teri Lindgren
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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2014
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2015-01
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2014
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eng
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Costa Rica has long been considered a world leader in sustainable tourism and ecotourism. With global tourism expected to increase rapidly in the coming years, domestic policy is needed to mitigate and regulate the enormous ramifications tourism and travel can have on the nature environment and local communities. This paper seeks to evaluate Costa Rica's sustainable tourism policies and relevant environmental governance systems, questioning the ecological and socio- economic effectiveness of the country's overall sustainable tourism policy using an eco-holistic analysis. An eco-holistic analysis enables a perspective of the current governance systems and policy that goes beyond traditional regime analysis, which typically only focuses on behavioral change. The eco-holistic approach takes into account four elements of evaluation that need to be understood in order to determine effective environmental and sustainable tourism policy. The four elements are, economic structure, time and temporal frameworks, scientific knowledge, and regulatory structure. Using these four elements, this paper exposes the faults in Costa Rica's system and suggests ways in which policy can be reformed that may also be relevant transnationally. The aim of this paper is to expand the awareness of tourism's impact on the natural environment and local communities and display the four key elements that policy-makers must consider while forming effective environmental and sustainable policy. Using Costa Rica as a case study demonstrates that, even in a country considered one of the world’s leaders in sustainable and ecotourism, the policy and programs put in place are inadequate.
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Global Affairs
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (iv, 104 p.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Tourism--Costa Rica
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Ecotourism--Costa Rica
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Sustainable tourism--Costa Rica
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by Samuel J. Miller
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T30V8FGD
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Miller
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Samuel
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2014-12-05 14:14:48
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Samuel Miller
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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