The Global Political Economy of the Environment and Tourism

204 Pages·2010·0.751 MB·English

by  Gabriela Kütting

The Global Political Economy of the Environment and
Tourism
Also by Gabriela Kütting
ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE (co-edited with Ronnie Lipschutz)
Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World
GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT
Greening Global Political Economy
CONVENTIONS, TREATIES AND OTHER RESPONSES TO GLOBAL ISSUES in
UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life Support System(esdited)
ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The Global Political
Economy of the
Environment and Tourism
Gabriela Kütting
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA
© Gabriela Kütting 2010
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Contents
Acknowledgments viii
List of Abbreviations ix
Part I 1
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Global Political Economy 3
of Tourism and Local Environment-Society
Relations
Chapter 2 Environment, Tourism and Levels of Governance 16
Chapter 3 Environment and Global Political Economy 37
Chapter 4 Consumption and Equity 62
Part II Case Studies 87
Chapter 5 Zakynthos 89
Chapter 6 Thassos 114
Chapter 7 Cavo Sidero in Crete 140
Chapter 8 Conclusion 165
Bibliography 179
Index 189
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Acknowledgments
I am grateful to the many people who helped bring this manuscript
to fruition. Many colleagues and students discussed the themes of
the book with me including Phil Cerny, Frank Fischer, Maurie Cohen,
Wendy Godek at Rutgers/NJIT, faculty and students at Kassel, Oxford
Brookes and Crete universities where I presented part of the research,
Tim Forsyth, Ronnie Lipschutz, Dimitris Stevis, Maria Kousis, Valerie
Assetto, Pam Shaw, Helen Schwenken, Christoph Scherrer. Panos Yanna-
kogeorgos and Wendy Godek provided invaluable research assistance.
Rutgers University and Kassel University provided grants to conduct the
field studies while Tim Forsyth at DESTIN at the London School of
Economics (LSE) invited me as Academic Visitor for the spring term
2008, giving me access to the LSE library. I would also like to thank the
anonymous reviewers of the book manuscript for their useful comments.
In Greece, I am indebted to the many civil servants, civil society rep-
resentatives, lawyers and local business owners who were so generous
with their time and information. For privacy reasons I cannot list them
by name but you know who you are. More than anything I owe grati-
tude to Lily Venizelos whose energy, commitment and dedication leave
me in awe and who has been enormously helpful and supportive. Oliver
Rackham, Kostas Andriotis, Mark Mazower, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos,
Karin Berthold and Nikos Perakis helped with references, pieces of
information and sources.
But most of all I need to thank my son Nicolas for being such a
patient “research assistant” and traveler. He spent the first 14 months
of his life on the road with me in four countries, adapted easily from
location to location and opened many hearts and doors in Greece with
his enthusiasm for life. He has come away from it all with a passion for
British children’s literature, the sea, turtles, Greek music and cheese pie.
This book is dedicated to him and my father who spent half his life in
Greece and inspired in me my interest in the environment as well as
Greece. During the writing of this book my father died and my son was
born within three weeks of each other and both have shaped this book
in many ways.
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List of Abbreviations
CAMP Coastal Area Management Programme
DG Directorate General
EC European Community
EIA environmental impact assessment
ERDF European Regional Development Fund
EU European Union
FFF Forum for the Future
FT Financial Times
GDP/GNP Gross Domestic Product/Gross National Product
GEP Global Environmental Politics
GG Global Governance
GPE Global Political Economy
IR International Relations
ISA Internal Security Act
LDCs Less Developed Countries
LSE London School of Economics
Medpol marine pollution assessment and control component of
MAP
MFTA Mediterranean Free Trade Area
MAP Mediterranean Action Plan
NGO Non-governmental organization
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development
PASOK Greek Socialist party
TUI Touristik Union International
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
WWF World Wildlife Fund
WTO World Trade Organization
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