Tourism in Post-revolutionary Nicaragua

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Tourism Along Nicaragua’s Pacific Coast: Context and Dilemmas

   • G. Thomas LaVanchy, Matthew J. Taylor, Nikolai A. Alvarado, Anna G. Sveinsdóttir, Mariel Aguilar-Støen

   Pages 1-14

3. Who Owns the Sea? Conflicts Between Artisanal Fisheries and Tourism

   • G. Thomas LaVanchy, Matthew J. Taylor, Nikolai A. Alvarado, Anna G. Sveinsdóttir, Mariel Aguilar-Støen

   Pages 15-34

4. Tourism as Tragedy? Common Pool Problems with Groundwater

   • G. Thomas LaVanchy, Matthew J. Taylor, Nikolai A. Alvarado, Anna G. Sveinsdóttir, Mariel Aguilar-Støen

   Pages 35-52

5. Imagining the “Emerald Coast”: Insecure Land Tenure, Property Disputes, and Tourism Development

   • G. Thomas LaVanchy, Matthew J. Taylor, Nikolai A. Alvarado, Anna G. Sveinsdóttir, Mariel Aguilar-Støen

   Pages 53-69

6. From Boom to Bust and Back Again? Current Dilemmas Related to Tourism Along Nicaragua’s Pacific Coast

   • G. Thomas LaVanchy, Matthew J. Taylor, Nikolai A. Alvarado, Anna G. Sveinsdóttir, Mariel Aguilar-Støen

   Pages 71-78

This book interrogates the impact of tourism on local lives and environments along the southern Pacific Coast of Nicaragua. Nicaragua has turned to tourism to earn needed foreign exchange and to provide jobs. The unplanned boom, however, has come with costs to local environments. Using an in-depth case study of the community of Gigante and nearby tourism developments, the chapters delve into the impact of recent unregulated booms in tourism on groundwater, household water security, local economies, culture, land ownership, and artisanal fisheries.

• Impact of Tourism
• Water Security
• Tourism Boom
• Local Communities in Nicaragua
• Land Grabs
• Marine Protected Areas
• Surfonomics
• Artisanal Fisheries
• Environmental Geography

• Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA

  G. Thomas LaVanchy

• Department of Geography & the Environment, University of Denver, Denver, USA

  Matthew J. Taylor

• Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

  Nikolai A. Alvarado

• Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

  Anna G. Sveinsdóttir

• Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  Mariel Aguilar-Støen

Prof. Taylor is Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Denver. He is a highly accomplished geographer who has been studying and teaching about international development and conducting research in Central America for many years. His work is rigorous, theoretically significant, and well respected. The other authors also work at the same institute. Prof. Taylor focuses on human-environment relationships in Latin America.

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