Visual Narratives: Exploring the Impacts of Tourism Development in Placencia, Belize
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2020
Keywords
development, environmental change, photovoice
Abstract
Visualizing environmental change is one way people experience ecological degradation and changes in land-use practices. In Placencia, located in Belize, the intensity and scale of development has been increasing without participation by local populations. Through interviews and photovoice, we document the ways residents have encountered changing environments, in order to explore how global and local processes of uneven development intersect. Areas of concern included coastal erosion, dredging, and impacts to marine environments. Participants asserted the need for greater enforcement of environmental regulations and more equitable decision-making practices related to land and resource ownership in the context of rapid development.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12135
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Annals of Anthropological Practice, v. 44, no. 1, p. 104-118.
Scholar Commons Citation
Vitous, Crystal Ann and Zarger, Rebecca, "Visual Narratives: Exploring the Impacts of Tourism Development in Placencia, Belize" (2020). Strong Coasts Collection. 5.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/strong_coasts_pubs/5
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