Ecotourism and natural resource extraction may be seen as contradictory pursuits, yet in reality they often take place side by side, sometimes even supported by the same institutions. This book offers theoretical reflections on why these two phenomena are systematically decoupled, and epistemologically and analytically re-links them through ethnographic case studies drawing on research from around the world.

Foreword Rosaleen Duffy 1. Introduction: The ecotourism-extraction nexus Veronica Davidov and Bram Büscher 2. Conceptualising Lived Experiences within the Political Economy of the Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus Bram Büscher and Veronica Davidov 3. Gems of Ankarana: The commodification and generification of Madagascar's natural wonders Andrew Walsh 4. Horticulture in Harmony with Wildlife: The awkward marriage of ecotourism and industrial floriculture in Naivasha, Kenya Megan Styles 5. Between the Cattle and the Deep Blue Sea: The Janus face of the ecotourism-extraction nexus in Costa Rica Robert Fletcher 6. Mother Nature's Best Kept Secret? Exploring the discursive terrain and lived experience of the ecotourism/extraction nexus in southern Belize James Stinson 7. Mining the Forest: Epical and novelesque boundaries along the Upper Bulolo River, Papua New Guinea Jamon Alex Halvaksz, II 8. Ecological Tourism and Elite Minerals in Karelia: The Veps' experience with extraction, commodification and circulation of natural resources Veronica Davidov 9. Crude Desires and 'Green' Initiatives: Indigenous development and oil extraction in Amazonian Ecuador Timothy J. Smith 10. 'Greening' Dispossession: Mining nature through ecotourism in the Dominican Southwest Luisa Rollins 11. Ecotourism and Extraction in Saami Lands: Contradictions and continuities Florence Revelin 12. Questions About Local Sovereignty in the Context of the Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus in Northwest Ecuador: Post-neoliberal vignettes from Intag-Manduriaco's cloud forests Linda D'Amico 13. 'Ecotourism, not mining, in Palawan!': Territorial narratives on the last frontier (Palawan, the Philippines) Elisabet Rasch 14. Conclusion Wolfram Dressler