Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2009
This looks like a very interesting conference that explores sustainability from a “four pillars” approach. The conference will be held at the University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador 5 to 7 January. Those interested in presenting at this conference, note that the deadline for submission is July 9, 2009. I would love to go to this, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2009
I came across this interesting post today. Anthropologist Max Forte reflects on Collaborative Anthropology:
Thus far, whenever I have spoken of “collaborative” work between researchers and their non-academic partners (because one can also speak of collaboration between researchers themselves) I have tended to present an argument that was only “positive,” and by that I mean this [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2009
This post features a newspaper article on issues of ecotourism and sustainability in Cambodia. It introduces the concept of CBET, Commmunity Based Ecotourism. Following up, I discovered this organization, Cambodia Community-Based Ecotourism Network:
“The Cambodia Community-Based Ecotourism Network (CCBEN) is the only network of organizations which are involved in community-based ecotourism. CCBEN aims to promote and support [...]
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