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The Contested Landscapes of World Heritage on a Tourist Island: the case of Garajonay National Park,La Gomera
Authors:Raoul V. Bianchi
Affiliation:Senior Lecturer at the University of Northumbria, Department of the Built Environment , Ellison Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
Abstract:This paper considers the World Heritage Site of Garajonay National Park on the island of La Gomera (Canary Islands). It is based on a research project carried out during 1999-2000 that explored the circumstances surrounding its declaration as a National Park and inclusion into the World Heritage List, in conjunction with the consequences for local communities which ensued. The proximity of Garajonay National Park to a large concentration of mass coastal tourism constitutes a further source of potential conflict which may have a wider relevance to other sites of a similar and indeed diverse nature. This paper, therefore, examines the configurations of space and social relations occasioned by the processes of social change, conservation and tourism development in and adjacent to this protected forest. In doing so it elucidates the manner in which these processes are locally mediated in and through contested values over the meaning and purpose of nature conservation in this 'world heritage space'. It argues that a sense of the forest as a place of cultural belonging has been marginalised in favour of its intrinsic ecological value.
Keywords:Wilderness  Protected Forest  World Heritage  Tourism  Local Knowledge  Nature Conservation  Cultural Landscape
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