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The Role of Tourism Microentrepreneurship and Agricultural Production in Shaping Stewardship of Working Lands in Guatemala's Highlands and North Carolina's Coastal Plains.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Role of Tourism Microentrepreneurship and Agricultural Production in Shaping Stewardship of Working Lands in Guatemala's Highlands and North Carolina's Coastal Plains./
Author:	Peroff, Deidre Marie.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-08B(E).
Subject:	Natural resource management. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10585421
ISBN:	9781369638936

The Role of Tourism Microentrepreneurship and Agricultural Production in Shaping Stewardship of Working Lands in Guatemala's Highlands and North Carolina's Coastal Plains.
Peroff, Deidre Marie.

The Role of Tourism Microentrepreneurship and Agricultural Production in Shaping Stewardship of Working Lands in Guatemala's Highlands and North Carolina's Coastal Plains. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 227 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2016.

Farmers experience regular constraints to their livelihoods and the conservation of their working lands. Poor commodity prices, rising input costs, environmental pressures exacerbated by climate change, and a lack of government support have driven small-scale farmers to seek alternative sources of income or transition to new ways of life. In an effort to mitigate these challenges, many farmers have diversified their livelihoods by implementing new enterprises such as tourism microentrepreneurship or have joined cooperatives (e.g., to join certification programs or to gain access to markets). While researchers have explored the potential for tourism to improve livelihoods and, in certain contexts, support environmental conservation efforts (e.g., through ecotourism), more research is needed to explore these concepts in the contexts of working lands. Accordingly, this dissertation examines how tourism microentrepreneurship and small-scale agricultural production can interact with involvement in collective processes to shape land stewardship. The conceptual model guiding this study integrates insight from collective action, place attachment, ecoliteracy, and selfdetermination, and this dissertation reports on the exploration of the model utilizing a primarily qualitative approach that included semi-structured, in-depth interviews, photo elicitation, free listing, and analysis of ethnographic field notes. We explored relationships among these constructs in two distinct rural settings: the Tz'utujil Maya indigenous community of San Juan la Laguna, in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, and the coastal plains region in North Carolina, USA.

ISBN: 9781369638936Subjects--Topical Terms:

589570
Natural resource management.

The Role of Tourism Microentrepreneurship and Agricultural Production in Shaping Stewardship of Working Lands in Guatemala's Highlands and North Carolina's Coastal Plains.
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520 $a This study has furthered our understanding of how rural tourism microentrepreneurs involved in agricultural production use these activities to foster land stewardship. In Guatemala, participants' involvement in tourism microentrepreneurship and agricultural production did not directly influence their land stewardship. Instead, these relationships were fostered by cooperatives and San Juan's communitarian approach to development, which both fostered intrinsic motivation to conserve and improved ecoliteracies. In North Carolina, involvement in agritourism microentrepreneurship also did not shape land stewardship directly, but participants used it as a way to mitigate agricultural illiteracy among the public. However, certain types of farmers (i.e., alternative, ethnic minorities) chose to participate in agritourism in order to demonstrate their land stewardship while others (i.e., conventional farmers) were driven more by socio-cultural or economic reasons. Distinct from Guatemala, in North Carolina collective action processes had both positive and negative influences towards land stewardship depending on type of farmer and perceived barriers (e.g., social, geographic) that limited participants' involvement in social circles.
520 $a Finally, we used a mixed methods approach (i.e., sorting and ranking of landscape photos followed by in-depth, semi-structured interviews) to assess if involvement in tourism microentrepreneurship and shade-grown coffee development has affected place attachment among the Tz'utujil Maya in the Guatemalan highlands. Participants expressed place dependence to working landscapes for economic and non-economic reasons (e.g., income from coffee production, firewood from forests), and place identity for sociocultural reasons (e.g., indigenous tradition of farming maize). Participants were also most attached to landscapes that they perceived to be managed using the most environmentally sustainable practices. Overall, this study provides insights from two very distinct rural settings about the ways small-scale agricultural production, tourism microentrepreneurship, collective action, and individual's attachment to their land interact to shape stewardship of working lands.
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