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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 J. Rollins-castillo -- 11. Ecotourism And Extraction In Saami Lands: Contradictions And Continuities / Florence Revelin -- 12. Local Sovereignty In The Context Of The Extraction-ecotourism Nexus In Northwest Ecuador: Post-neoliberal Vignettes From Intag-manduriacos Cloud Forests / Linda D'amico -- 13. 'ecotourism, Not Mining, In Palawan!': Territorial Narratives On The Last Frontier (palawan, The Philippines) / Elisabet Dueholm Rasch -- 14. Concluding Engagements At The (ecotourism-extraction) Nexus / Wolfram Dressler. Edited By Bram Büscher And Veronica Davidov. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.