ABSTRACT

Introduction ............................................................................................................297 Alternative Futures Models in Land Use Planning ................................................ 298 Case Study: Coiba, Panama ................................................................................... 298 Public Policy in Environmental Planning ..............................................................303 Acknowledgment ...................................................................................................303 References ..............................................................................................................304

traditional tourism development (hotels, commercialism, restaurants, social inequities, crime, etc.) that are also attracted to these special areas for the very same reasons (see chapter 14, for example, for a discussion about the oating marsh villages in Lake Titicaca). It will become essential, therefore, to nd ways to achieve some sort of balance between tourism development and environmental conservation.