ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book illustrates how the promotion of sustainable tourism has in many ways politically and economically marginalized indigenous Rapa Nui thus reproducing ongoing colonial relations of power. It describes tourism as more than a purely economic analysis of the normal tourism business model of adding value and extracting revenue. It also examines the production of protection within the context of the conservation and control thesis, whereby control of resources and landscapes has been wrested from local producers or producer groups through the implementation of efforts to preserve sustainability, community or nature. The intellectual traditions informing in this book are wide-ranging, spanning ecocentric and anthropocentric analytic positions, here harnessed together by a combined ecological/political understanding of the natural world. The book explains about Wearing and Wearing argue that the rights of nature is best effected through an environmental citizenship of all living beings.
