This book addresses the evolution of conservation-based territorial development in Argentina and Chile

Examines approaches, and challenges associated with contemporary conservation-based development

Offers strategies for building resilience and sustainability, contextualized in Patagonia

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1. Introduction.- 2. From local periphery to global center: The evolution of Patagonia through green discourse.- 3. Territorializing Capital: The Political Economy of Nature in Argentine Patagonia.- 4. Patagonia: From Frontiers of Exploration to the Commodification of Nature.- 5. Social representations of territorial conflicts in Chilean Patagonia: Contexts and perspectives on sustainable tourism development.- 6. Social imaginaries of nature and tourism in Argentine Patagonia: stakeholder beliefs and values and their influence on national park creation.- 7. Infrastructure for tourism development in the Aysén Region of peripheral Chilean Patagonia: Trajectories and challenges for ecological and territorial connectivity.- 8. Tourism and Conservation in the Southern reaches of Patgoinia.- 9. Values, conflicts, and discourses and the global 30X30 initiative: A case study of Tompkins Conservation initiatives in Patagonia.- 10. Tensions between tourism, protected area environmental conservation, and indigenous territorial rights in the Pewenche Andes.- 11. Evolving models of tourism planning and use in protected areas of Chilean Patagonia.- 12. Local community governance of protected areas and tourism in Patagonia: An integrative management model for Chile's Cerro Castillo National Park.- 13. A case study of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves along the Chilean-Argentine border in the northern reaches of the Patagonia periphery: Opportunities and challenges for tourism development during the COVID-19 pandemic.- 14. Reimagining our relationship with Nature in northern Chilean Patagonia: Encounters and miss-encounters with the modern world.- 15. Key factors of resilience in Patagonian tourist destinations.- 16. Contributions to resilience and sustainability through time spent in nature.- 17. Methodology to evaluate the potential for a tourism based in science (Scientific Tourism) in destinations with an abundance of protected wildlife areas: The case of Patagonia.- 18. Remediating shifting baseline syndrome in the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve via the Field Environmental Philosophy Cycle.- 19. Conclusion: Research Needs.