Cover -- The Ecotourism- Extraction Nexus -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: the ecotourism- extraction nexus -- 2 Conceptualizing lived experiences within the political economy of the ecotourism- extraction nexus -- 3 Gems of Ankarana: the commodification and generification of Madagascar's natural wonders -- 4 'Horticulture in harmony with wildlife': the awkward marriage of ecotourism and industrial floriculture in Naivasha Kenya -- 5 Between the cattle and the deep blue sea: the Janus face of the ecotourism- extraction nexus in Costa Rica -- 6 Mother Nature's Best Kept Secret? Exploring the discursive terrain and lived experience of the ecotourism-extraction nexus in Southern Belize -- 7 Mining the forest: epical and novelesque boundaries along the Upper Bulolo River, Papua New Guinea -- 8 Ecological tourism and elite minerals in Karelia: the Veps' experience with extraction, commodification, and circulation of natural resources -- 9 Crude desires and 'green' initiatives: indigenous development and oil extraction in Amazonian Ecuador -- 10 'Greening' dispossession: mining nature through ecotourism in the Dominican Southwest -- 11 Ecotourism and extraction in Saami lands: contradictions and continuities -- 12 Local sovereignty in the context of the extraction-ecotourism nexus in Northwest Ecuador: post- neoliberal vignettes from Intag-Manduriacos cloud forests -- 13 'Ecotourism, not mining, in Palawan!' Territorial narratives on the last frontier (Palawan, the Philippines) -- 14 Concluding engagements at the (ecotourism-extraction) nexus -- Index.