Reframing Sustainable Tourism by Stephen F. McCool & Keith Bosak

Author:Stephen F. McCool & Keith Bosak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

8.3 The Research Context

The 1996 Forestry Act of Jamaica (Forestry Department 1996) was introduced in an effort to harness and promote the tenets of sustainable development that were laid out in Agenda 21, a product of the 1991 Rio Earth Summit. While Jamaica had to face a stark reality concerning deforestation stemming from the colonial era (Evelyn and Camirand 2003; Wimbush 1935), which ravished the countries natural resources, it also acknowledged that the country was struggling to maintain its place in the global economy, particularly after the collapse of the sugar industry in the 1980s (Polanyi-Levitt 1991). Therefore, dedicating funding toward the ends of conservation was more of a luxury than a necessity (Lundy 1999). Furthermore, with the recent collapse of the bauxite industry, also an environmentally and socially destructive practice, there has been increasing motivation on the part of the Jamaican government to work with allying agencies intent on promoting sustainable industries that may continue to circulate Jamaica’s natural resources in the global economy. As a result, the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture (FDJ) embraced the language of sustainable development in an effort to sustain the countries natural resources in economically and environmentally sustainable ways. This, as proposed in the 1996 Forestry Act, led to the inclusion of the Jamaican populace in the conservation discourse, leading to the establishment of the Cockpit Country Local Forestry Management Committees (CCLFMCs).

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