The amenity migrants: seeking and sustaining mountains and their cultures

340 Pages·2006·0.61 MB·English

by  Moss

The Amenity Migrants
Seeking and Sustaining Mountains and their Cultures
In these times people seek the road through the clouds;
But the cloud road is obscure, without a trace.
The mountains are high, with many steep and narrow passes;
The streams are broad, with little brightness of day.
Emerald green cliffs to the front, and to the back;
White clouds to the west, and to the east.
If you want to find the cloud road,
It is here in the sky.
Han Shan (Cold Mountain)
Tang Dynasty, China
The Amenity Migrants
Seeking and Sustaining Mountains and their Cultures
Edited by
Laurence A.G. Moss
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The amenity migrants : seeking & sustaining mountains and their cultures / edited by
Laurence A.G. Moss.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-85199-084-2 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-85199-084-3 (alk. paper)
1. Amenity migration. 2. Amenity migration—Environmental aspects. 3. Recreation
areas—Environmental aspects. 4. Mountains. 5. Mountain ecology. 6. Human ecology.
7. Environmental degradation. I. Moss, Laurence A. G. II. Title.
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Contents
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
PART I. THE AMENITY MIGRANTS 1
Chapter 1. The Amenity Migrants: Ecological Challenge to Contemporary 3
Shangri-La
Laurence A.G. Moss
Chapter 2. The Spiritual Dimension of Moving to the Mountains 26
Harvey Locke
Chapter 3. Guiding Back from the Precipice: Leveraging the Power 34
of Recreational Users to Protect Mountain Environments
Linda McMillan
PART II. AMENITY MIGRANTS IN THE AMERICAS 53
Chapter 4. Geographic Perspective on Amenity Migration across 55
the USA: National-, Regional- and Local-scale Analysis
Peter B. Nelson
Chapter 5. Santa Fe, a Fading Dream: 1986 Profile and 2005 Postscript 73
Romella S. Glorioso and Laurence A.G. Moss
Chapter 6. ‘Too Much Love?’: the Environmental and Community Impacts 94
of Amenity Migrants on Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Margie Lynch
Chapter 7. Gateway to Glacier: Will Amenity Migrants in North-western 108
Montana Lead the Way for Amenity Conservation?
Steve Thompson
Chapter 8. Alberta’s Amenities Rush 120
Bart Robinson and Carole Stark
Chapter 9. Finding a Pad in Paradise: Amenity Migration Effects on 135
Whistler, British Columbia
Sean R. Moore, Peter W. Williams and Alison Gill
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Chapter 10. Cultural Survival and Environmental Degradation in the 148
Mountains of the Secwepemc
Janice R. Billy
Chapter 11. Planning for Amenity Migration in Communities of the British 163
Columbia Hinterland
Raymond Chipeniuk
Chapter 12. A Brief History of Amenity Migration in the Adirondack 175
Mountains
Wayne R. Glass
Chapter 13. Cultural and Environmental Amenities in Peri-urban Change: 187
the Case of San Antonio de Escazú, Costa Rica
Paulina Chaverri P.
Chapter 14. Amenity Migration in the Patagonian Mountain Community 200
of San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén, Argentina
Adriana Otero, Lía Nakayama, Susana Marioni, Elisa Gallego, Alicia Lonac,
Andrés Dimitriu, Rodrigo González and Claudia Hosid
PART III. AMENITY MIGRANTS IN EUROPE 213
Chapter 15. The Specifics of Amenity Migration in the European Alps 215
Manfred Perlik
Chapter 16. Second Homes, Work Commuting and Amenity Migrants in 232
Norway’s Mountain Areas
Thor Flognfeldt Jr
Chapter 17. Amenity Migration and Tourism Development in the Tärna 245
Mountains, Sweden
Dieter K. Müller
PART IV. AMENITY MIGRANTS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 259
Chapter 18. A Bioregion in Jeopardy: the Strategic Challenge of Amenity 261
Migration in Baguio, The Philippines
Romella S. Glorioso
Chapter 19. Green Change: Inland Amenity Migration in Australia 278
Ralf Buckley, Nikola Sander, Claudia Ollenburg and Jan Warnken
Chapter 20. Amenity Migration in the South Island of New Zealand: 295
Contestation for Land and Landscape in Central Otago
C. Michael Hall
PART V: THE FUTURE 307
Chapter 21. Next Steps and the Longer View 309
Laurence A.G. Moss
Index 321
Contributors
Janice R. Billy, Skwelkwekwelt Protection Centre, PO BOX 837, Chase, B.C. Canada, V0E 1M0
Ralf Buckley, International Centre for Ecotourism Research, Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport, Qld
4215, Australia
Paulina Chaverri P.,P.O.Box 419-1250, Escazu, Costa Rica
Raymond Chipeniuk, School of Environmental Planning, University of Northern British Columbia, 3333
University Way, Prince George, B.C., Canada, V2N 4Z9
Andrés Dimitriu, Planning & Management Research Group, Faculty of Tourism, Universidad Nacional del
Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300 Neuquén, Argentina
Thor Flognfeldt Jr., Department of Social Science (Tourism and Travel), Lillehammer University College,
Gudrbrandsdalsvn 350, N-2626 Lillehammer, Norway
Elisa Gallego, Planning & Management Research Group, Faculty of Tourism, Universidad Nacional del
Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300 Neuquén, Argentina
Alison Gill, Centre for Tourism Policy and Research, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby,
B.C., Canada, V5A 1S6
Wayne R. Glass, Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Tourism, PO BOX 749, Saranac Lake, New York,
12983, USA
Romella S. Glorioso, International Amenity Migration Centre, PMB 422, Santa Fe, NM, 87505, USA
Rodrigo González, Planning & Management Research Group, Faculty of Tourism, Universidad Nacional del
Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300 Neuquén, Argentina
C. Michael Hall, Department of Tourism, University of Otago, Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin New Zealandand
Department of Social and Economic Geography, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Claudia Hosid, Planning & Management Research Group, Faculty of Tourism, Universidad Nacional del
Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300 Neuquén, Argentina
Harvey Locke, 11 Glebe Road East, Ontario, Canada, M4S 1N7
Alicia Lonac, Planning & Management Research Group, Faculty of Tourism, Universidad Nacional del Comahue,
Buenos Aires 1400, 8300 Neuquén, Argentina
Margie Lynch, P.O. Box 656, Stow, MA 01775, USA
Susana Marioni, Planning & Management Research Group, Faculty of Tourism, Universidad Nacional del
Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300 Neuquén, Argentina
Linda McMillan, 721 Appleberry Road, San Rafael, California 94903, USA
Sean R. Moore, Centre for Tourism Policy and Research, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive,
Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5A 1S6
Laurence A. G. Moss, International Amenity Migration Centre, PMB 422 Santa Fe, NM, 87505, USA
Dieter K. Müller, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Umea University, SE-901 87, Umea, Sweden
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Lía Nakayama, Planning & Management Research Group, Faculty of Tourism, Universidad Nacional del
Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300 Neuquén, Argentina
Peter B. Nelson, Department of Geography, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA
Claudia Ollenburg, International Centre for Ecotourism Research, Griffith University, Parklands Drive,
Southport, Qld 4215, Australia
Adriana Otero, Planning & Management Research Group, Faculty of Tourism, Universidad Nacional del
Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300 Neuquén, Argentina
Manfred Perlik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, International Moutain Research, Technikerstrasse 21a, Otto-
Hittmair-Platz 1, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Bart Robinson, PO BOX 8618, Chinook Institute for Community Stewardship, Canmore, Alberta, Canada
T1W 2V3
Nikola Sanders, PO BOX 8618, International Centre for Ecotourism Research, Griffith University, Parklands
Drive, Southport, Qld 4215, Australia
Carole Stark, PO BOX 8618, Chinook Institute for Community Stewardship, Canmore, Alberta, Canada
T1W 2V3
Steve Thompson, Glacier Field Office, National Parks Conservation Association, PO Box 4485, Whitefish,
MT 59937, USA
Jan Warnken, International Centre for Ecotourism Research, Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport, Qld
4215, Australia
Peter W. Williams, Centre for Tourism Policy and Research, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive,
Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5A 1S6
Acknowledgements
In June 2003, while participating in the international conference Environmental Sustainability for Mountain
Areas Impacted by Tourism and Amenity Migrationat the Banff Centre, Canada, nine of the contributors to this
book met and decided a publication on global amenity migration was needed. In editing this volume, I
have drawn significantly upon the information and skills of friends and colleagues. Also I received con-
siderable information and insights from many others in my global sojourns in which amenity migration
was generally observed, and at times the focus of the experience. I owe a considerable debt of gratitude
to all these people for their generosity.
Most particularly I wish to thank my advisory group for the knowledge, time and constant con-
sideration they have given me over the past 21 months: Ralf Buckley, Ray Chipeniuk, Romella S.
Glorioso, Linda McMillan and Manfred Perlik. While I have used their advice, I am solely responsi-
ble for the product of our labour and the interpretations and opinions found in the introductory and
concluding chapters. I also wish to thank all the authors for their fine contributions to the volume,
and their patience with my inquiries, especially for the tedium in finalizing manuscripts. Others also
need to be singled out for their generous assistance: Douglas Brown, Patrick C. Jobes, Ralf (Skip)
Luken, William L. Pensinger, Sharr Prohaska, William Siembieda and Kim Sorvig. And back in time
there are my mentors; the seeds they planted hopefully bore fruit in this project: John W. Dyckman,
Clarence Glacken, Ho Ping Ti, J.B. Jackson, Kato Shuichi and Ren Fu Reng. The book would also
not exist of course without the continuous support of CAB International’s editorial and production
staff, especially Tracy Ehrlich and Claire Parfitt.
I am deeply grateful to my wife, Romella S. Glorioso, who did more than double duty in her pro-
fessional capacity as editorial advisor and constant companion on the intellectual and emotional pas-
sage of making a book. Maraming salamatRomella.
Laurence A.G. Moss
Santa Fe, New Mexico
10 November, 2005
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