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Author:: Matarrita Cascante, David
Title:: CONSEQUENCES OF TOURISM-BASED GROWTH ON RURAL COMMUNITIES’ QUALITY OF LIFE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LIBERIA AND LA FORTUNA,COSTA RICA
Graduate Program:: Rural Sociology
Keywords:: Tourism
quality of life
community
impacts of tourism
File:: Download David_MatarritaCascante_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Albert E Luloff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Stedman, Committee Member
James Craig Finley, Committee Member
Leland Luther Glenna, Committee Member
Alan R Graefe, Committee Member

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Author:: Yu, HungChih
Title:: AN EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECTS OF PARTICIPATION IN A COLLEGE STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM
Graduate Program:: Leisure Studies
Keywords:: Tourism
Motivation
Program Effects
Study Abroad
File:: Download 7thAlvinYuThesisFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Garry Chick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yi Jen Doris Lee, Committee Member
Duarte Morais, Committee Member
Harry Zinn, Committee Member

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Author:: Hartzell, Matthew
Title:: From Colonialism to Neocolonialism? Geographies of Tourism in the Indian Himalaya
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: colonialism
Himalaya
India
Tourism
neocolonialism
File:: Download Hartzell_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Deryck William Holdsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Marcinek, Anne A
Title:: Tourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Political Ecology, Cultural Commons, and Emic/Etic Understandings
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: Tourism
Indigenous
Amazon
Culture
Political Ecology
Empowerment
Commons
Ecuador
File:: Download MarcinekThesisPSU.pdf
Committee Members:: Carter A Hunt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter B Newman, Committee Member
Larry James Gorenflo, Committee Member

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Author:: Shahvali, Mojtaba
Title:: THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN VACATIONS, COUPLE FUNCTIONING, AND SATISFACTION WITH RELATIONSHIP
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: Couple Vacations
Family Leisure
Satisfaction with Relationship
Couple Functioning
Core and Balance Model
Tourism
Dyadic Study
Turk Prime
File:: Download Moji_Shahvali_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Deborah Kerstetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Kerstetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Dattilo, Committee Member
Carter A Hunt, Committee Member
Michael J Tews Jr., Outside Member

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Author:: Aghazamani, Yeganeh
Title:: PATHWAYS TO WOMENS’ EMPOWERMENT IN NORTHERN IRAN
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: Tourism
Women
Empowerment
Iran
File:: Download Yeganeh_Aghazamani_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Deborah L. Kerstetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah L. Kerstetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Allison, Committee Member
Peter Newman, Committee Member
Linda A. Wray, Outside Member

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Author:: Mueller, Joel Thomas
Title:: The Effect of Natural Resource Dependence on Economic Prosperity in Rural America
Graduate Program:: Rural Sociology
Keywords:: Natural Resources
Poverty
Development
Resource Curse
Resource Dependence
Rural
Tourism
Economic Development
Spatial Econometrics
Theory
United States
File:: Download Tom_Mueller_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Ann Rachel Tickamyer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ann Rachel Tickamyer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Committee Member
Alan R Graefe, Outside Member
Brian Clemens Thiede, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Naylor, Ryan
Title:: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Impacts of Tourism on Social Capital and Adaptive Capacity: Integrating Resilience and Development Theories
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: Social Capital
Adaptive Capacity
Resilience
Tourism
Alaska
Ethnographic
File:: Download Naylor_Thesis_Graduate_School_Version.pdf
Committee Members:: Carter A Hunt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derrick Taff, Committee Member
Karl Zimmerer, Committee Member
Peter Newman, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Drage, Erinn
Title:: Understanding Stakeholder Perspectives of Aviation Tourism Growth in the Alaska Range: An Exploration of History, Change, and Sustainable Tourism in National Parks and Gateway Communities
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: Parks
Protected Areas
Local Perspectives
Stakeholders
Community
Tourism
File:: Download Final_Erinn_Drage_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Newman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brendan Derrick Taff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marijke Hecht, Committee Member
Peter Newman, Program Head/Chair

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