GLOSSARY OF ECO-TERMS

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Abusing Eco-Tourism
Academia
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Activist
Adaptation
Adfluvial
Administrative expenses
Adventure
Adventure not eco
Africa
African culture
Agraforestry
Alpine zone
Alternative tourism
Amphibian
An exchange
Anadromous
Animal rights activist
Animals
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Audobon
Avitourism
Bad business practices
Banding
Big / little
Bio parks
Biodegradable
Biodiversity
Biofilm
Bio-indicator
Biological
Biological regulations
Biologist
Biology
Biomass
Books
Botany
Breeding grounds
Bribes
Built by locals
Business
Business development
Business training
Buzzwords
By example
Candidate loctions
Canopy
Carnivore
Carrion
Carrying capacity
Case Study
Case Study Methods
Cataloguing the obstacles
Certification
Cetacean
Changes
Christian and missionary
Clearcut
Code of conduct
Coevolution
Commensalism
Community
Community development
Community interactions
Community participation
Compete with local labor
Competition
Competition between human and animals / elephants
Complaints
Composting
Composting toilets
Computer technology
Computer training
Condensation
Conflict
Conflict of interest
Conflict resolution
Conscientious tourism
Conservation
Conservation international
Conservation measures
Consumer
Consumption
Contact
Contributor
Cookie cutter eco-tourism
Corrective actions
Corridor
Corrupt countires
Corruption
Cost for public relation release
Cost-benefit analysis
Creating research to have eco tour
Criteria rather than definition
Cross work abroad
Cross-cultural
Cross-cultural solutions
Cultural
Cultural diversity
Cultural solution
Cultural travel
Culture
Culture problems
Customs
Customs and rituals
Cycle
Damage done by locals
Damage done by tourist
Damaged
Damaging
Danger
Data
Data collection process
Data processing
Data processing and storage and accessibility
Decomposers
Decomposition
Deep ecologists
Definitions:
Depletion of game animals.
Designating projects
Destroys
Destruction.
Destructive commercial employment
Developing country
Development
Development agencies
Development proposal
Dialogue
Direspect
Discuss normal tourism and its impact
Disruption
Dissolved oxygen
Diurnal
Diurnal tide
Diversity
Documents
Dolphins
Donations
Dynamite fishing
Eco
Eco-competition
Eco-lies
Ecolodges
Ecological management practices
Ecological relationship
Ecological role
Ecological tourism
Ecological trips
Ecological waste systems
Ecologically sensitive areas.
Ecologists
Ecology
Ecology of independent travel
Economic benefit
Economically sustainable
Eco-resorts
Ecosystem
Eco-systems
Ecosystems are dynamic
Ecotourism
Ecotourism in practice
Ecotourism in theory
Ecotourism planning kit
Ecotourism providers
Ecotourism resources
Eco-tourism society
Ecotourism strategy
Ecotourism venture
Ecotourist profile
Ecotravel
Efficiency
Empower women
Encompassed
Endemic
Enforcement
Enforcement problems
Enironmental preservation
Environment
Environmental
Environmental degradation
Environmental education and interpretation
Environmental impact assessment
Environmental impacts
Environmentalism
Environmentally educative
Epiphyte
Ericads
Erosion
Essential
Estuary
Ethical wildcrafting
Ethics
Evaluation of policies
Evaluation of the data collection process
Evaporation
Evergreen
Examples
Expert
Experts
Exploited
Explore meaning of eco-tourism
False ecotourism
Faq
Farm
Fauna
Fecundity
Feedback
Fees
Field Expenses
Field Program
Flora
Flora and fauna
Fluvial
Food chain
Food web
Footnotes
For profit
Forest
Forest floor
Fragmentation
Fruit
Fry
Fund raising kit
Funding
Fungus
Gear restrictions
Gentle tourism
Geology
Geomorphologist
Geo-tourism
Ghana
Glacial till
Glossary
Glossary reference help
Goverment
Governmental
Grasslands
Grassroots
Gray water systems
Green efforts
Green hotels
Green parties
Green party politics
Green politicians
Green tourism
Greenhouse gases
Greenwashing
Greepeace
Guide for ecotourism policy
Guidelines
Guiding programs
Habitat
Habitat and niche
Hardcore political activists
Hardwood
Harvesting forest products.
Herb
Herb layer
Herbicide
Herbivores
Hibernation
High cost low impact
Hiking
History
Holidays
Home stay
Horseback riding
How
How to advertise your webpage
How to be good ecotourist
How to change
How to read this document
Howtouse
Human-caused stresses: trampling
Humanitarians
Hunting of rare and protected animals
Hypocrisy
Hypothesis
Identification of policies
Identify key issues
Igrnorance
Imbalances
Impact
Independent studies
Independent travel
Indicator species
Indigenous
Indigenous Ecotourism
Information technology
Insect
Insecticide
Insensitive tours
Instructions
Interactions of humans with the environment leads
Interactive
Interactive treatise
Interdependence
International job
International organization
International press
International trade
International travel
International volunteer
Internships
Introduction
Invertebrate
Ivory Ban
Keystone species
Kidnapping
Killing
Landfill
Laws
Leader
Legal restraint
Legal systems
Lichen
Links
Literature
Literature Cited
Local and global recognition
Local cultures
Local press
Locally beneficial
Logging
Low impact
Mammal
Managed eco-tour growth
Managed forests
Management objectives
Management programs
Manatee
Mangroves
Manifesto
Maps of Eco-Sensitive Areas
Marketing practices
Maximizing benefits locally
Meaningful community involvement
Methodologies
Microenterprisesm
Minimize their negative impacts
Misleading business practice
Moderators
Monitoring
Monitoring programs
Monoculture
Multilayered canopy
Mutualism
Mycelium
Native animals
Natives
Natural selection
Natural stresses: wind
Nature based tourism
Nature tour operators
Nature-based products and markets
Nature-based tourism
Need to change
Negative impact
Ngo
Ngo non governmental organizations
Niche
Nitrogen fixation
Nocturnal
Nonconsumptive wildlife activities
Non-governmental organizations
Non-profit
Nonrenewable resource
Not sensitive
Notes
Nurse log
Nutrient
Nutrient cycling
Observations
Obstacles
Obtaining academic credit
Official and governmental approval
Old-growth forest
Omnivores
Operated and maintained by locals
Organizations
Over fishing
Over-consumption
Overseas job
Overvisited
Paedomorphosis
Parasitism
Participation
Pay to volunteer
Pdf files scramble
Peace corp
Pellet
Permaculture
Petroglyph
Ph (parts hydrogen)
Photosynthesis
Phrases
Pioneer
Pitfalls of tourism as a development strategy
Planning
Planning Process
Plant
Plate tectonics
Poachers
Poaching
Policies adopted
Policy
Policy setting process
Population growth rates
Porpoises
Poverty
Precipitation
Predation
Predator
Predator-prey relations
Predeparture programs
Press releases
Prevention Of Cultural Impacts Guideline
Prey
Primeval forest
Privacy
Proactive
Problems caused
Processes
Producer
Project assessment
Project initiated by the community
Projects
Projects marked
Prosecuting
Public statements
Publish materials
Publishing problems
Questions
Quiz
Radical environmentalists
Rain
Rain forests
Rainshadow
Range
Reach
Reasons
Reasons eco-tours are not eco-tours
Recommendation
Recycle
Recycling
Redd
Registration
Renewable resource
Reporting
Reptile
Research
Resource knowledge
Respiration
Responsible adventure travel.
Responsible tourism
Rich / poor
Riparian
Rodent
Sample
Saprophyte
Sapwood
Saturation
Scams
Scavenger
Scientists
Sediments
See glossary
Seed
Segregate
Self guide tours
Self sufficient
Self-regulatory system
Sensitive areas
Sensitvie
Sex tourism
Share information
Sierra club
Slash and burn farming methods
Smolt
Snags
Social
Soft tourism
Solar powered lighting
Soliciting the Support and Participation of the Local Government
Solutions
Souvenirs
Soveniers
Spawn
Specialty travel
Species
Spectacular features
Spectrum of symbiosis
Spore
Stability
Stakeholders
Standards
Starting eco-tourism business
Statistics
Stomata
Stop
Stories of how fantasy tours are created
Stress
Students
Subalpine zone
Successful practices
Succession
Support
Surveillance
Sustainability
Sustainable
Sustainable development
Sustainable tourism
Sustains itself
Swamps
Symbiosis
Sympathetic to the environment
Taboos
Targeted locations
Taxonomy
Teaching abroad
Teaching overseas
Technology
Territory
Testimonials
The Rhetoric of a Noble Cause, Used for Commercial Ends
The Struggle for Land Tenure
Theft
Third world countries
Timber
Timberline
Top eco-tourism sites
Tour companies
Tour group operators
Tourism
Tourism boycott
Tourism sustainability
Tourisme doux
Tourisme vert
Tourist satisfaction
Tours
Transect
Transpiration
Travel modes
Travelling
Treatise
Trees
True ecotourism
Truth in advertising
Tundra
Turtle
Uariability
Undermanaged
Understory
Uneven canopy
United Nations
Unwittingly intrusive
Upwelling
Vascular
Violate village standards of courtesy and custom
Virgin forest
Vocalization
Volunteer
Volunteer abroad
Volunteer organizations
Volunteer Programs
Volunteer Programs Program Fees
Volunteer Recruitment
Volunteer stories
Volunteer vacation
Waste
Waste Impacts on Mangrove Areas
Watching
Water and energy conservation
Water cycling
Watershed
Webpages
Webpages government
Webpages ngo
Webpages private
Welfare
Whales
What eco-tourism is not:
What should be included in a good eco tour
Where
Who
Who is involved
Why it destroys
Wilderness camping
Wildlands
Wildlife
Wildlife sanctuaries
Women rights
Work programs
Working till die
Workshop objectives
Worthy cause
Writing