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ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

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ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH VOLUME 30

FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL: ECO-ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

EDITED BY

TAYLOR A. FOERSTER

The University of Arizona, USA

JOHN L. KOPROWSKI

University of Wyoming, USA

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MATTHEW M. MARS

The University of Arizona, USA

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Contents

About the Contributors

Omolola Oluwakemi Ajayi is a Lecturer in the Department of Hospitality Management and Tourism, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and with research affiliations with the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Renewable Natural Resources (Tourism Management) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and had previously had her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Wildlife and Ecotourism Management in the same institution. She has a cumulative 11 years of experience in research/teaching in academia. Her main research interests revolve around nature tourism, eco-hospitality, environmental sustainability, and biodiversity conservation. To this effect, she has co-authored 24 journal articles, 3 books and various book chapters and conference proceedings. While she has previously concentrated her researches within her educational frame, she is currently expanding this to explain the interconnections that “eco” has with other sectors, people and governments; and how this can be implemented for a more sustainable future.

Yasser Vázquez Alfonso has a Master’s degree in New Technologies Applied to Education and Ph.D. in Veterinary Sciences from the Agrarian University of Havana and the Institute of Animal Science in Cuba. He has various publications in magazines indexed in Latindex, Scielo and Scopus and presentations at the international and national levels, and he is a researcher in several national and international research projects. He is also a diploma, master’s and doctoral thesis tutor. He has won several research awards, has developed and registered several softwares. He is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Havana, Editor of magazines for the Digital Science Consortium and Coordinator of the M@TUR Group.

Yekini Ojo Bello is an Associate Professor of Tourism Management in the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Tourism Management from the prestigious Putra University, Malaysia. He had his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Hospitality and Tourism Management from Imo State University, Nigeria. He had over seven years industrial experience at operations and management level in the Hotel and Ship-chandelling industry before joining Ondo State Polytechnic, Owo, and later, Federal Polytechnic Auchi, both in Nigeria as an Academic Staff. Aside being an academic, he is also a seasoned consultant in hospitality and tourism management, impacting in the industry both locally and internationally. He is a certified member of various professional associations. Being a prolific writer, and interdisciplinary researcher, he had written 15 text books in the domain of hospitality and tourism management including, publication of several scholarly articles in high impact factor journals.

Nate Brown, a Wyoming native, was born in Fremont County and is proud to become a member of The WYldlife Fund team working as Operations Manager. He has worked for the past decade in the oil and gas industry as a pipeline inspector, foreman and superintendent. He credits his experiences in Wyoming, working in the agriculture and outfitting industries with providing him the tenacity to excel in his endeavors in the oil and gas business. He “cut his teeth” in the livestock industry, outfitting and guiding hunters, building saddles and as a farrier. Along with his guiding and outfitting background, he has enjoyed many hours in the saddle working alongside many of the best in the livestock and ranching industry.

Grace Carr graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2020 with a B.S. in Biology and a B.S. in Environmental System Science, along with a concurrent major in Environment and Natural Resources. As a Wyoming native, her passions have always been grounded in her home state. With a profound dedication to the domains of Wyoming’s wildlife, landscapes and people, her academic pursuits now converge at the juncture of these components. She is currently working toward her Master’s degree in Environment, Natural Resources, and Society, primarily focusing on the pivotal role of habitats in contributing to the value of Wyoming’s wildlife, specifically, delving into the intricate relationships between elk populations and their habitat across both public and private lands.

Kléber Patricio Castro Pacheco is an Adjunct Instructor at Berkeley College – New York and a Ph.D.(c) candidate in Economic Sciences and Tourism at the University of Havana, Cuba. Pacheco’s expertise includes sustainable tourism master planning, smart tourism destinations, and tourism marketing and financial planning. He has spoken and lectured at seminars in USA, Spain, Chile, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Turkey, and Ecuador.

Mónica Liliana Castro Pacheco is a freelance tourism lecturer and consultant with expertise in tourism manual and multimedia design. Pacheco’s research is global in reach and appears in multiple indexed publication outlets.

Kayla Clark is a formally trained graphic designer specializing in human-centered design, typography and science communication. She explores the intersection of 14th century letterpress printing and new technologies as well as physical, experimental and non-traditional forms of science communication and data collection. Prior to entering the field of higher education, she worked professionally as a graphic designer with an array of clients including Grub Hub, Denver Public Schools and Dale Carnegie. She created her own design and strategy studio, diving into entrepreneurship at a young age. Some of her favorite community-based design projects include interactive exhibits created for the North Carolina Estuarium and Town of Princeville. She currently explores interdisciplinary collaborations and combines her interests in creative research, mentorship, design and letterpress as a jointly appointed faculty member of the University of Wyoming’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Communication & Journalism Department.

Shu Cole, Ph.D., is currently Professor in the Department of Health and Wellness Design at Indiana University School of Public Health – Bloomington. Her research centers on investigating the travel and tourism experiences of people with disabilities and older adults. Specifically, her research focuses on understanding the psychological, social and environmental factors that predict travel and tourism participation of people with mobility disability and older adults. Additionally, she is interested in exploring the health benefits experienced by aging travelers and travelers with disabilities. Findings from her research can aid businesses such as lodging, airports, and tourism destinations in expanding their capacities to better cater to the increasing aging population, as well as offer more inclusive and accessible experiences to a broader range of visitors.

Luis Eduardo Álvarez Cortez holds a Bachelor of Marketing, is a Commercial Engineer, has a Master’s degree in Business Management from the Technical University of Ambato, Ecuador. He has various publications in magazines indexed in Latindex, Scielo and Scopus and presentations at the international and national levels. He is a researcher in several national and international research projects and a diploma and master’s thesis tutor. He has published five academic books. He is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Tourism of the Amazon State University. He is a Coordinator of the Business Administration Degree at UNIANDES University, Liaison Coordinator of the Business Administration Career at UNIANDES University, and Liaison Coordinator in the Tourism major, UEA University.

Curt Davidson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. His love of the outdoor started when he worked as a mountaineering ranger with the United States Forest Service. Since then, he has worked for over a dozen adventure education and guiding programs throughout the globe. His research interests include character education, experiential learning and mental health and wellness. He is the author of several books and projects, including the Behavioral First Responder Certification, Behavior and Group Management in Experiential Education and the Outdoor Facilitator’s Handbook. Apart from teaching and writing, he also enjoys skiing, climbing, and sailing.

Taylor A. Foerster, M.S., is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at The University of Arizona. She holds degrees in Natural Resources and Agricultural Education that inform her interdisciplinary research program. Her current research interests include the application of social influence theory in environmental contexts to develop effective communication strategies and promote community connectedness.

Sara Ghezzi is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. She teaches courses for the Hospitality Business Management Minor for the College of Business as well as courses in tourism and customer service. She is a Wyoming Outdoor Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality Initiative affiliated faculty member. She came to the University of Wyoming from the University of Southern Maine where she was a Lecturer in the Tourism and Hospitality Program from 2015 to 2020. During that time, she helped the program to grow by creating new courses and the hospitality management concentration. She attended Auburn University where she received her Ph.D. in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Her industry experience includes Event Management at The Hotel at Auburn University and as an Assistant Sommelier at the Mandarin Oriental Miami.

Noah Hoback, Ph.D., is currently the Assistant Director and Programs Manager of Outdoor Recreation for Schriever Space Force Base. His research focuses on the retired population and adults over 55 travel experiences. His research specifically investigates to what degree certain barriers (pandemics, health, social, psychological, or financial) impact an individual’s likelihood to travel. He is also interested in how or to what degree travel can help improve the quality of life for individuals over 55. His research can benefit tourism businesses to help understand a growing population that is traveling later in life. It can help these businesses understand what this population needs and wants to visit their attraction/destination and how to fill slower times of the year.

Jacob Hochard, Ph.D., is the Knobloch Associate Professor of Conservation Economics in the University of Wyoming’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. He combines geospatial and causal inference analysis with mathematical modeling to improve the management and valuation of land, water and wildlife. Before joining the University of Wyoming, he worked as a Faculty Fellow with the US Environmental Protection Agency, an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University and a Research Affiliate with the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute. He has led over $2.2 million in interdisciplinary projects, supported by federal agencies, non-profit organizations and private foundations, with research articles and commentaries being featured in outlets such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Sustainability.

John L. Koprowski, Ph.D., is Dean of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and Professor of Zoology at the University of Wyoming. His research program focuses on the ecology, conservation and management of biodiversity through community-based approaches in the United States, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Nepal, China, Mongolia, South Africa, and numerous other international locations. With more than 210 peer-reviewed articles and books, he and his >50 graduate students have provided data-informed solutions to conservation challenges. His efforts in wildlife conservation have led to his election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Wildlife Society, the Explorers Club and the Linnean Society of London.

Chieh-Lu Li, Ph.D., holds an M.S. from Purdue University and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. He also did a three-year post-doctoral research at The University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in a number of funded research projects and has published more than 100 scholarly works in park, recreation and tourism. The primary goal of his research is to enhance scientific understanding of human behavior as it relates to the sustainability of socio-ecological systems in the context of park, recreation and tourism. Specifically, his research focuses on cross-cultural marketing, international tourism, outdoor recreation, outdoor hospitality, protected area management, nature-based tourism, ecotourism and human dimensions of natural resources and environment. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal Outdoor Recreation & Tourism and Society & Natural Resources.

Matthew M. Mars, Ph.D., is a Professor of Leadership and Innovation at The University of Arizona. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurial leadership, organizational innovation, strategic communication, and program planning and evaluation. His research, which is notably interdisciplinary, focuses on everyday placemaking and how entrepreneurial logics and strategies become embedded in and influence academic cultures, community development initiatives and social movements. In addition to being a widely published interdisciplinary scholar, he is currently the Co-editor of Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth series, Associate Editor of Community Development, and a member of the editorial board of Local Development & Society.

Chris McBarnes is the President of The WYldlife Fund (The Fund). He brings an enthusiastic and collaborative leadership style to the table in order to positively impact the wildlife of Wyoming. He has been a lifelong outdoorsman, and next to faith and family, this is his biggest passion. He has lead philanthropic efforts to fund wildlife crossings, big game migration and connectivity and youth initiatives during his time with The Fund. Before taking the reins of The Fund, he was elected Indiana’s Youngest Mayor at 23 years old in November 2011, following his graduation from Butler University with a Communications degree, he and his team led Frankfort, Indiana for eight years and two months achieving a number of successes built around a series of 100- and 200-Day Plans. Since Frankfort’s founding in 1830, he is the only third-term elected Mayor in the city’s history.

Dan McCoy, Ph.D., is the Interim Director of the Wyoming Outdoor Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality (WORTH) Initiative. Previously, he was an Associate Lecturer and Degree Coordinator for the Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management Degree in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. He holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degree from the University of Wyoming, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Montana. He has extensive experience in the fields of outdoor leadership, education and recreation. He helped create the Outdoor Leadership Minor and the Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management Degree in the Haub School. In addition, he has been an Instructor at the Department of Kinesiology and Health, University of Wyoming, a board member of the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education a member of the City of Laramie Parks, Trails, and Recreation Master Plan Advisory Committee and the Wyoming State Advocate for the Center for Outdoor Ethics, Leave No Trace.

Oluwafemi Oluwabusuyi Olonibua is an independent researcher working at the intersection of livelihood, agricultural value chain, climate change and development. He holds a Master’s degree in Agricultural Extension and Rural Development from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; where he had previously obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics. His research activities are concerned with addressing issues that affect livelihood activities and outcomes in agrarian and rural areas, and of recent have delved into environmental sustainability and political ecology within and beyond the agricultural space. He has co-authored two journal articles. Currently, he works as the Lead Researcher at Verity Writes, Nigeria.

Taylor Phillips is the Founder of EcoTour Adventures. He grew up outside of Richmond, Virginia. After receiving a degree in Environmental Studies and Philosophy, he moved to Jackson Hole, working as a Naturalist and Science Educator. He founded EcoTour Adventures in 2008 with the goal of offering visitors more meaningful experiences than the standard sightseeing tour. By connecting guests directly to the diverse wildlife and wild places of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, it is his hope that they will be inspired to steward the natural world around them. In 2021, he, along with the EcoTour Adventures Team and other partners, founded WYldlife for Tomorrow, an initiative that inspires businesses and individuals who depend upon Wyoming’s wildlife to help fund on-the-ground conservation projects that make a difference. He is currently a board member for the fiscal sponsor of WYldlife for Tomorrow, The WYldlife Fund.

Jennifer Piatt, Ph.D., CTRS, is a Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute, and the Co-Principal Investigator of the Disability and Sexual Health Initiative. She is an Associate Professor at Indiana University-Bloomington, School of Public Health in the Department of Health and Wellness Design where she is the Director of the Community-based Rehabilitation Research (CBRT) Team that focuses on sexual health and individuals living with disabilities. The CBRT also examines the impact of socially assistive robots as a recreational therapy intervention. She is the Faculty Advisor for the Runway of Dreams Foundation Student Club at Indiana University and launched the first wheelchair basketball team at Indiana University. She continues to advocate for equal access, especially within college experiences.

Tigran Sargsyan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Geography and Geology, Yerevan State University (YSU) in Yerevan, Armenia. Holding a Ph.D. in Geography since 2010, he is currently teaching at the Chair of Service and the Chair of Public Administration at YSU. He is also a YSU American Studies Center teaching staff member, a position he has held since 2021 after spending a semester-in-residence at Arizona State University (Tempe campus) as an American Studies Visiting Fellow. He has conducted a number of guest lectures and collaborated on research projects at universities such as Duisburg-Essen (Germany), Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland), and Vilnius University (Lithuania). The areas of his academic and research interests are interdisciplinary to include geography, regional development and regional studies, sustainable human development and tourism studies.

Mary Katherine Scott, Ph.D., has built a research portfolio based on interdisciplinary methodology and ethnography. Her fieldwork in the Yucatán, Mexico investigates the effects of tourism on cultural identity (re)negotiations and revitalizations in zones of cross-cultural encounter. That is, she explores how tourists’ consumption of Maya culture and history catalyzed local ethnic Maya artisans, archaeologists, restaurant and hotel workers, tour guides and other tourism workers to reconsider and revitalize their connection to a heritage that was all but eradicated by the Spanish in the 16th century. Ultimately, she is curious about the ways tourism can contribute to artistic, cultural, environmental, economic and other kinds of sustainability. Her academic writings have appeared in scholarly journals, edited volumes and other peer-reviewed publications within the humanities and social sciences. Her work is of value to scholars working in tourism studies, cultural anthropology, museum studies, art history, Mayanist and Latin American studies and other interdisciplinary fields.

Tyler Shreve was born and raised in Buffalo, Wyoming, where he grew up being emersed in the outdoors. Spending most of his childhood and young adult life fly fishing, hiking, hunting and backpacking, he developed a strong connection with Wyoming’s nature and wildlife. After spending three years in Oregon competing in college golf and working on a degree in psychology, he realized that he was pursing the wrong career path and transferred home to the University of Wyoming (UW) where he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Systems Science and Environmental Natural Resources. He is now pursuing a Master’s degree in Environment, Natural Resources, and Society in the UW Haub School for Environment and Natural Resources. He is currently a Research Assistant on the collaborative project between the Haub School and WYldlife for Tomorrow.

Tembi Maloney Tichaawa is a Full Professor and Head of Department in the School of Tourism and Hospitality and Department of Tourism at the University of Johannesburg. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Management from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a Master’s degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management (Cum Laude) from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He has a combined 15 years’ industry and academic experience in the domain of tourism, events, and hospitality management. He has published and co-published 63 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, in addition to 18 conference proceedings. He conducts research on a range of developmental issues linked to tourism, hospitality and events management with specific focus on the developing context. His vision is to contribute in advancing STH’s vision to create sought after leaders in the tourism and hospitality sector in Africa.

Victor Hugo Del Corral Villarroel has a degree in Tourism and Hospitality and a Master’s degree in Ecotourism Project Management from the Technical University of Ambato, Ecuador. He has various publications in journals indexed in Latindex, Scielo, and Scopus and presentations at the international and national levels. He is a researcher in several national and international research projects and a master’s thesis tutor. He is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Tourism of the Amazonian State University. He has served as Coordinator of the Master’s degree in Tourism at the Amazonian State University.

Inna Willis is the Artist and Graphic Designer behind the WYLD initiative – a series of projects striving to involve local businesses in supporting wildlife conservation, organized by WYldlife for Tomorrow and the University of Wyoming’s Haub School. Her label for the WYLD Amber Ale beer won a local design competition and became the first in the WYLD series. She believes that packaging and label design can be a powerful tool in directing attention to a worthy cause, and she hopes that her art can reignite people’s interest in Wyoming wildlife.