Browsing by Subject "water extractivism"

This master's thesis is an empirical case study of Mahahual, Quintana Roo. With tourism ranking as the second-largest contributor to Mexico's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), this research seeks to unravel the nuanced dynamics surrounding the sector's substantial water consumption, tourism governance, and water governance. The study argues that by not acknowledging the tourist sector's dependency on and the massive use of water resources in water governance, Mexico creates and supports water extractivism. In this sense, water is used as a natural resource to create economic benefits from tourism. At the same time, tourism-related harms, both social and environmental, are seen as unintended consequences of tourism as an economic activity, causing unequal access to water as a resource and heightening local resistance.