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Connor Clark is a third-year PhD student at Arizona State University. His principle research focus is on how communities can create social, cultural, health, and economic benefits through protecting natural and cultural resources. His research interests include sustainable tourism development, natural resource management, nature-based tourism, economic empowerment, and community resilience.

Gyan Nyaupane is a professor at Arizona State University. He has extensive research experience in the fields of parks and public lands, planning and policy, and sustainable/eco/heritage tourism. Dr. Nyaupane’s research interests include understanding human-environment interactions, sustainable communities, resilience, indigeneity, nature-based tourism, and policy and planning.

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This study investigates the relationship between tourism development, ecological restoration, and border making processes at the U.S.-Mexico border. By employing a multiple case study design, this paper highlights stakeholder views towards ongoing tourism development and ecological restoration efforts in the region as well as opportunities for stakeholder collaboration. The findings reveal diverse attitudes towards these ongoing efforts, unlikely partnerships between stakeholder groups previously thought to have incompatible goals, and abundant challenges as well as opportunities for cross-border collaborations. As data continues to be collected, the findings will be discussed in the context of ‘bordering’ processes to illuminate how these efforts contribute to border ‘softening’ and/or ‘hardening’.

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Connecting Tourism Development and Ecological Restoration Synergies with Bordering Processes at the U.S.-Mexico Border

This study investigates the relationship between tourism development, ecological restoration, and border making processes at the U.S.-Mexico border. By employing a multiple case study design, this paper highlights stakeholder views towards ongoing tourism development and ecological restoration efforts in the region as well as opportunities for stakeholder collaboration. The findings reveal diverse attitudes towards these ongoing efforts, unlikely partnerships between stakeholder groups previously thought to have incompatible goals, and abundant challenges as well as opportunities for cross-border collaborations. As data continues to be collected, the findings will be discussed in the context of ‘bordering’ processes to illuminate how these efforts contribute to border ‘softening’ and/or ‘hardening’.