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In this article a literature review is carried out with the aim of analysing the current state of research on public policies on eco-innovation in tourism, to provide a knowledge base on the potential and nature of this object of study. A content analysis of the publications in the Web of Science database was carried out. Starting from open-access articles under a structured search equation, 182 articles from the period between 1991 and 2021 were identified; these were subsequently analysed and classified under the Cloud of Science and Tree of Science software. The results show that the study of eco-innovation and its relationship with public policies in tourism contexts is most advanced in Asian countries, and the literature in Latin American contexts is still at an incipient stage. Research on policies that promote environmental care and regulatory policies that improve ecological processes is identified, highlighting the importance of practices and operational factors. It is concluded that studies on remedial, punitive, and macro-regulatory policies for environmental science and technology are absent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Native and western cultural representations of nature are analyzed in a multidisciplinary perspective in the geographic context of the Ecuadorian Amazonia. This social and environmental dynamic has not been clearly understood, and the environmental management is neither efficient nor considered legitimate. For indigenous people nature transcends its intrinsic value and its uses are the basis of their economic subsistence. For Western civilization, a mercantilist vision of nature prevails. This vision is confronted, at the same time, by a biocentric approach that confers certain intrinsic values. The goal of this article is to expand the dialogue between these two visions in the process of designing and executing a coherent environmental policy within the existing complexity. Moreover, some concepts will be brought to answer one key question: Is it possible for Amazonian inhabitants to maintain their levels of natural resource use in a long term period considering globalization within a context of environmental concern? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]