Living over Water - Restorative Redevelopment of Devastated Ecocultural Landscapes - page 278

FIGURE 14.43 Eutrophication in the bay near the city of Puno has produced blooms of
floating and benthic (bottom-attached) algae (shown respectively as white and black in the
photos).
reside with the empowered indigenous locals alone in the absence of an external
master plan created by experts (as, for example, for the island of Coiba in Panama, as
described in chapter 15), the seduction of short-term economic gains may override
long-term sustainability goals. In the end, success will come about through find-
ing a location-specific power-sharing balance between local and outside, bottom-up
and top-down, knowledge (see chapter 5). In this respect, the fledgling attempts by
the progressive ecotourism companies of Puno, like those discussed above for Siem