In this book I examine the main reasons why the National Park Gesause Partnership was established and how it subsequently developed until today. I offer an ethnographic account of the creation and development of this organisation that currently establishes the cooperation between the National Park Gesause and a group of 87 local companies. The analysis I present in this thesis highlights that the Partnership was created in order to solve two specific problems, namely the resistance of local inhabitants to the establishment of the National Park and the weakness of the local economy in the...