In Reply to: tourism impact on bali- your opinion? posted by soco_chan on Friday, 24. October 2008 at 19:51 Bali Time:
I would suggest that you get your hands on a copy of the excellent book "Bali: Living in Two Worlds/A Critical Self Portrait", edited by Urs Ramseyer and I Gusti Raka Panji Tisna. The book is published by the Museum der Kuturen, Basel and contains very interesting essays by some of Bali's leading sociologists, artists, writers and anthropologists who examine Bali's push towards "modernity" & development and it's effects on culture, traditional agrarian and communal culture, water-sewage & waste handling-religion & society and all the negative (and positive) effects that come with the rapid development of tourism and technology.