Protected Areas, Sustainable Tourism and Community Livelihood Linkages

Protected Areas, Sustainable Tourism and Community Livelihood Linkages
Author: Moren Stone
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2024-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040145213

The book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to address lessons learned and challenges encountered over the years in different ecological, economic, political and cultural contexts. Protected areas were originally established as recreational spaces and to protect some components of nature; however, today they are also expected to provide an increasing range of benefits to an array of people. Protected areas no longer simply “protect” but they also provide ecosystem services and facilitate poverty reduction via local development, ecotourism, and sustainable resource use. Integrating tourism and conservation with existing local historical, socio-economic, and institutional landscapes is associated with the promotion of local community participation in resource management. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understand social-ecological systems that explain the relationship between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods linkages. The book provides a platform for dialogue to develop a better understanding of the complex relationships between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods linkages. Due to the role tourism plays in poverty alleviation, conservation, empowerment and addressing other environmental and social challenges, the book also connects tourism with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers of tourism, conservation, natural resource management, sustainable development as well as professionals and policymakers involved in conservation policy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Natural Resources, Tourism and Community Livelihoods in Southern Africa

Natural Resources, Tourism and Community Livelihoods in Southern Africa
Author: Moren T. Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000763714

This book examines the connections between natural resources, tourism and community livelihood practices in Southern Africa, highlighting the successes and constraints experienced over the last 50 years. Questioning how natural resources, tourism and community livelihoods relations can positively contribute towards development efforts, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understand socio-ecological systems that characterize the dynamics for sustainable development. It explores the history of conservation and natural resource management in Southern Africa and traces the development and growth of nature-based tourism. Boasting a wide range of tourism landscapes, including national parks, wetlands, forests and oceans, the book draws on case studies from a variety of Southern African countries, including Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, and considers the political challenges for implementing policies and practices. Furthermore, it analyses broader issues such as the impact of climate change, human–wildlife co-existence and resulting conflicts, poor access to funding and poverty in local communities. The book argues that the links between conservation and livelihoods can be best understood by considering the different approaches to reconciling the demands of conservation and livelihoods that have evolved over the past decades. Containing contributions from natural and social sciences the book provides guidance for practitioners and policymakers to continue to shape policies and practices that are in line with the key tenets of sustainable development. It will also be of great interest to students and scholars researching Southern Africa, sustainable tourism and conservation.

Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas

Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas
Author: Paul F. J. Eagles
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0851995896

This book describes the state of the art of tourism planning and management in national parks and protected areas. It also provides guidelines for best practice in tourism operations. Other objectives are to: Describe case studies and guidelines that contribute to conservation of biological diversity; consider the role of local communities within or near these areas; outline the development of tourism infrastructure and services; discuss visitor management; provide guidelines to enhance the quality of the tourism experience. The focus is global and the book will appeal to both academics and practitioners.

Eco-Tourism And Livelihoods: Capacity Building For Local Authorities

Eco-Tourism And Livelihoods: Capacity Building For Local Authorities
Author: A.K. Bhattacharya
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2005
Genre: Ecotourism
ISBN: 9788180691744

Tourism is the most rapidly growing and biggest civilian industry in the world and ecotourism forms the largest proportion of the present tourism. Since ecotourism involves maximum number of stakeholders, from local communities to the corporate world, proper capacity building of the major stakeholders for effective planning and management of ecotourism has become a prerequisite for the sustainable ecotourism development. This book attempts to fill in this gap. The book addresses the key issues concerning ecotourism management, with special focus on community participation. It deals with a range of topics including the basic concept, forms, potential assessment, planning and case studies of ecotourism. At the same time, it discusses the new concepts and techniques of ecotourism, viz. carrying capacity, community participation and auditing. The book will be useful for practitioners, researchers and other stakeholders in planning and implementation of ecotourism.

Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas

Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas
Author: Paul F. J. Eagles
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2002
Genre: Ecotourism
ISBN: 2831706483

This report tells how to ensure that tourism follows a sustainable path and that it contributes to the sustainable management of protected areas. Guidelines are presented to help readers understand protected area tourism and its management, and practical suggestions are based on theory and practice from around the world. Coverage includes biodiversity and conservation, planning for protected area tourism, culturally sensitive design and operation, visitor management, and human resources. There is no subject index. Eagles teaches at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Protected Areas, Sustainable Tourism and Neo-liberal Governance Policies

Protected Areas, Sustainable Tourism and Neo-liberal Governance Policies
Author: Hubert Job
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429856318

From its late nineteenth century origins, the concept of protected areas has increased in scope and complexity. It now has to come to terms with the twenty first century world of neo-liberal politics, performance metrics and the growing and complex demands of tourism. This international collection of papers explores how this might be done, detailing the issues involved, and the value and values that protected areas have for economies, peoples and environments. Special attention is given to World Heritage Sites, tourism planning and their communities, to the growth of private protected areas, and to the health values of protected areas. Other subjects include private sector business involvement in protected areas, concessions policy experiments, and how the work of the world’s largest protected area agency, the US National Park Service, is adapting to changing political and market demands, and to the challenges of sustainable development. It concludes with a searching interview with a member of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee. The chapters were originally published in a special issue in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Protected Areas, Tourism and Rural Community Livelihoods in Botswana

Protected Areas, Tourism and Rural Community Livelihoods in Botswana
Author: Moren Tibabo Stone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2013
Genre: Protected areas
ISBN:

Firstly, this study uses community asset mapping guided by the community capitals framework (CCF) to explore the linkages between protected areas (PAs), tourism and community livelihoods. Secondly, it assesses changes in community needs facilitated by community participation in wildlife-based tourism in a protected area setting. Thirdly and finally, the study assesses whether the introduction of community wildlife-based tourism in a protected area as a sustainable management tool has led to the spiraling up or down of community capitals. The study adopted qualitative research method approach and made use of data collected through community asset mapping supplemented by data from focus group discussions, households, key informants, and secondary data materials that were analyzed and interpreted in light of community capital framework. The Chobe National Park (CNP) and Chobe Enclave Conservation Trust (CECT); a community living adjacent to CNP in Botswana provides the context on which this study's discussion focuses. Results indicate that the accession of Botswana from colonialism through post colonialism era intertwined considerable institutional arrangement changes in the field of protected area governance that reflects evolutionary management styles. Protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods linkages are based on many inter-dependents of community capitals relationships which are dependent on community socio-economic activities. In assessing changes in community needs, the results indicate that participation in wildlife-based tourism has brought both positive and negative changes that have implications on both the status quo for community livelihoods and protected areas, namely; the influence of changes in community capitals dynamics, mechanization and commercialization of agriculture, government funded infrastructural development, income generation, and the commodification of some of the community capitals. Finally, the increased livelihoods options and diversification dynamics, fragile wildlife-livestock co-existence, heightened human-wildlife conflicts, environmental education and awareness are the emerging themes that explain how the introduction of tourism in a protected area setting affect the spiraling up and down of the community capitals dynamics.

Tourism for Sustainable Livelihood in Protected Areas

Tourism for Sustainable Livelihood in Protected Areas
Author: C.A. Tefera
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

Linking the benefit of conservation activities in protected areas with the livelihood of the community through nature based tourism has great contribution to sustainable utilization of its resources and improves its local communities` livelihood. If the local communities involve and benefits from the park, the park easily wins the support of local communities to undertake effective conservation activities. Based on this argument, the study has examined how the existing tourism activity in the park influences the livelihood of local communities by using sustainable livelihood framework. The study has used semi-structures interview, focus group discussion, participant field observation and document analysis methods. The main finding of the study indicated that the benefit of tourism to local communities is mainly concentrated in Arba Minch town and this resulted in rural communities to lead their traditional livelihood activities which encourage unsustainable use of the park resources. The ineffectiveness of the institutional set up to involve rural communities in its tourism initiative has created problems like overgrazing, overfishing, deforestation and settlement in the park. In addition, the weak institutional policies of the park do not enable the park to make link with partners to address the livelihood of local communities as well as the conservation objective of the park effectively. Thus, the study suggests that the park has to find partners, involve rural local communities in its tourism initiative, focus on infrastructural development in the areas to enhance assets basses of the communities, fix its political problem and get its legal recognition.

Tourism, Recreation, and Sustainability

Tourism, Recreation, and Sustainability
Author: Stephen F. McCool
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2008
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1845934717

Sustainable development is the single most important consideration for those working in the tourism industry. Presenting a discussion by leading contributors on the impacts of tourism on local culture and the environment, this new edition moves forward the debates in sustainable tourism, covering new locations, concepts and perspectives, and new case studies providing a global outlook for a universal issue. --From publisher's description.