Protected Areas and Tourism in Southern Africa: Conservation Goals and Community Livelihoods

ISBN-13: 9781032044330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 292 str.

Stone, Lesego Senyana

Opis

This volume discusses the complex relationship between Protected Areas and tourism and their impact on community livelihoods in a range of countries in Southern Africa.

Spis treści

1. Protected Areas and tourism dynamics in southern Africa: An overview  PART 1: COMMUNITY-PA RELATIONS: IMPACTS ON LOCAL COMMUNITIES  2. Protected areas and tourism development: A historical analysis of the Southern African Experience  3. Community perceptions of protected areas and tourism amidst poverty: Experiences from Southern Africa  4. Ecotourism as a paradigm shift in conservation and community livelihoods in the Southern African region: Opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt  5. Tolerance for wildlife resources through community wildlife-based tourism: Implications for sustainability  PART 2: PROTECTED AREAS, TOURISM AND HUMAN–WILDLIFE CONFLICTS DYNAMICS  6. Landscape governance in sub-Saharan Africa  7. In the way of wildlife: Contestations between Indigenous Peoples’ livelihood and conservation  8. The socio-economic impacts of wildlife crop-raiding: An assessment of the efficacy of conservation and agricultural land uses reconciliation  9. Protected areas and community-based tourism: The effectiveness of current mitigation techniques in human wildlife conflicts  PART 3: MANAGING THE WILDLIFE ECONOMY: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA  10. Lifting of the hunting ban and the elephant debate in Botswana: Implications for conservation and development in southern Africa  11. The role of the media and the international community in recent conservation issues in Southern Africa: The case of Cecil the lion  12. Nature-based tourism resources and climate change in Southern Africa: Implications for conservation and development sustainability  13. International organisations and the ivory sales ban debate: The case of Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana  14. The COVID-19 pandemic and nature-based tourism in Southern Africa  PART 4: Protected areas and tourism practices: Policy and practice  15. The adoption of community-based tourism in the proximity of protected areas: Implications for policy and practice  16. Militarization of conservation and 'shoot to kill' policies: An analysis of the rights of African states to protect and conserve wildlife  17. Implications of the 'high-value, low-volume' approach in conservation and tourism resources management  18. Promotion of pro-poor tourism in Southern Africa: Conservation and development critical issues  19. Contrasting safari and bushmeat hunting in Southern Africa: Conservation and development issues  PART 5: CONCLUSION  20. A synthesis of protected areas and tourism contributions to conservation and community livelihoods goals in Southern Africa: A conclusion