Protected Areas and Tourism in Southern Africa

Protected Areas and Tourism in Southern Africa

Author: Lesego Senyana Stone

Publisher: Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment

Published: 2023-09-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032044347

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Protected Areas and tourism dynamics in southern Africa: An overview / MOREN T. STONE, LESEGO S. STONE, GOEMEONE E. J. MOGOMOTSI AND PATRICIA K. MOGOMOTSI -- Protected Areas and Tourism Development: A Historical Analysis of the Southern African Experience / BOGA MANATSHA AND BONGANI GLORIOUS GUMBO -- Community perceptions of protected areas and tourism amidst poverty: Experiences from Southern Africa / HERBERT NTULI AND EDWIN MUCHAPONDWA -- Ecotourism as a paradigm shift in conservation and community livelihoods in the Southern African region: Opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt / SAID JUMA SULUO AND WINEASTER ANDERSON -- Tolerance for Wildlife Resources through Community Wildlife-Based Tourism: Implications for Sustainability / CHIEDZA NGONIDZASHE MUTANGA -- Landscape governance in sub-Saharan Africa / RENE VAN DER DUIM AND ARJAAN PELLIS -- In the Way of Wildlife: Contestations between Indigenous Peoples' Livelihood and Conservation / ONTHATILE OLERILE MOETI -- The socio-economic impacts of wildlife crop-raiding: An assessment of the efficacy of conservation and agricultural land uses reconciliation / EMMANUEL MWAKIWA -- Protected areas and community-based tourism: the effectiveness of current mitigation techniques in human wildlife conflicts / PATRICIA KEFILWE MOGOMOTSI -- Lifting of the hunting ban and the elephant debate in Botswana: Implications for conservation and development in southern Africa / JOSEPH ELIZERI MBAIWA AND EMMANUEL MOGENDE -- The role of the media and the international community in recent conservation issues in southern Africa: The case of Cecil the lion / GARIKAI CHIMUKA -- Nature-based tourism resources and climate change in southern Africa: -- Implications for conservation and development sustainability / KAITANO DUBE -- International organisations and the ivory sales ban debate: The case of Zimbabwe,Namibia and Botswana / CAROLINE COX -- The COVID-19 Pandemic and nature-based tourism in southern Africa / SUSAN SNYMAN -- The adoption of community-based tourism in the proximity of Protected Areas: Implications for policy and practice./ OLIVER MTAPURI -- Militarization of conservation and "shoot to kill" policies: An analysis of policy instruments on the environment and conservation in southern Africa / GOEMEONE, E.J MOGOMOTSI AND PATRICIA KEFILWE MOGOMOTSI -- Implications of the "High-value, Low-Volume" approach in conservation and tourism resources management / LESEGO, SENYANA STONE AND MOREN TIBABO STONE -- Promotion of pro-poor tourism in southern Africa: conservation and development critical issues / OWEN GOHORI, PEET VAN DER MERWE AND ANDREA SAAYMAN -- Contrasting safari and bushmeat hunting in southern Africa: Conservation and development issues / JULIA LAURA VAN VELDEN -- A synthesis of protected areas and tourism contributions to conservation and community livelihoods goals in southern Africa: A conclusion / MOREN TIBABO STONE, LESEGO SENYANA STONE, PATRICIA KEFILWE MOGOMOTSI, GOEMEONE EJ MOGOMOTSI.


Protected Areas and Tourism in Southern Africa

Protected Areas and Tourism in Southern Africa

Author: Lesego Senyana Stone

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-03-24

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 100054897X

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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. Protected areas and tourism have an enduring and symbiotic relationship. While protected areas offer a desirable setting for tourism products, tourism provides revenue that can contribute to conservation efforts. This can bring benefits to local communities, but it can also have a negative impact, with the establishment of protected areas leading to the eviction of local communities from their original places of residence, while also preventing them from accessing the natural resources they once enjoyed. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this book addresses the opportunities and challenges faced by communities and other stakeholders as they endeavour to achieve their conservation goals and work towards improving community livelihoods. Case studies from Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe address key issues such as human–wildlife conflicts, ecotourism, wildlife-based tourism, landscape governance, wildlife crop-raiding and trophy hunting, including the high-profile case of Cecil the lion. Chapters highlight both the achievements and positive outcomes of protected areas, but also the challenges faced and their impact on how protected areas are viewed and also conservation priorities more generally. The volume gives these issues affecting protected areas, local communities, managers and international conservation efforts centre stage in order inform policy and improve practice going forward. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, natural resource management, tourism, sustainable development and African studies, as well as professionals and policymakers involved in conservation policy.


African Hosts & Their Guests

African Hosts & Their Guests

Author: W. E. A. van Beek

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1847010490

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Africa is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots. Tourism is important for Africa: international tourist arrivals to Africa continue to grow, income from tourism is crucial to national economies, and tourism investments are considered among the most profitable. This edited volumedeals with the interaction of local communities with tourists coming into their areas and villages. Based upon a common theoretical approach, fourteen cases of African tourism are discussed which involve direct contact between 'hosts' and 'guests'. The viewpoint throughout is from the side of the locals, establishing how the processes of interaction shape each small scale destination. Crucial in Africa is the fact that the large majority of tourism is game oriented and the interaction between locals and visitors is very much 'tainted' by this fact. Central is the notion of the tourist bubble - the infrastructure that is generated locally (and internationally) for hosting tourists, as it is this institutional interface that tends to impact on the local society and culture, not the tourists themselves directly. The examples come from all over Africa, from the Sahara to the Eastern Cape, and from Kenyato Ghana. All contributions are based upon original fieldwork. Walter van Beek is professor of anthropology at Tilburg University and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden; Annette Schmidt is curatorof the African department at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, and is an archaeologist with a long experience in cultural management projects.


Tourism in Africa

Tourism in Africa

Author: Iain Christie

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1464801975

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This book presents how tourism initiates economic development and how constraints to the growth of tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa can be addressed. With 24 case studies that illustrate tourism development, it reveals that despite destination challenges, the basic elements needed to initialize or intensify success are applicable across the region.


Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa

Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa

Author: Regis Musavengane

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-11

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1000585352

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This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution, and redistribution. While Southern Africa is home to important biodiversity, pristine woodlands, and grasslands, and is a habitat for important wildlife species, it is also a land of contestations over its natural resources with a complex historical legacy and a wide variety of competing and conflicting issues surrounding race, cultural and traditional practices, and neoliberalism. Drawing on insights from conservation, environmental, and tourism experts, this volume presents the nexus between land conflicts and conservation in the region. The chapters reveal the hegemony of humans on land and associated resources including wildlife and minerals. By using social science approaches, the book unites environmental, scientific, social, and political issues, as it is imperative we understand the holistic nature of land conflicts in nature-based tourism. Discussing the management theories and approaches to community-based tourism in communities where there are or were land conflicts is critical to understanding the current state and future of tourism in African rural spaces. This volume determines the extent to which land reform impacts community-based tourism in Africa to develop resilient destination strategies and shares solutions to existing land conflicts to promote conservation and nature-based tourism. The book will be of great interest to students, academics, development experts, and policymakers in the field of conservation, tourism geography, sociology, development studies, land use, and environmental management and African studies.


Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa

Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa

Author: René van der Duim

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-16

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9401795290

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This book presents an overview of different institutional arrangements for tourism, biodiversity conservation and rural poverty reduction in eastern and southern Africa. These approaches range from conservancies in Namibia, community-based organizations in Botswana, conservation enterprises in Kenya, private game reserves in South Africa, to sport hunting in Uganda and transfrontier conservation areas. The book presents a comparative analysis of these arrangements and highlights that most arrangements emerged in the 1990s through either a decentralized or centralized change trajectory that was sponsored by donors. They aim to address some of the challenges of the ‘fortress’ types of conservation by combining principles of community-based natural resource management with a neoliberal approach to conservation, evident in the use of tourism as the main mechanism for accruing benefits from wildlife. The book illustrates the empirical relevance of these novel arrangements by presenting their growth in numbers and discuss how these arrangements differ in their form. With respect to the conservation and development impacts of these arrangements, we show that they have secured large amounts of land for conservation, but also generated governance challenges and disputes on tourism benefit sharing, affecting the stability of these arrangements to generate socioeconomic and conservation benefits.


Sustainable Tourism Dialogues in Africa

Sustainable Tourism Dialogues in Africa

Author: Judy Kepher Gona

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-03-21

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 3110702568

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Focusing on the future of tourism, Sustainable Tourism Dialogues in Africa is inclusive of experienced and emerging researchers, as well as incorporating local stakeholders in the tourism industry: architects, tourism operators, sustainable tourism lobbyists, policy makers, archaeologists, and geographers. The editors are frontline sustainable tourism advocates in Africa, and the book’s thematic content is derived from 30 inter-university seminars on sustainable tourism hosted by Sustainable Travel & Tourism Agenda Kenya from 2017 to November 2019. These seminars involved the participation of 17 universities in Kenya, tourism operators, conservationists, developmentalists, investors, policy makers, and students. Every chapter is a voice projecting aspirations for the responsible management of tourism in Africa and promoting the ideals of sustainable tourism that young people in Africa advocate for the industry’s future. In so doing, the authors pinpoint the necessary actions for bringing about transformations in sustainable development of tourism. The book thus seeks to encourage debate, while facilitating the development of both theoretical and practical foundations for managing tourism sustainably in Africa.


Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Richard Primack

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 1783747536

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Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region. Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography. Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.


Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs

Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs

Author: African Union Commission

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-01-19

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 926460653X

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Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.