Protected Areas, Sustainable Tourism and Community Livelihood Linkages

Moren T. Stone, Lesego S. Stone, Gyan Nyaupane, Moren Stone, Lesego Stone

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032831756
• eBook ISBN: 9781040145210
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Sustainable Development
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Theorizing and contextualizing protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods linkages
• 2 Resident support of community-based tourism development: evidence from Gunung Ciremai National Park, Indonesia
• 3 Impacts of tourism on support for conservation, local livelihoods, and community resilience around Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
• 4 Community-based ecotourism and bushmeat consumption dynamics: implications for conservation and community development
• 5 Tourism development discourse dynamics in a context of conflicts between mining and nature conservation in the Brazilian Cerrado Hotspot
• 6 Connecting landscape-scale ecological restoration and tourism: stakeholder perspectives in the great plains of North America
• 7 Environmentality, green grabbing, and neoliberal conservation: the ambiguous role of ecotourism in the Green Life privatised nature reserve, Sumatra, Indonesia
• 8 Privately protected areas in increasingly turbulent social contexts: strategic roles, extent, and governance
• 9 The use of tourism as a social intervention in indigenous communities to support the conservation of natural protected areas in Mexico
• 10 Social and cultural capitals in tourism resource governance: the essential lenses for community focussed co-management
• 11 Governance of protected areas: an institutional analysis of conservation, community livelihood, and tourism outcomes
• Index