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The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understand social-ecological systems that explain the relationship between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods linkages and provides a platform for dialogue to develop better understanding of the complex relationships between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods.
List of contents
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
About the author
Moren Tibabo Stone is Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Tourism Studies at the University of Botswana, Department of Environmental Science. His research interests include sustainable tourism development and management, ecotourism, community-based tourism, protected areas conservation and community livelihoods dynamics.
Lesego Senyana Stone is Associate Professor in Tourism Management at the University of Botswana in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management. Her research interests are in sustainable tourism development with specific reference to nature-based tourism, community-based tourism and community participation in tourism.
Gyan P. Nyaupane is Professor in the School of Community Resources & Development at Arizona State University. He has research experience in the fields of protected areas, public lands and sustainable tourism planning and policy. His research interests include understanding human-environment interactions, sustainable communities, resilience, indigeneity, nature-based tourism, and policy and planning.
Summary
The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understand social-ecological systems that explain the relationship between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods linkages and provides a platform for dialogue to develop better understanding of the complex relationships between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods.
