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

A Dynamic Perspective

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Editors:
  1. René van der Duim

    1. Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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  2. Machiel Lamers

    1. Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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  3. Jakomijn van Wijk

    1. Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  • Describes and analyzes two decades of institutional arrangements for tourism, biodiversity conservation and rural poverty reduction in eastern and southern Africa
  • Discusses the importance of tourism to conservation and development outside national parks in the region
  • Offers a comparative analysis of the emergence, diffusion, forms and impact, and future prospects of six different approaches to conservation, development and tourism
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Novel Institutional Arrangements for Tourism, Conservation and Development in Eastern and Southern Africa

    • René van der Duim, Machiel Lamers, Jakomijn van Wijk
    Pages 1-16

  3. From Exploitation to Ownership: Wildlife-Based Tourism and Communal Area Conservancies in Namibia

    • Brian T. B. Jones, Richard W. Diggle, Chris Thouless
    Pages 17-37

  4. The Tsiseb Conservancy: How Communities, the State and the Market Struggle for Its Success

    • Renaud Lapeyre
    Pages 39-58

  5. Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana

    • Joseph E. Mbaiwa
    Pages 59-80

  6. Community Empowerment Through Community-Based Tourism: The Case of Chobe Enclave Conservation Trust in Botswana

    • Moren T. Stone
    Pages 81-100

  7. Private Game Reserves in Southern Africa

    • Wouter van Hoven
    Pages 101-118

  8. False Legitimacies: The Rhetoric of Economic Opportunities in the Expansion of Conservation Areas in Southern Africa

    • Sarah A. Bologna, Marja Spierenburg
    Pages 119-137

  9. Hunting for Conservation? The Re-introduction of Sport Hunting in Uganda Examined

    • Amos Ochieng, Wilber Manyisa Ahebwa, Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers
    Pages 139-155

  10. The Evolution and Progression of Transfrontier Conservation Areas in the Southern African Development Community

    • John Hanks, Werner Myburgh
    Pages 157-179

  11. The Selous-Niassa Transfrontier Conservation Area and Tourism: Evolution, Benefits and Challenges

    • Christine Noe
    Pages 181-201

  12. Promoting Conservation Tourism: The Case of the African Wildlife Foundation’s Tourism Conservation Enterprises in Kenya

    • Jakomijn van Wijk, Machiel Lamers, René van der Duim
    Pages 203-218

  13. Implementing Tourism-Conservation Enterprises: A Comparison of Three Lodges in Kenya

    • Machiel Lamers, René van der Duim, Rita Nthiga, Jakomijn van Wijk, Swen Waterreus
    Pages 219-238

  14. A Dynamic Perspective on Institutional Arrangements for Tourism, Conservation and Development in Eastern and Southern Africa

    • Jakomijn van Wijk, Machiel Lamers, René van der Duim
    Pages 239-259

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 261-265
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    René van der Duim

  • Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Machiel Lamers

  • Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Jakomijn van Wijk

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Book Subtitle: A Dynamic Perspective

  • Editors: René van der Duim, Machiel Lamers, Jakomijn van Wijk

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9529-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9528-9Published: 01 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0812-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9529-6Published: 16 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 265

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environment, general, Tourism Management, Social Sciences, general, Geography, general, Law, general

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