Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa
A Dynamic Perspective
Editors: Van der Duim, René, Lamers, Machiel, van Wijk, Jakomijn (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Novel Institutional Arrangements for Tourism, Conservation and Development in Eastern and Southern Africa
Pages 1-16
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From Exploitation to Ownership: Wildlife-Based Tourism and Communal Area Conservancies in Namibia
Pages 17-37
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The Tsiseb Conservancy: How Communities, the State and the Market Struggle for Its Success
Pages 39-58
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Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana
Pages 59-80
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Community Empowerment Through Community-Based Tourism: The Case of Chobe Enclave Conservation Trust in Botswana
Pages 81-100
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Book Subtitle
- A Dynamic Perspective
- Editors
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- René Van der Duim
- Machiel Lamers
- Jakomijn van Wijk
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-017-9529-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-017-9529-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-017-9528-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-0812-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 265
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
- Topics
