ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|57 pages
Community–PA relations
chapter 2|13 pages
Protected areas and tourism development
chapter 3|14 pages
Community perceptions of protected areas and tourism amidst poverty
chapter 4|14 pages
Ecotourism as a paradigm shift in conservation and community livelihoods in the Southern African region
chapter 5|14 pages
Tolerance for wildlife resources through community wildlife-based tourism
part II|57 pages
Protected areas, tourism and human–wildlife conflicts dynamics
chapter 7|13 pages
In the way of wildlife
chapter 8|14 pages
The socio-economic impacts of wildlife crop-raiding
chapter 9|14 pages
Protected areas and community-based tourism
part III|74 pages
Managing the wildlife economy
chapter 10|15 pages
Lifting of the hunting ban and the elephant debate in Botswana
chapter 11|15 pages
The role of the media and the international community in recent conservation issues in Southern Africa
chapter 12|14 pages
Nature-based tourism resources and climate change in Southern Africa
chapter 13|13 pages
International organisations and the ivory sales ban debate
part IV|68 pages
Protected areas and tourism practices
chapter 15|13 pages
The adoption of community-based tourism in the proximity of protected areas
chapter 16|14 pages
Militarisation of conservation and ‘shoot to kill’ policies
chapter 18|14 pages
Promotion of pro-poor tourism in Southern Africa
chapter 19|12 pages
Contrasting safari and bushmeat hunting in Southern Africa
part V|11 pages
Conclusion