ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates the rationale for conflict and conflict resolution scenarios with a particular focus on the role of recreation and tourism. It investigates the principle of sustainable development (SD) and its associated principles, including sustainable tourism and ecotourism. Protected Areas (PAs) designation and management is rife with various types of conflicts. These conflicts involve issues such as how to use natural resources, how to distribute the benefits and burdens that arise from PA management, and how to protect the property rights of land and resources within PAs. The tourism industry also needs to undergo a sustainability test to realize sustainable tourism. SD requires the integration of environmental, social and economic factors in decision making, the sustainable use of natural resources and the realization of intra- and intergenerational equity. The institutional theory of statutory interpretation states that the institutional design of legislatures, agencies and courts matters when there is a need for statutory interpretation.
