Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa: Contemporary Issues and Approaches (Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment)

This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution, and redistribution. While Southern Africa is home to important biodiversity, pristine woodlands, and grasslands, and is a habitat for important wildlife species, it is also a land of contestations over its natural resources with a complex historical legacy and a wide variety of competing and conflicting issues surrounding race, cultural and traditional practices, and neoliberalism. Drawing on insights from conservation, environmental, and tourism experts, this volume presents the nexus between land conflicts and conservation in the region. The chapters reveal the hegemony of humans on land and associated resources including wildlife and minerals. By using social science approaches, the book unites environmental, scientific, social, and political issues, as it is imperative we understand the holistic nature of land conflicts in nature-based tourism. Discussing the management theories and approaches to community-based tourism in communities where there are or were land conflicts is critical to understanding the current state and future of tourism in African rural spaces. This volume determines the extent to which land reform impacts community-based tourism in Africa to develop resilient destination strategies and shares solutions to existing land conflicts to promote conservation and nature-based tourism. The book will be of great interest to students, academics, development experts, and policymakers in the field of conservation, tourism geography, sociology, development studies, land use, and environmental management and African studies. This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution and redistribution. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Illustrations 9 List of Contributors 10 Acknowledgements 14 Chapter 1 Land conflicts in Southern Africa: The sustainability of tourism and conservation 16 Part 1 Land governance and sustainable tourism management 30 Chapter 2 An alternative governance approach towards addressing the intersection between mining developments and impacts on tourism and conservation sites in Southern Africa 32 Chapter 3 The deepening challenge of governance of wildlife and land issues in the context of rising citizen participation in South Africa 48 Chapter 4 Leadership and governance intricacies in Communally-Owned Protected Areas: The case of Somkhanda Game Reserve, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa 66 Part 2 Managing natural disasters and land reform tourism crises 84 Chapter 5 Complex effects of natural disasters on protected areas: the case of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique 86 Chapter 6 The challenges and prospects of community-based tourism after Zimbabwe’s land reform programme in the Midlands Province 100 Chapter 7 A review of post-restitution land rights agreement conflicts and their resolution at & Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 116 Chapter 8 Environmental Operational Research for sustainable tourism and conflict management in community-based natural resources management 134 Part 3 Managing land use, access, and benefit-sharing conflicts 152 Chapter 9 The state, community-based tourism, and wildlife user rights in tourism concessions in Botswana 154 Chapter 10 COVID-19, conservation, and tourism in Namibia’s Conservancies: Socioeconomic and land-use impacts 165 Chapter 11 Conflicts between conservation and community livelihoods: Lessons from KwaNibela and iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 180 Chapter 12 The partially transformed frontier: Aspirations, limitations, and tensions of transfrontier conservation in the Maloti-Drakensberg 196 Part 4 Conclusion 212 Chapter 13 The future of community-based tourism amid socioeconomic and political conflicts in Southern Africa 214 Index 226 Land,conflicts;,sustainable,tourism;,wildlife;,Leadership;,Somkhanda,Game,Reserve;,KwaZulu,Natal;,South,Africa;,Zimbabwe's,land;,COVID-19;,Conflicts;,conservation,and,community,livelihoods Land conflicts,sustainable tourism,wildlife,Leadership,Somkhanda Game Reserve,KwaZulu Natal,South Africa,Zimbabwe's land,COVID-19,Conflicts,conservation and community livelihoods "This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution and redistribution. While Southern Africa is home to important biodiversity, pristine woodlands and grasslands, and is a habitat for important wildlife species, it is also a land of contestations over its natural resources with a complex historical legacy and a wide variety of competing and conflicting issues surrounding race, cultural and traditional practices and neoliberalism. Drawing on insights from conservation, environmental and tourism experts, this volume presents the nexus between land conflicts and conservation in the region. The chapters reveal the hegemony of humans on land and associated resources including wildlife and minerals. By using social science approaches, the book unites environmental, scientific, social and political issues as it is imperative we understand the holistic nature of land conflicts in nature-based tourism. Discussing the management theories and approaches to community-based tourism in communities where there is or were land conflicts is critical to understanding the current state and future of tourism in African rural spaces. This volume determines the extent to which land reform impacts community-based tourism in Africa to develop resilient destination strategies and shares solutions to existing land conflicts to promote conservation and nature-based tourism. The book will be of great interest to students, academics, development experts, and policymakers in the field of conservation, tourism geography, sociology, development studies, land use and environmental management and African studies"-- Provided by publisher