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.
