Description:Tourism in protected areas has an essential role in terms of contributing to the financial sustainability of protected areas. In addition, through effective and efficient benefit-sharing, tourism can positively impact numerous stakeholders within and beyond the protected area.Living on the edge: Benefit-Sharing from Protected Area Tourism highlights the complexity of benefit-sharing, the importance of identifying all relevant stakeholders, the challenges of ensuring equity and sustainability and the critical importance of good governance. The evolution of benefit-sharing mechanisms over time also emphasizes a continuing need to evolve and adapt to each unique situation as much evidence indicates that little has changed for those living on the edge. Although this book focuses on benefit-sharing from protected area tourism, it is essential to acknowledge that along with these benefits are costs associated with tourism, including possible increased local prices, loss of access to land, human-wildlife conflict, and other related costs. The contributing authors agree that benefit sharing must include good governance, accountability, equity, transparency, a broad reach of stakeholder engagement, a robust combination of tangible and intangible benefits: with recognition that benefit-sharing systems need to be adaptive and evolve, as needed, according to the relevant situation.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Living on the Edge: Benefit-Sharing from Protected Area Tourism. To get started finding Living on the Edge: Benefit-Sharing from Protected Area Tourism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Living on the Edge: Benefit-Sharing from Protected Area Tourism
Description: Tourism in protected areas has an essential role in terms of contributing to the financial sustainability of protected areas. In addition, through effective and efficient benefit-sharing, tourism can positively impact numerous stakeholders within and beyond the protected area.Living on the edge: Benefit-Sharing from Protected Area Tourism highlights the complexity of benefit-sharing, the importance of identifying all relevant stakeholders, the challenges of ensuring equity and sustainability and the critical importance of good governance. The evolution of benefit-sharing mechanisms over time also emphasizes a continuing need to evolve and adapt to each unique situation as much evidence indicates that little has changed for those living on the edge. Although this book focuses on benefit-sharing from protected area tourism, it is essential to acknowledge that along with these benefits are costs associated with tourism, including possible increased local prices, loss of access to land, human-wildlife conflict, and other related costs. The contributing authors agree that benefit sharing must include good governance, accountability, equity, transparency, a broad reach of stakeholder engagement, a robust combination of tangible and intangible benefits: with recognition that benefit-sharing systems need to be adaptive and evolve, as needed, according to the relevant situation.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Living on the Edge: Benefit-Sharing from Protected Area Tourism. To get started finding Living on the Edge: Benefit-Sharing from Protected Area Tourism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.