Jurassic Wilderness Ecotourism As A Conservation Strategy In Komodo National Park Indonesia

Author : Henning Borchers
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838254023
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jurassic Wilderness: Ecotourism as a Conservation Strategy in Komodo National Park, Indonesia written by Henning Borchers and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study proceeds on Campbell’s (2002) argument that in today’s biodiversity conservation discourse, the traditional exclusionary conservation narrative co-exists with a counter-narrative on sustainable use through ecotourism. Based on the perception of a global biodiversity crisis the conservation landscape has seen the resurgence of the traditional conservation discourse, which reinforces the argument against social objectives of conservation and for an exclusionary conservation approach drawing on the notion of wilderness. Local resource use practices are restricted or prohibited, while ecotourism is considered the most sustainable option. However, as a proposed alternative livelihood strategy for local residents, ecotourism often fails to deliver on claims that it significantly benefits local development, while it may be more conducive to furthering ecological imperatives.Based on an analysis of the management of Komodo National Park, Indonesia, and the development of communities within the Park, this study argues that ecotourism may only be a politically attractive slogan that provides conservation agencies with the political and economic justification for an exclusionary protected area management approach. Instead of taking into account economic, social and cultural concerns of local residents, a conservation regime that adopts ecotourism as a conservation strategy may ultimately leave local people struggling to meet their present needs.

Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431539891
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Futures written by Godfrey Baldacchino and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands face one of the most pressing issues of our time: how to balance ecological integrity with economic development and collective quality of life, including the need for social and conservation space. Islands are sites of rich and varied human and ecological diversity, but they are also often characterized by narrow resource bases and dependency on links to the outside world, and by their limited ability to determine the actual character of those links. This volume reviews the challenges of island development and conservation in the Asia–Pacific region. With emphasis on nature reserves and UNESCO World Heritage sites, chapters describe the benefits, barriers, and potential pitfalls in preserving such sites, managing biota, and attracting and controlling tourism. The book also provides a provocative challenge to move beyond the typical concerns of “sustainability” to the more holistic concept of “futurability”, or “future potential” for convivial human–environmental interactions.

Author : Adrian Howkins
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806154748
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Parks beyond the Nation written by Adrian Howkins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,” the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience—an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States. Writer and historian Wallace Stegner once called national parks “America’s best idea.” The contributors to this volume use that exceptionalist claim as a starting point for thinking about an international history of national parks. They explore the historical interactions and influences—intellectual, political, and material—within and between national park systems in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Antarctica, Brazil, and other countries. What is the role of science in the history of these preserves? Of politics? What purposes do they serve: Conservation? Education? Reverence toward nature? Tourist pleasure? People have thought differently about national parks at different times and in different places; and neat physical boundaries have been disrupted by wandering animals, human movements, the spread of disease, and climate change. Viewing parks around the world, at various scales and across national frontiers, these essays offer a panoptic view of the common and contrasting cultural and environmental features of national parks worldwide. If national parks are, as Stegner said, “absolutely American,” they are no less part of the world at large. National Parks beyond the Nation tells us as much about the multifarious and changing ideas of nature and culture as about the framing of those ideas in geographic, temporal, and national terms.

Author : James Higham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136412999
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Issues in Ecotourism written by James Higham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The first book to identify and comprehensively address, hot issues in ecotourism * Written by a team of pre-eminent international contributors including the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand * Incorporates cutting-edge scientific research which exposes the crucial issues

Author : Michael Hitchcock
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 8776940349
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism in Southeast Asia written by Michael Hitchcock and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism in Southeast Asia provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated issues in one of the world's most dynamic tourism destinations. The volume takes a close look at many of the challenges facing Southeast Asian tourism at a critical stage of transition and transformation and following a recent series of crises and disasters. Building on and advancing the path-breaking Tourism in South-East Asia, produced by the same editors in 1993, it adopts a multidisciplinary approach and includes contributions from some of the leading researchers on tourism in Southeast Asia, presenting a number of fresh perspectives.

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Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Indonesia written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia N. Albrecht
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1789245710
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Visitor Experiences in Nature-based Tourism written by Julia N. Albrecht and published by CABI. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the experiences of tourists visiting nature-based destinations, exploring current knowledge and providing insights into conceptual issues through the use of empirical evidence from five continents. Presented as three topics, the contents discuss tourism and naturebased experiences by looking at the role and relevance of nature and the uniqueness of such experiences. The book identifies visitor management challenges and provides explanations for the solutions reached. The final section takes a more overarching destination management perspective that transcends the tourism product or business level and focuses on destination and generic issues like indicators or marketing implications. The book also includes research-based case studies which contribute to an overall understanding of the core issues involved in managing visitor experiences in nature-based tourism.

Author : James B. Murphy
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345130
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Komodo Dragons written by James B. Murphy and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty years have passed since Walter Auffenberg's monumental The Behavioral Ecology of the Komodo Monitor. In the intervening years the populations of Komodo dragons—native only to a handful of islands in southeast Indonesia—have dwindled, sparking intensive conservation efforts. During the last two decades new information about these formidable predators has emerged, and the most important findings are clearly presented here. A memoir from Walter Auffenberg and his son Kurt is followed by the latest information on Komodo dragon biology, ecology, population distribution, and behavior. The second part of the book is dedicated to step-by-step management and conservation techniques, both for wild and captive dragons. This successful model is a useful template for the conservation of other endangered species as well, for, as Kurt and Walter Auffenberg note, “The species may well indeed survive in the wild for generations to come while countless other organisms are lost.”

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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patrimoine Mondial written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book People and Parks written by Michael Wells and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Parks and people