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"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"--

"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"--

Community Based Ecotourism (CBET) is a unique type of tourism which was introduced as a way of alleviating the impact of tourism activities on the environment as well as striking a balance between local people and the natural environment. It is a responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and sustains the well-being of local people implying that there is a necessary social dimension to ecotourism. The results from the review of literature suggest that social capital plays a critical role in the successful CBET ventures. However, most CBET ventures are failing due to a number of problems such as unequal distribution of economic benefits, poor or lack marketing knowledge and poor infrastructure. This paper suggests that, there is a need for government intervention to help CBET ventures for them to be successful. It is argued in the paper that social capital can be a route through which the accumulation of other forms of capital can be achieved and contribute to enhancing sustainable community based ecotourism.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Urban risk and tourism in Africa An overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Contextualising urbanisation, urban risk and tourism -- 3 Urban risk and tourism in sub-Saharan Africa: The state of knowledge -- 4 The knowledge gap on urban risk and urban tourism -- 5 Structure of the book -- References -- Theme 1: Urban tourism and environmental pollution risks -- Chapter 2: Examining 'toxic tourism' as a new form of alternative urban tourism and environmental justice The case of the South Durban Industrial Basin, South Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Linking toxic tourism to township tourism for environmental justice -- 3 Environmental justice and toxic tourism in South Durban -- 4 Methodology -- 5 Results -- 6 Discussion, conclusion and recommendations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Waste management and urban risk in Livingstone City, Zambia The sustainability of the hospitality sector -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sustainability and tourism -- 2.1 Tourism activities and tourism waste -- 3 Methodological underpinnings -- 3.1 Study setting -- 3.2 Research approach, data collection and analysis -- 4 Results and discussion -- 4.1 Waste management in Livingstone -- 4.2 Disposal of waste by the hospitality sector -- 4.2.1 Accommodation waste from toiletries and cleaning agents -- 4.2.2 Furniture and linen -- 4.2.3 Food and beverage -- 4.2.4 Plastic bags, styrofoam, tetra packs and office waste -- 4.2.5 Challenges of waste recycling -- 4.3 Moving towards reduced urban risk for sustainable urban tourism in Zambia -- 5 Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: The political economy of unplanned urban sprawl, waste and tourism development in Ghana -- 1 Introduction.