Tourism, Conservation and Development
Tourism is increasingly put forward by international, national and local nature conservation and development organizations, governments and the tourism industry as a promising mechanism to resolve societal problems related to the conservation-development nexus. As a consequence new institutional arrangements, policies and practices emerge at different levels of scale (from the local to the global) in various developing countries.
However, many of these are neither theoretically nor empirically judged on their merits and contributions to sustainable development. This research is a collaborative effort to address current knowledge gaps in sustainable tourism development in a number of developing countries (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Namibia) as well as European countries (the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal).
Research projects on Tourism, Conservation and Development
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Productive Conflicts in Conservation TourismBy Arjaan Pellis.
This study explores the performativity of conflicts in the context of conservation tourism, a policy intervention that aims at... -
Tracing Conservation Finances as Global FlowsBy Nowella Anyango van Zwieten, MSc
The greatest contemporary challenge in nature conservation is to sustain and increase finances. Consequently,... -
Gorillascapes: re-negotiating conservation, tourism and rural development at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, South Western UgandaBy Christine Ampumuza MSc.
Historically, the Bwindi forest has been an arena of controversies. Although these controversies initially took the shape... -
Wildlife Conservation and Development: An analysis of the reintroduction of Sport Hunting in UgandaBy Amos Ochieng, MSc.
The ‘new’ sport hunting was introduced in Uganda as a ‘modern’ form of governance, where managing... -
Tourism partnerships, conservation and livelihoods in Amboseli: A Landscape governance perspectiveBy Tabitha Mugo
Conservation in Kenya has evolved from a focus on protected areas to an approach that also includes community-based and market-based...
Staff and PhD Candidates
Recent publications on Tourism, Conservation and Development
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The battle over the benefits: analysing two sport hunting policy arrangements in UgandaOryx 52 (2018)2. - ISSN 0030-6053 - p. 359 - 368.
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Conservation tourism and landscape governance in Kenya: the interdependency of three conservation NGOsJournal of Ecotourism 14 (2015)2-3. - ISSN 1472-4049 - p. 130 - 144.
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Gorilla Tourism in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda: An Actor-Network PerspectiveSociety & Natural Resources 27 (2014)6. - ISSN 0894-1920 - p. 588 - 601.
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The emergence of institutional innovations in tourism: the evolution of the African Wildlife Foundation's tourism conservation enterprisesJournal of Sustainable Tourism 23 (2015)1. - ISSN 0966-9582 - p. 104 - 125.