
Nature-based tourism and ecotourism
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.
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) contributes to the development of these arrangements by research and consultancy. WUR has experience with projects in countries like Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Namibia, Guinea Bissau and Botswana in Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal and Mongolia in Asia, the Caribbean, Costa Rica as well as European countries (the Netherlands, Croatia, Spain and Portugal).
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- Sustainable High Return Ecotourism
Publications
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Selling the End of Nature: Ecotourism in the ‘Anthropocene'
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Neoliberal Conservation
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology / , Aldenderfer, M.. - : Oxford University Press - ISBN 9780190854584 -
The Ecolaboratory : Environmental Governance and Economic Development in Costa Rica
Tucson : University of Arizona Press - ISBN 9780816540112 - p. -
"Today is party A, tomorrow is party B" : The Elmina 2015 Strategy and the politics of tourism-led local economic development planning in Ghana
In: The Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Africa / , Novelli, M., Adu-Ampong, E.A., Ribeiro, M.A.. - London : Routledge - ISBN 9781138496088 - p. 199 - 219. -
Environmentality, green grabbing, and neoliberal conservation : The ambiguous role of ecotourism in the Green Life privatised nature reserve, Sumatra, Indonesia
Journal of Sustainable Tourism (2020). - ISSN 0966-9582 -
Key concepts, disciplines, and fields in communication for development and social change
In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change / , Servaes, Jan. - : Springer Nature Singapore - ISBN 9789811520136 - p. 29 - 59. -
Ecotourism and conservation under COVID-19 and beyond
ATLAS Tourism and Leisure Review 2020 (2020)2. - ISSN 2468-6719 - p. 42 - 50. -
Slow adventure: from natural concept to consumer desire
Sundsvall : ETOUR / Mid-Sweden University (ETOUR Rapport 2020:2) - p. -
The pebble in the shoe : Gods on the run, the public, and the politics of life on the Nayarit coast, Mexico
Journal of Rural Studies 78 (2020). - ISSN 0743-0167 - p. 292 - 303. -
Science for Success—A Conflict of Interest? Researcher Position and Reflexivity in Socio-Ecological Research for CBNRM in Namibia
Society & Natural Resources (2020). - ISSN 0894-1920