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No abstract available. / Thesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.

Over-fishing and poor resource management in the northwest Atlantic have led to a drastic decline in the fishery, forcing many communities in eastern Canada to turn to new sources of livelihood. Residents on the Lower North Shore of Quebec are responding to the fisheries crisis by identifying alternative economic development strategies, including a small scale ecotourism industry centred around some of the oldest seabird sanctuaries in North America. Policy makers and communities hope that this type of tourism will generate revenue and employment while also protecting the natural areas upon which local residents depend. Unfortunately, little is known at this time about the ability of ecotourism to live up to this promise. In this context, the central goal of this thesis is to examine the feasibility ecotourism to act as a mechanism for sustainable economic development In order to meet this objective, this research draws upon and refines past attempts by geographers to grapple with the links between the tourism industry and destination development. The thesis shows that the dominant theoretical frameworks of the 1980s cannot provide us with an adequate understanding of the rapidly evolving tourism industry and its role in regional development processes and protected area management. Instead, this thesis adopts post-Fordist theories of tourism development to conduct a microscale analysis on the impacts and underlying structure of the ecotourism industry and its linkages to protected areas and local communities in the region. By synthesizing quantitative and qualitative evidence in the realist tradition, a systematic methodology is generated to argue that a bottom-up, multi-scale network approach provides the greatest potential for promoting more sustainable forms of tourism development.

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In recent years the use of tourism as a development strategy by third world governments has increased, resulting in the intersection of international tourism and local agricultural strategies. The aim of this thesis is to critically assess the impact of tourism development on local agriculture in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. More specifically, the study appraises the current state of tourism and agriculture in the Okavango Delta, assesses the social, economic and environmental effects of tourism development on the Okavango Delta and its communities, examines local agricultural production and consumption patterns, assesses the patterns of supply and demand of food in the region, and evaluates the impact of tourism on local subsistence agriculture, while making use of both qualitative and quantitative data sources. The Okavango Delta region is faced with several socio-economic problems. These include high unemployment levels, unequal regional development, income inequalities and extreme levels of poverty. 'Rural-urban' migration by local subsistence farmers in search of formal employment opportunities has risen steadily since the early 1990s, resulting in unprecedented social changes to the inhabitants of the Delta, and the abandonment of traditional farming practices. This, together with the limited interaction between the local population and tourism industry, is increasingly leading to tension between local and foreign parties in the region. The large proportion of foreign owned tourist facilities and foreign investment results in major economic leakages, and the exclusion of Motswana from any form of meaningful participation in the tourism industry. The presence of foreign tourists in the Delta enforces the need for imports, increasingly damaging local agricultural production as both production and consumption becomes imported. If tourism is to be of any benefit to the local population in the Okavango Delta, there has to be local involvement and ownership. The fostering of linkages between tourism and other sectors, particularly agriculture, is imperative in attempting to bring about socio-economic growth in this region. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.

Bibliography: leaves 378-402. / xviii, 402 leaves : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Explores the status and nature of interpretation within the Australian whale watching industry, on both a national scale and as it is practiced at three diverse case study sites along the southern coast, and develops strategies which may enable this form of tourism to reach it's highest educative potential / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geographical and Environmental Studies, 2000

Orientador: Sonia Regina da Cal Seixas / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Cienciaqs Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T18:22:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Soares_CristianedeSouza_D.pdf: 5578782 bytes, checksum: 5c0bb6a82caf0e63c0cdb0aab45d6f6d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A relação turismo-meio ambiente-comunidade-sustentabilidade local vem se colocando cada vez mais permeada por conflitos, de tal modo, ser preciso empreender ações direcionadas ao equilíbrio entre a preservação cultural, ambiental, a qualidade de vida e a construção de alternativas econômicas de base local. A discussão sobre turismo x apropriação do espaço x qualidade de vida assume contornos relevantes à gestão pública municipal das cidades turísticas que possuem grande dificuldade para lidar com os problemas oriundos do excessivo fluxo de pessoas. O estudo de caso de um destino turístico litorâneo do estado do Rio de Janeiro, Saquarema, assume a legitimidade para a avaliação do paradigma da sustentabilidade, estabelecendo estratégias para a garantia da integridade do patrimônio ambiental e cultural local ancorando a formulação de políticas urbanas em bases mais sustentáveis. Os resultados alcançados na pesquisa nos conduziram à conclusão que a manutenção da cultura e da identidade local são primordiais à construção do comportamento do indivíduo-cidadão, pois estes se mostram como elementos estruturantes da coletividade que se constitui base primária para a busca da qualidade de vida. / Abstract: The relation local tourism-half environment-community-support comes if more placing each time confused by conflicts, in such way, necessary being to undertake actions directed to the balance between the cultural, ambient preservation, the quality of life and the construction of economic alternatives of local base. The quarrel on tourism x appropriation of space x quality of life assumes excellent contours to the municipal public administration of the tourist cities that possess great difficulty to the deal with deriving problems of the extreme flow of people. The study case of a littoral tourist destination of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Saquarema, it assumes the legitimacy for the evaluation of the paradigm of the support, establishing strategies for the guarantee of the integrity of the ambient, patrimony and cultural place anchoring the formularization of urban politics in more sustainable bases. The results reached in the research had lead in them to the conclusion of that maintenance of the culture and local identity is primordial to the construction of the behavior of the individual-citizen, therefore these if they show as basics elements of the collective that if constitutes primary base for the search of the quality life. / Doutorado / Aspectos Sociais de Sustentabilidade e Conservação / Doutor em Ambiente e Sociedade

La massification du tourisme s’est accompagnée d’une augmentation et d’une transformation morphologique importantes de l’immobilier touristique. En Wallonie, ce processus s’est exprimé par un écrémage des formes traditionnelles d’hébergement (l’hôtellerie notamment) et par le développement en dehors des agglomérations d’éléments bâtis de grande capacité aux formes et aux matériaux les plus divers. Parmi ceux-ci figurent les établissements de tourisme social, les campings, les villages de vacances et les parcs résidentiels de week-end. <p><p>Toutefois, à côté de l’offre officielle subsiste, dans une sorte d’invisibilité, un grand nombre d’infrastructures. S’y sont développées des morphologies hétéroclites et vernaculaires, en totale illégalité vis-à-vis des normes et des réglementations en vigueur en matière d’urbanisme, de confort, voire d’hygiène et de sécurité. Cette situation pour le moins chaotique et mal connue interpelle car elle constitue un obstacle majeur à tout suivi, statistique notamment, et gêne les tentatives d’élaboration de politiques touristiques et territoriales. Consacrée aux hébergements de grande capacité de la Wallonie, cette thèse invite donc à la compréhension d’un phénomène conflictuel et particulièrement confus. <p><p>Plusieurs démarches sont ici suivies :la reconstitution de l’écheveau complexe du système de production des hébergements de grande capacité ;puis, l’analyse des ressorts politiques et juridiques qui autorisent le développement désordonné d’une offre essentiellement de nature résidentielle. Enfin, à partir d’une typologie s’affranchissant des catégories classiques d’hébergement, la recherche amène à redéfinir les différents types d’hébergement selon leur mode d’occupation. Une approche d’autant plus nécessaire que la limite entre le touristique et le non-touristique est de plus en plus perméable.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Many developing countries, rich with natural resources, have turned to tourism as a source of national growth and subsequently an increasing amount of local communities are being "developed". Despite its importance to developing countries, tourism has been covered scarcely in the literature on development studies. Local communities that find themselves in a situation having to deal with tourism related development, face many challenges. Contrary to previous work on development which considered poor local communities a threat to the natural environment, current views emphasise the role of the community in bringing about participation, conservation and consequently Sustainable Development. Therefore, if tourism can be seen as a possible path to Sustainable Development, the role of the local community in its development is of vital importance. This research investigates the role of the local community in integrating conservation in tourism related development by means of a case study on Apo Island. / DEVELOPMENT STUDIES / MA(SS)(DEV. STUD)