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Book Ecotourism and Livelihoods Among the Maasai in Ngorongoro  Tanzania

Download or read book Ecotourism and Livelihoods Among the Maasai in Ngorongoro Tanzania written by Kokel L. Melubo and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study provides firsthand information on how eco-cultural tourism contributes in improving the social economic well being of livestock keepers in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), Tanzania. The work brings forth the current opportunities and challenges of ecotourism in Maasailand. The study begins by identifying the current eco-cultural initiatives practiced by local communities in the NCA. It also examines factors that drive communities to opt for tourism enterprises as alternative livelihood strategies in the area. The work further analyses barriers that preclude community participation in ecotourism projects. The question on how eco- cultural tourism could become an effective means of development and conservation is also examined. The study acknowledges that Ngorongoro, Tanzania has abundance of opportunities of ecotourism industry. But its effective practice and implementation is not promising due to lack of commitment of supportive authorities and poor planning strategy with combination of integrated conservation and development. Thus to run ecotourism project properly, principles and theories of ecotourism be considered a major base.

Book Selling the Serengeti

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Gardner
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2016-02-15
  • ISBN : 0820345083
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Selling the Serengeti written by Benjamin Gardner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game-hunting companies. It looks at two major discourses and policies surrounding biodiversity conservation, the championing of community-based conservation and the neoliberal focus on private investment in tourism, and their profound effect on Maasai culture and livelihoods. This ethnographic study explores how these changing social and economic relationships and forces remake the terms through which state institutions and local people engage with foreign investors, communities, and their own territories. The book highlights how these new tourism arrangements change the shape and meaning of the nation-state and the village and in the process remake cultural belonging and citizenship. Benjamin Gardner’s experiences in Tanzania began during a study abroad trip in 1991. His stay led to a relationship with the nation and the Maasai people in Loliondo lasting almost twenty years; it also marked the beginning of his analysis and ethnographic research into social movements, market-led conservation, and neoliberal development around the Serengeti.

Book Staying Maasai

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  • Author : Katherine Homewood
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2009-02-08
  • ISBN : 0387874925
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Staying Maasai written by Katherine Homewood and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-08 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in microcosm the paradox so widely seen across sub Saharan Africa, where the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations live alongside some of the world’s most outstanding biodiversity resources. Over the last decade or so, community conservation has emerged as a way out of poverty and environmental problems for these rural populations, focusing on the sustainable use of wildlife to generate income that could underpin equally sustainable development. Given the enduring interest in East African wildlife, and the very large tourist income it generates, these communities and ecosystems seem a natural case for green development based on community conservation. This volume is focused on the livelihoods of the Maasai in two different countries - Kenya and Tanzania. This cross-border comparative analysis looks at what people do, why they choose to do it, with what success and with what implications for wildlife. The comparative approach makes it possible to unpack the interaction of conservation and development, to identify the main drivers of livelihoods change and the main outcomes of wildlife conservation or other land use policies, while controlling for confounding factors in these semi-arid and perennially variable systems. This synthesis draws out lessons about the successes and failures of community conservation-based approach to development in Maasailand under different national political and economic contexts and different local social and historical particularities.

Book Tourism Growth for Sustainable Development in Tanzania

Download or read book Tourism Growth for Sustainable Development in Tanzania written by Kassim Kulindwa and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pastoral Man in the Garden of Eden

Download or read book Pastoral Man in the Garden of Eden written by Kaj Århem and published by University of Uppsala Department of Cultural Anthropology. This book was released on 1985 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report on the Maasai semi-nomadic cattle herders in the nature conservation rural area of the Ngorongoro in Tanzania - examines their relations with the state, historical background to wildlife conservation in this area, land utilization and its environmental impact; looks at living conditions of the Maasai, conflicting views on resources development and conservation, etc.; discusses government policy guidelines for an integrated approach. Graphs, maps, photographs, references, statistical tables.

Book Maasailand Ecology

    Book Details:
  • Author : K. M. Homewood
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1991-10-24
  • ISBN : 0521400023
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Maasailand Ecology written by K. M. Homewood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the perceived problems, ecological facts and possible management solutions behind the case of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Book Ambivalence and Contradiction

Download or read book Ambivalence and Contradiction written by A. Z. Mattee and published by IIED. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trade offs in Conservation

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  • Author : Nigel Leader-Williams
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2011-06-13
  • ISBN : 1444348108
  • Pages : 429 pages

Download or read book Trade offs in Conservation written by Nigel Leader-Williams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that trade-offs can be very important for conservationists. Its various chapters show how and why trade-offs are made, and why conservationists need to think very hard about what, if anything, to do about them. The book argues that conservationists must carefully weigh up, and be explicit about, the trade-offs that they make every day in deciding what to save. Key Features: Discusses the wider non-biological issues that surround making decisions about which species and biogeographic areas to prioritise for conservation Focuses on questions such as: What are these wider issues that are influencing the decisions we make? What factors need to be included in our assessment of trade-offs? What package of information and issues do managers need to consider in making a rational decision? Who should make such decisions? Part of the Conservation Science and Practice book series This volume is of interest to policy-makers, researchers, practitioners and postgraduate students who are concerned about making decisions that include recognition of trade-offs in conservation planning.

Book The Anthropology of Sustainability

Download or read book The Anthropology of Sustainability written by Marc Brightman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a product of concern about global environmental degradation, rising social inequalities, and dispossession is presented as a key concept. The contributors explore the opportunities to engage with questions of sustainability and to redefine the concept of sustainability in anthropological terms.

Book Ecotourism in Sub Saharan Africa

Download or read book Ecotourism in Sub Saharan Africa written by Kenneth Backman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first mention in the academic literature, ecotourism has been endorsed by NGOs and governments as the most environmentally sound and locally beneficial method of tourist development. Over the last thirty years sub-Saharan Africa has adopted ecotourism as the primary focus for tourism development; research into this has demonstrated mixed results. In this publication, we seek to explore the actual outcomes for African countries that have developed their tourism policy around the principals and values of ecotourism. The sheer scope and magnitude of the task means that a complete evaluation of ecotourism in Africa is impossible. Instead, included here are spot assessments of various aspects of ecotourism related to conservation, policy development, environment, governance, community and indigenous peoples in southern Africa. The studies cover a wide array of countries, including Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Though this is only the beginning of a needed long term evaluation of the positives and negatives of ecotourism, it provides a starting point from which to move forward. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ecotourism.

Book Serengeti IV

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  • Author : Anthony R. E. Sinclair
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-05-11
  • ISBN : 022619616X
  • Pages : 854 pages

Download or read book Serengeti IV written by Anthony R. E. Sinclair and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast savannas and great migrations of the Serengeti conjure impressions of a harmonious and balanced ecosystem. But in reality, the history of the Serengeti is rife with battles between human and non-human nature. In the 1890s and several times since, the cattle virus rinderpest—at last vanquished in 2008—devastated both domesticated and wild ungulate populations, as well as the lives of humans and other animals who depended on them. In the 1920s, tourists armed with the world’s most expensive hunting gear filled the grasslands. And in recent years, violence in Tanzania has threatened one of the most successful long-term ecological research centers in history. Serengeti IV, the latest installment in a long-standing series on the region’s ecology and biodiversity, explores the role of our species as a source of both discord and balance in Serengeti ecosystem dynamics. Through chapters charting the complexities of infectious disease transmission across populations, agricultural expansion, and the many challenges of managing this ecosystem today, this book shows how the people and landscapes surrounding crucial protected areas like Serengeti National Park can and must contribute to Serengeti conservation. In order to succeed, conservation efforts must also focus on the welfare of indigenous peoples, allowing them both to sustain their agricultural practices and to benefit from the natural resources provided by protected areas—an undertaking that will require the strengthening of government and education systems and, as such, will present one of the greatest conservation challenges of the next century.

Book Pastoralism  Conservation and Development in the Greater Serengeti Region

Download or read book Pastoralism Conservation and Development in the Greater Serengeti Region written by M. S. Parkipuny and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Evolution and Impacts of Community based Ecotourism in Northern Tanzania

Download or read book The Evolution and Impacts of Community based Ecotourism in Northern Tanzania written by Fred Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can community-based ecotourism in northern Tanzania contribute to both conservation and rural development? This paper explores themes relevant not only to development and conservation, but also to natural resource governance and rural livelihoods in East Africa. More and more rural communities in northern Tanzania are signing agreements with private companies to develop ecotourism businesses on their land. These agreements offer important new economic opportunities. But the ability of local people to benefit from them can be compromised. The struggles and conflicts that arise illustrate some of the fundamental governance challenges to community-based natural resource management and ecotourism in Tanzania.

Book Poverty  Pastoralism and Policy in Ngorongoro

Download or read book Poverty Pastoralism and Policy in Ngorongoro written by Naomi Kipuri and published by IIED. This book was released on 2008 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wildlif e  Conservation and Game viewing Tourism in Tanzania

Download or read book Wildlif e Conservation and Game viewing Tourism in Tanzania written by Steve Curry and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Status and Perspectives of Maasai Women in Ngorongoro Conservation Area  Tanzania

Download or read book Status and Perspectives of Maasai Women in Ngorongoro Conservation Area Tanzania written by H. Jo Albers and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: