Prideaux Rainforest Tourism, Conservation and Management

Challenges for Sustainable Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-136-20109-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 342 Seiten

Reihe: The Earthscan Forest Library

Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion. Yet they have a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and providing other ecosystem services. Rainforests are also attractive tourist spaces and where they have been used as a tourism resource they have generated significant income for local communities.

However, not all use of rainforests as a tourism resource has been sustainable. This book argues that sustainability must be the foundation on which tourism use of this complex but ultimately fragile ecosystem is built upon. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective, incorporating rainforest science, management and tourism issues. The book is organized into four sections commencing with 'Tourism in rainforest regions', followed by 'Threats to rainforest tourism' and 'The development and management of rainforest experiences', and finally 'Wildlife and rainforest tourism'.

Each major rainforest region is covered, including the Amazon, Central America, Africa, Australia and south-east Asia, in the context of a specific issue. For example, rainforests in Papua New Guinea are examined in the context of community-based ecotourism development, while the rainforests in Borneo are discussed in an examination of wildlife issues. Other issues covered in this manner include governance, empowerment issues for rainforest peoples and climate change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prideaux, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Forstwirtschaft, Forstwissenschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Wälder
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Tourism in Rain Forest Regions

1. Factors Governing the Development of Tourism in Rainforest Regions

Bruce Prideaux

2. Tropical Rainforest Ecology: Implications for Tourism Development

Bruce Prideaux

3. National Parks, Rainforests and Tourism in Australia: An Historical Perspective

Warwick Frost

Part 2: Threats to Rainforest Tourism

4. Climate Change Impacts and Response Strategies for Rainforest Tourism: Cairns Case Study

Robyn F. Wilson

5. Climate Change and Rainforest Tourism in Australia

Stephen M. Turton

6. Trees, Tourists and Trade-offs: The Political Ecology of Rainforest Tourism, Forest Clearance and Biodiversity Conservation in Madagascar

Ivan R. Scales

Part 3: The Development and Management of Rainforest Experiences

7. The Lamington National Park: A Contrasts Approach to Rainforest Tourism Research

Noel Scott, Don Getz, Steve Noakes and Eric Laws

8. Visitor Motivations, Expectations and Satisfaction in a Rainforest Context: Implications for Tourism Management

Jennifer L. Hill and Georgina Gough

9. Ecotourism: A New Challenge for Protected Rainforest Areas in Chile

Mirko Vera Campos, Noel Scott and Noreen Breakey

10. Enabling Ecotourism: Principles, Challenges and Achievements from Tambopata, Peru

Jennifer Hill, Ross Hill, Nicolette de Sausmarez

11. Developing Backpacker Tourism in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Adding Value to the Forest

Cristina Rodrigues and Bruce Prideaux

12. The Use of Mayan Rainforests for Ecotourism Development: An Empowerment Approach for Local Communities

Adrian Mendoza-Ramos and Bruce Prideaux

13. Opportunities for Developing Tourism in Cockpit County, Jamaica

Novadene Miller

14. Community Based Ecotourism: Opportunities and Difficulties for Local Communities and Link to Conservation

Hana Sakata and Bruce Prideaux

15. Rainforests and Rural Village Ecotourism Venture in Papua New Guinea: A Case Study

Grace Guaigu

16. Indigenous Peoples and Rainforest Tourism: Canopy Walkways as Tourist Attractions

Heather Zeppel

Part 4: Wildlife and Rainforest Tourism

17. Rainforest Wildlife: A Key Element in Sabah’s Destination Appeal

Fiffy Hanisdah Saikim and Bruce Prideaux

18. Implications of Invasive Alien Species for Rainforest Tourism: A Case Study on Feral Pigs in Australia’s Wet Tropics World Heritage Area

Kana Koichi

19. Rainforest Primate Tourism in Uganda: Successes, Challenges and the Future

Dan Musinguzi, Eddy K. Tukamushaba, Celestine Katongole and Joseph Obua

20. The Complexities of Community Based Tourism: how External Forces Influence the Sustainability of Bird

Watching Tourism in the Remote Arfak Mountains of West Papua

Sharon Harwood and Richard Noske

21. Findings and Research Issues

Bruce Prideaux

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Prideaux is Professor of Marketing and Tourism Management at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.