Social exchange and structuralist-constructivism approaches for enhanced ecotourism and food security in wildlife-agrarian mosaic landscapes: insights from eastern Zambia
by Vincent R. Nyirenda; Christopher Kaoma; Sinyala Nyirongo; Chisala A. Lwali; Chansa Chomba
International Journal of Tourism Policy (IJTP), Vol. 7, No. 2, 2017

Abstract: Adaptive capacities of local communities and other stakeholders such as wildlife managers and tour operators to counteract environmental stressors such as poaching and over-hunting that affect the quality of ecotourism in the African protected area systems are rarely studied. We investigated local structures such as informal and formal rules, norms, challenges and institutional organs that govern community operations in the context of social-ecological systems, and how strategies rooting from the theoretical constructs would help confront conflicts associated with contemporary ecotourism. Systemic appraisals by use of semi-structured questionnaires were employed and administered to 131 respondents, with the help of trained field assistants. The study revealed that poverty and weak institutional governance in ever-growing human-population landscapes underlie escalation of the conflicting multiple land uses and degrade the ecotourism potential. Low levels of social capital networking and cohesions, reflecting fallible local social exchange, constrained local adaptive capacities for ecotourism.

Online publication date: Fri, 21-Jul-2017

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