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- Convenors:
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Roger Norum
(University of Oulu)
Julia Lajus (HSE University)
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- Format:
- Panel
- Sessions:
- Monday 25 October, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
Speaking across disciplines, this panel will critically engage with the nexus of contemporary conservation practices, their impact on nature tourism, and the ways in which these are understood, implemented and at times resisted in remote areas of the planet.
Long Abstract:
In some of the world's least developed and under-connected areas, tourism is often indicated as a key tool for sustainable economic development. Nature tourism has in past decades also become a primary mode for creation and maintenance of protected areas across much of the globe. And yet, while conservationists and scholars have frequently criticized radical initiatives of tourism development for their negative outcomes on local communities and their environments, many policymakers and members of civil society continue to often uncritically embrace neoliberal development strategies which proffer tourism and nature conservation as a panacea for remote communities. To address this paradox, this panel will critically engage with the nexus of contemporary conservation practices, their impact on nature tourism, and the ways in which they are understood, implemented and at times resisted. The panel thus foregrounds transdisciplinary perspectives, addressing conceptual and methodological pathways for bringing studies of conservation practices and nature tourism together with critical research on human-environment relations. The research presented pays particular attention to innovative and participatory methods in order to consider how conservation efforts engage ecological-environmental processes at both local and global scales.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Monday 25 October, 2021, -Paper short abstract:
The SDG model has redefined growth agendas,policy aims and benchmarks for assessing development success worldwide.This paper would analyse eco tourism in Manas National Park(UNESCO heritage site listen in the year 1985) and the need of stake holders in identifying the goals.
Paper long abstract:
This paper would analyse eco tourism in Manas National park and the need of involving the stakeholders in identifying goals,objectives and effective management of this world heritage site located in remote Assam.Further this will highlight why involving local communities like Bodos are so crucial for heritage management in this case besides promoting local rights access to critical resources.This paper will further stress upon four critical dimensions such as wildlife conservation,community conservation,alternative livelihood and ecotourism in the backdrop of SDGs.
Key words:Assam,Bodos,Eco tourism,India,Manas National Park,sustainable community.
Paper short abstract:
This paper addresses how the focus of the current economy on the commodification of intangible assets has affected the way natural spaces are envisaged as goods and services that bring deliver products to tourists through brand and marketing strategies.
Paper long abstract:
In recent decades, so-called ‘nature tourism’, linked to the diverse lifestyles and expectations of a demanding consumer in search of the manifold experiences offered by the market, has steadily increased. The new rules of engagement of the neoliberal economy have led to privatisation, commercialisation, and the deregulation of boundaries between civil society, the state and the market. This has driven three interrelated processes which have also affected natural spaces: the anxiety to be recognised; a race for the ‘production’ of intangible assets; and an obsession with branding. As a result, remaining part of the economic playing field appears to have occupied all policy-making, and no cultural practise seems to have escaped this new market-logic towards intangible assets. With it, the creation of brands has generated a competition in which each region seeks for badges of identity with the aim of offering a distinct and attractive product, developing around their chosen brand a powerful marketing of ‘the natural’. In this paper we present a comparative analysis of the development of programs, brands and logos within the network of nature reserves of three regions of Spain: Andalusia, Catalonia and the Valencian Community. In this way, we will describe the commercialisation of a product converted and then classified as ‘natural’ through the branding process, and analyse the implementation of programs in these three territories, comparing their ethos and norms. Finally, we will examine the different operating strategies and actions taken to achieve their objectives.