Misganaw, Assegid Ayele (2011) Ecotourism as a Sustainable Development Option: Case Study From Bale Mountains National Park. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
This thesis has attempted to uncover how ecotourism practices in BMNP proved to provide livelihood options for the local communities; and emerged to be a tool for biodiversity conservation. The study has carried out in BMNP considering Dinisho Wereda and four kebels as sample. The rationale for the selection of Dinisho Wereda and the four kebeles is the fact that the Wereda has better tourism facilities, easily accessible; and the significant economic and environmental implications of ecotourism have been realizable and visible in this Wereda. The study has employed multiple methodologies. Thus, qualitative and quantitative research strategies; household survey design; and multi stage, purposive, and simple random sampling techniques have been used. The findings of the study has revealed that the baggage of local communities dependence on unsustainable use of the natural resources of park continue to exist. The local communities have exhaustively depended on agriculture as the main stay. Thus, ecotourism has hardly been emerged as an alternative livelihood for the local communities. Whereas the income generated from ecotourism has not yet been reinvested for community development and natural resource conservation. Biodiversity conservation has still been embedded within financial shortfalls. Ecotourism development in BMNP is not claimed to be economically and environmentally sound. It has been recommended that while carrying out any projects in BMNP where peoples’ and resource interaction is high, the local communities interests should not be marred as a benefactor. Ecotourism activities should acquire specific policy guide lines and institutional basements. The development of ecotourism should explicitly recognize the sustenance of natural resources in reconciliation with the economic wellbeing of the local communities.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ecotourism, biodiversity, livelihoods, income, sustainability and conservation |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Tim Khabala |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2018 12:02 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2018 12:02 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/5793 |
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