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The importance and implication of nature conservation in South Africa’s national parks

Climate change has become a global environmental problem for multiple countries and it is affecting the local communities in a severe way.  Because of the increasing amount of evidence regarding global warming and climate change and the potential impacts of such change on many forms of tourism, the aspect of climate-tourism interactions warrants immediate [...]

Prioritizing in the battle of effective foreign aid

Prioritizing in the battle of effective foreign aid

01-10-2009, Jorinda Ballering, Topic 3: Global-local connections and the political context

Introduction These days foreign aid is a much debated topic. Many Western governments feel the responsibility to end poverty in the rest of the world, but whether they are truly willing to give money unconditionally [...]

The potential and pitfalls of global environmental governance: The politics of transfrontier conservation areas in Southern Africa

Introduction

Transnational forms of management are often deemed to be more effective with environmental issues than national level management. This is because of the trans-boundary nature of most environmental problems. This statement is elaborated with association of global environmental governance with reference to Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) in Southern Africa. In this area the [...]

Uganda to adopt tourism legislation in line with UN

Introduction

Uganda`s government is to introduce tourism legislation in support of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The catalyst for this legislation has been a recently released report by the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Center of Australia. The new direction of Uganda’s tourism policies were revealed in the 4th International Institute for Peace through Tourism [...]

KENIA – Kenya tourism push

smh.com.au, June 14, 2008 Tourism, Kenya’s biggest export earner, was much damaged by the violence that erupted after the January election. Visitor numbers, which had been running at record levels with 2 million arrivals in 2007, slumped by 44 per cent in the immediate aftermath of the post-election violence that saw 1200 people die [...]