Exploring tripartite praxis for the REDD + forest climate change initiative through community based ecotourism

Wearing, S; McDonald, M; Schweinsberg, S; Chatterton, P; Bainbridge, T

Exploring tripartite praxis for the REDD + forest climate change initiative through community based ecotourism

Wearing, S

McDonald, M Schweinsberg, S Chatterton, P Bainbridge, T

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Citation:: Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2020, 28 (3), pp. 377 - 393
Issue Date:: 2020-03-03

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dc.contributor.author	Wearing, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5158-059X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	McDonald, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Schweinsberg, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Chatterton, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Bainbridge, T	en_US
dc.date.issued	2020-03-03	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2020, 28 (3), pp. 377 - 393	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0966-9582	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/138815
dc.description.abstract	© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) is a United Nations programme initiated in 2008 with the aim of mitigating climate change through the preservation of the world’s existing forest stocks. One of the challenges in its successful implementation has been community involvement in its design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The purpose of this study is to assess what REDD + can learn from the experience of Community-Based Ecotourism (CBET), which operates under many of the same conditions. A critical review of the related literature using the Scopus database was undertaken using three search strings including “REDD+” (2,913 listings), “community-based ecotourism” (113 listings) and “REDD + and tourism” (6 listings) to identify the variables and themes related to each. Despite the significant increase in the number of publications on REDD + since 2008, only one was specifically related to ecotourism. We argue that CBET understood as a form of social capital can function as an enabling platform for REDD+, in particular its implementation of international conservation policy by working with local communities/indigenous peoples and business stakeholders, referred to here as the “tripartite praxis”. We demonstrate how CBET can act as a basis from which to guide internationally driven incentive-based conservation policy and community entrepreneurship within a social capital framework.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Sustainable Tourism	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/09669582.2019.1676251	en_US
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dc.subject.classification	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	en_US
dc.title	Exploring tripartite praxis for the REDD + forest climate change initiative through community based ecotourism	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) is a United Nations programme initiated in 2008 with the aim of mitigating climate change through the preservation of the world’s existing forest stocks. One of the challenges in its successful implementation has been community involvement in its design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The purpose of this study is to assess what REDD + can learn from the experience of Community-Based Ecotourism (CBET), which operates under many of the same conditions. A critical review of the related literature using the Scopus database was undertaken using three search strings including “REDD+” (2,913 listings), “community-based ecotourism” (113 listings) and “REDD + and tourism” (6 listings) to identify the variables and themes related to each. Despite the significant increase in the number of publications on REDD + since 2008, only one was specifically related to ecotourism. We argue that CBET understood as a form of social capital can function as an enabling platform for REDD+, in particular its implementation of international conservation policy by working with local communities/indigenous peoples and business stakeholders, referred to here as the “tripartite praxis”. We demonstrate how CBET can act as a basis from which to guide internationally driven incentive-based conservation policy and community entrepreneurship within a social capital framework.

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