Indigenous People and Economic Development

Katia Iankova is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism at the University of Greenwich. She has a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Quebec, Canada. Katia is a specialist in Indigenous studies and is a frequent contributor to books and journal articles on tourism and indigenous peoples. Azizul Hassan (MA) is a visiting lecturer of the Business School at the University of Greenwich and a member of the Tourism Consultants Network of the Tourism Society. His main area of research interests are focused on ethnography and tourism. Rachel L’Abee is a PhD in Sociology from the University of Quebec, Canada. She is the founding president the Sustainable Destinations Consultancy, a firm dealing with the sustainable development of tourist destinations in Latin American countries.

• Part 1 Socio-Economic Development and Institutional Planning: Socioeconomic dynamics of Aboriginal communities in Quebec. Contrasting indigenous and non-indigenous ways of thinking about capacity building for achieving sustainable development. Planning sustainable development within ancestral domains: indigenous people's perceptions in the Philippines. Government programs and indigenous business in the Bundjalung Nation, Australia. Part 2 Indigenous Enterprise: From passive consumers to entrepreneurs: building a political context for economic development in an Anishinabe community, QC. Culture-based enterprise opportunities for indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Australia. Institutional arrangements and sustainable livelihoods: the experience of an indigenous community in Taiwan. The role of elders in indigenous economic development: the case of Kaumatua on Maori enterprises of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Factors influencing the creation of enterprises and success of young indigenous entrepreneurs in Quebec and Labrador, Canada. Part 3 Sustainability and Indigenous Tourism: Entrepreneurship in an indigenous community: sustainable tourism and economic development in a newly inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site. Developing a sustainable indigenous tourism sector: reconciling socio-economic objectives with market driven approaches. An assessment of community-based ecotourism impacts: a case study of the San/Basarwa communities of the Kalahari, Botswana. Aboriginal culture in indigenous tourism management in Central Australia. Part 4 Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development: Poverty alleviation and indigenous communities in Peninsular Malaysia. A composition of variable economic activities: cases of three groups of indigenous peoples of South Asia. Raffia palm industry in Nigeria: a case study of the Annang Society in the Akwa Ibom State. Arctic regions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): problems and prospects. The urges of language adaptation for economic development within the Garos of Bangladesh.