Living on the Edge

Susan Snyman, PhD, is Director of Research at the African Leadership University’s School of Wildlife Conservation, and Research Associate with the School of Tourism & Hospitality at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also Vice-chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WPCA) Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group. Her research is focused on sustainable, diversified wildlife economies, including specifically, nature-based tourism and impacts on communities.Kelly S. Bricker, PhD, is Professor and Chair in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah. She is the Vice-chair of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC); she coordinates the Capacity Building Working Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WPCA) Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group, and is Chair of the Central Wasatch Commission Stakeholders Group, Utah. Her research is focused on nature-based tourism, impacts on communities, and effective strategies for sustainable protected area and destination management. With partners in OARS, her husband, and 12 communities, she founded the conservation programme, ‘Rivers Fiji’.

• 1. Living on the edge: benefit-sharing from protected area tourism Susan Snyman and Kelly S. Bricker 2. Revenue sharing from tourism in terrestrial African protected areas Anna Spenceley, and Susan Snyman, and Andrew Rylance 3. Economic impacts of tourism in protected areas of Brazil Thiago do Val Simardi Beraldo Souza, Brijesh Thapa, Camila Gonçalves de Oliveira Rodrigues, and Denise Imori 4. Khanyayo village and Mkhambathi Nature Reserve, South Africa: a pragmatic qualitative investigation into attitudes towards a protected area Dorothy Queiros and Kevin Mearns 5. Strengthening governance processes to improve benefit-sharing from tourism in protected areas by using stakeholder analysis Jasper Heslinga, Peter Groote, and Frank Vanclay 6. African tourism industry employees: expenditure patterns and comparisons with other community members Susan Snyman 7. Tourism development and the empowerment of local communities: The case of Mitzpe Ramon, a peripheral town in the Israeli Negev Desert Joshua Schmidt and Natan Uriely 8. Community involvement and tourism revenue sharing as contributing factors to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Jozani–Chwaka Bay National Park and Biosphere Reserve, Zanzibar Florian Carius and Hubert Job