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Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has gained international attention for reconciling common pool resource management with the needs and aspirations of the local people. In Botswana, CBNRM was introduced in the late 1980s through the support of USAID. This marked a paradigm shift towards the management and utilisation of public protected resources. The strategy generated socio-economic and ecological benefits to once marginalised communities, improving livelihoods and biodiversity conservation. Despite CBNRM achievements, its applicability is limited to common-pool resources. There is a dearth of literature indicating how the CBNRM principle has been applied to privately owned resources surrounded by communities and their commons, hence the search for models that recognised and forged mutually beneficial linkages for sustainable co-existence of the common and private property resource management regimes. This is particularly important considering that the prospects of protected conservation area ecotourism – private or communal – revolve around building mutually shared beneficial linkages. The chapter establishes stakeholders’ perceptions on the opportunities and challenges of applying Nexus Thinking (NT) to the relationship among conservation, ecotourism and local livelihoods with respect to a privately owned Mokolodi Nature Reserve (MNR) in Botswana. It is thus conceptualised that conservation, livelihoods and ecotourism form a complex system linked by multiple interacting components (see Fig. 11.1). Data was collected from the stakeholders to MNR using key informant interviews. The study found out that mutually beneficial linkages existed between the MNR as a protected area and the local community. The noted key perceptions include: interactive, promote collective thinking, and empower the local community. On the contrary, few informants perceived NT model rather abstract and required further assessment to refine it. Nonetheless, the NT model as an interactive and innovative framework can deliberately or by design be used in the management of privately protected resources for sustainable socio-economic and ecological benefits.
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Maradza, J., Chanda, R., Moswete, N.N. (2022). Perspectives on the Applicability of Nexus Thinking to Private Protected Areas: A Case Study of Mokolodi Nature Reserve, Botswana. In: Saarinen, J., Lubbe, B., Moswete, N.N. (eds) Southern African Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism Management. Geographies of Tourism and Global Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99435-8_11
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