Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia

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Carolin Hulke, Linus Kalvelage, Jim Kairu, Javier Revilla Diez and Lucas Rutina

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2022, vol. 15, issue 2, 305-322

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global production networks and challenged the resilience of regional economies to external shocks. The tourism sector was severely affected by the travel bans imposed, as were regions characterised by tourism development, such as Zambezi in northern Namibia. Nonetheless, with the support of the national government, conservancies, as local governance institutions, partly maintained the distribution of value from tourism throughout the pandemic and strengthened agriculture-tourism linkages to achieve long-term transformation. These findings suggest that local institutions are able to create regional resilience through their capacity to drive adaptation and adaptability in a diversified regional economy.

Keywords: regional resilience; value distribution; regional diversification; tourism-agriculture linkages; conservation; tourism GPN; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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