This book describes and analyzes six novel conservation arrangements in eastern and southern Africa, illustrating how tourism is increasingly used and promoted as a key mechanism for achieving conservation and development objectives outside state-protected areas.

Preface.- Chapter 1. Novel institutional arrangements for tourism, conservation and development in eastern and southern Africa.- Chapter 2. From exploitation to ownership: Wildlife-based tourism and communal area conservancies in Namibia.- Chapter 3. The Tsiseb conservancy: how communities, the state and the market struggle for its success.- Chapter 4. Community-based natural resource management in Botswana.- Chapter 5. Community Empowerment through Community-based Tourism: The Case of Chobe Enclave Conservation Trust in Botswana.- Chapter 6. Private game reserves in Southern Africa.- Chapter 7. False legitimacies: The rhetoric of economic opportunities in the expansion of conservation areas in southern Africa.- Chapter 8. Hunting for conservation? The re-introduction of sport hunting in Uganda examined.- Chapter 9. The evolution and progression of Transfrontier Conservation Areas in the Southern African Development Community.- Chapter 10. The Selous-Niassa Transfrontier Conservation Area and Tourism: Evolution, Benefits and Challenges.- Chapter 11. Promoting conservation tourism: The case of the African Wildlife Foundation's tourism conservation enterprises in Kenya.- Chapter 12. Implementing Tourism-Conservation Enterprises: a comparison of three lodges in Kenya.- 13. A dynamic perspective on institutional arrangements for tourism, conservation and development in eastern and southern Africa.- Index.