The Annapurna Conservation Area Project: tourists as agents of development and environmental management in the high Himalaya?

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
Alex Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Annapurna Conservation Area ◽  
Annapurna Conservation Area Project

NEPAL Annapurna Conservation Area Project

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Charlie Pye- Smith ◽  
Grazia Borrini ◽  
Richard Sandbrook
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Area ◽  
Annapurna Conservation Area ◽  
Annapurna Conservation Area Project

scholarly journals Relationship between Social Carrying Capacity and Tourism Carrying Capacity: A Case of Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 9-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subash Joshi ◽  
Rajiv Dahal
Keyword(s):  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Hypothesis Test ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Management Intervention ◽  
Social Carrying Capacity ◽  
Annapurna Conservation Area ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Annapurna Conservation Area Project ◽  
The Relationship

The paper aims to examine the relationship between social carrying capacity and tourism carrying capacity in the Annapurna Conservation Area (ACA), Nepal (along the popular Annapurna Base Camp Trail). Carrying Capacity is a key indicator in assessing the sustainable tourism development at a given place. The study used Survey Research Design to obtain information from tourist and local residents. From the research, it was evident that the visitors were highly satisfied with the tourism activities, along with conservation and development activities at ACA. Similarly, local residents were satisfied with the development of tourism in ACA, yet they perceived crowding, and congestion, cultural degradation as some impending challenges in the near future. Social Carrying Capacity in the ACA has not exceed its threshold, even though this popular trekking destination has been witnessing robust growth in the number of tourist in the region post armed-conflict (1997-2007). Hypothesis test result indicate that the relationship between dependent variable [Tourism Carrying Capacity (TCC)] and independent variable [Social Carrying Capacity (SCC)] has a positive correlation. Adequate and appropriate management intervention by the Nepal Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC)/Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) there has been well-planned and sustained tourism growth in the region.

scholarly journals Making sense of conservation behaviours in Mustang, Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
C. S. S. França ◽  
E. O. Kyei ◽  
G. S. Aragundi ◽  
R. L. Rutt
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Timber Management ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Resource Sustainability ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Annapurna Conservation Area ◽  
Annapurna Conservation Area Project ◽  
Integrated Conservation ◽  
Integrated Conservation And Development

Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) have been undertaken in many countries due to expectations of their supporting both natural resource sustainability and livelihoods. However, they have been challenged by critics over the years, who claim that conservation goals take precedence over local development in practice, thereby worsening the vulnerability of resource-dependent people. Nonetheless, one ICDP implemented in Nepal, the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), has been largely regarded by researchers and practitioners as an ICDP success case. Under the authority of a conservation-oriented NGO, ACAP, the ICDP engages local communities participatory for resource management. One community within ACAP has been found to have a substantial timber surplus that satisfies conservation goals, but could also become a sizeable and sustainable source of income for local development. We interrogate the rules and practices of timber management in this community to explore the why behind this practice, discussing how modes of environmental governance aimed at producing behaviors to manage natural resources in particular ways (‘environmentalists’) feature in the seemingly conservation-oriented de jure rules and de facto practices and in authority relations in and around the community.

Analysis of Land Use Land Cover in Annapurna Conservation Area in Gandaki Province, Nepal using Vegetation Index and Land Use Land Cover Datasets

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Shiva Pokhrel ◽  
Chungla Sherpa
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
National Level ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Barren Land ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Annapurna Conservation Area

Conservation areas are originally well-known for protecting landscape features and wildlife. They are playing key role in conserving and providing a wide range of ecosystem services, social, economic and cultural benefits as well as vital places for climate mitigation and adaptation. We have analyzed decadal changes in land cover and status of vegetation cover in the conservation area using both national level available data on land use land cover (LULC) changes (1990-2010) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) (2010-2018) in Annapurna conservation area. LULC showed the barren land as the most dominant land cover types in all three different time series 1990, 2000 and 2010 with followed by snow cover, grassland, forest, agriculture and water body. The highest NDVI values were observed at Southern, Southwestern and Southeastern part of conservation area consisting of forest area, shrub land and grassland while toward low to negative in the upper middle to the Northern part of the conservation area.

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