Kenya A Paradigm for Sustainable Development

             A Paradigm for Sustainable Development
             Introduction: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the historical development of Kenya's nature based tourist industry in order to develop a better understanding of the concepts relating to sustainable tourism in the developing world. I will show how past resource management practices has affected tourism's carrying capacity. Because of the complicatedness of this paper I will break it down into five sections. In the first section I will define sustainable development. In the second I will briefly describe the history and current state of nature based tourism in Kenya. In the third section I will give examples of elements that threaten to saturate the carrying capacity of nature based tourism in Kenya. In the fourth and final section I will give a brief historical account of ecotourism's presence in Kenya and give ways in which it can be a possible source of sustainable development in the future.
             Part 1: What does sustainable development really mean?
             The most common definition of sustainable development is: "development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987)." In essence, for sustainable development to occur there must be some sort of trade-off between the aspirations of the present and those of the future. Successful management of resources is the cornerstone of sustainable development. Creating sustainable development is especially important to nature based tourism because it completely relies on an ecological resource that is usually non-renewable and irreplaceable. Once the environmental resource has developed past the point where it is no longer attractive to perspective tourist the entire economy of the dependent host community will collapse.
             The maximum amount of positive development that can occur is determined...

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