Exploring Local Governance and Sustainability Challenges in Community Reserves: A Data Science Perspective with Global Insights
As one of the furthermost noticeable industries, tourism strives for to magnify the situation in numerous forms, effectually addressing the dissimilar matters and concerns into the world nowadays. Frequently, these issues disturb the ecologically momentous areas and the local communities on a higher note. It's the need of the hour to check the forecasts of sustainable and community-based coastal tourism, whichever targets to promote the area's tourism potential over vigorous involvement by the local community although preservative the aboriginal ecological balance. Kerala, a classic tourism destination in India, provides significant opportunities for livelihood options to the local community who depend on natural resources. The contemporaneous research paper was centered on a case study of Kadalundi- Vallikkunnu Community Reserve in Kerala, the local authority and several influences it could need onto the local community then the recommendations whichever could be measured to discourse a interrelated issues. A vast portion of the respondents, having tourism activities as their primary source of income, have identified the problem of environmental degradation as prevalent in the area. In contrast, the rest are unaware of the harmful effects happening to the natural ecosystem, primarily because of waste disposal and water pollution. The paper is an endeavor to shed graceful on the local governance system of community reserve and socio-economic aspects of the local communities on the development of tourism initiatives in Kerala.
Authors
- Pellakuri Vidyullatha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7609-7791)
- Rajesh Sharma R (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7486-5259)
- Suresh Kumar Natarajan
- U Ananthanagu
- G S Pradeep Ghantasala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6817-0266)
- Sachin Pavithran A P
- Banerjee Ak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8156-4905)
Institutions
- Jain University (IN)
- Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IN)
- Alliance University (IN)
- Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (IN)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-11-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/odicon62106.2024.10797477
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Local Economic Development and Planning
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.23