Elijah Okeyo

Eco-Tourism as a strategy to leverage HIV/AIDs fight along the beaches

Prevalence on the islands and beaches of Usigu division Siaya County

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The World Conservation Unions (IUCN) Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas Eco-tourism is not just a developmental ecosystem protection tool but can also play a vital role in curbing socio-economic problems such as HIV/AIDS and Poverty. Eco-tourism is a major contributor to the world's economy, accounting for greater than 9 percent of global GDP and almost nine percent of jobs globally. In Kenya, the Government recognizes eco-tourism as having the potential of driving the economy especially for locally directed and participatory rural developments based on a rational utilization of the ecosystem, environmental and cultural resources on which ecotourism relies on for instance, fishing communities are considered to be more susceptible to HIV/AIDS on account of various risk factors associated with fishing and its related lifestyle. The study therefore adopts external and cultural theories respectively, The high prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS among the fishermen and fishmongers in the islands and beaches of Lake Victoria has been occasioned by poverty and diminishing fish catch as a result of over fishing and use of illegal fishing gears.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 173g
• ISBN-13: 9786139452361
• ISBN-10: 6139452368
• Artikelnr.: 55435554

Autorenporträt

Elijah Okeyo: M.A, PGD, Bsc (Hons), HND. Consultor e Formador de Gestão de Projectos.