Abstract
The traditional rural place signifies rural areas with small settlements, low population density, agrarian-based economies and a traditional society. This paper aimed at drawing the attention of the policy maker’s attention to the importance and need to create values from rural landscape and preserve the existing biodiversity of the local environment. People do first occupy a space that are transformed into a meaningful place or given a sense of place vital for navigating something like an abstract geometric space. Often time, this captures our live experience of the landscape. The global socio-ecological took roots from moral crisis emerging from unsustainable consumption and a new paradigm of sustainable development directed at holistic human development. As more than half of the Nigeria’s rural population live below poverty line speaks volumes that much needs to be done. Policies on ecosystem services need review for adequate protection for sustainable service delivery. Above all, provide opportunity for all to have synergies that promote the development of rural organization such as community–driven cooperative to enhance investment in essential infrastructures and services, and recognize the role of urban areas in fostering rural development. Keywords: Rural areas, Geo-tourism, Place, empowerment, Sustainable rural development DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/56-02 Publication date: May 31 st 2021
Highlights
These days, in many advanced and developing societies, rural communities are in crisis
Clarifying what we mean by preserving the place will help rural areas grow in ways that protect their very environment while enhancing the economic well-being of its people and the places they call home through appropriate management, tourism sustainable development or good governance.There is the side that rural communities and people are only able to preserve their physical environment through the endless commodification of landscapes development could be a phenomenon that is effective only within this world view
Introduction to Geo-tourism The creation of term geo-tourism drew on many influential ideas in the field of sustainable tourism, the Brundtland Report, which introduced the concept of sustainable development in 1987; that defines sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (WCED 1987)
Summary
These days, in many advanced and developing societies, rural communities are in crisis. Given geo-tourism’s aim to sustain the region’s character through preserving local values and assets, using a participatory approach as a method to identify attributes that make up the nature of place will enable more informed decision-making in tourism management, marketing, and development going forward. Since many of these local “social landscapes” have natural resources at their core, those tasked with tourism development can make the most of a tremendous opportunity to add community character to traditional metrics such as nonresident satisfaction and ecological quality (Amsden, Stedman, and Kruger 2010). The China’s ecotourism opportunity spectrum (CECOS), Ahn, et al, (2002) LAC- limits of acceptable change, and Tao, et al (2017) VERP-visitor experience and resources protection have become important bases for small-scale tourism space management (Huang, et al, 2006) which safeguards the sustainable rights to scarce resources and strengthens the enclosure and visibility of spatial boundary networks, and in this manner, it has been regarded as the most powerful law for maintaining internal affairs
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