A Verification of Some Suggestions about the strategies for Knowledge Integration: Exploring EcotourismFutures in Mahan, Kerman

Shah nematollah valy’s tomb and also the shahzadeh garden are enough for making Mahan as a tourist acceptor city, in Kerman province. strategy planning, a method for structured thinking about the future, offers an important tool for integrating scientific and stakeholder knowledge at different scales to explore alternative natural resource management and policy options. However, actual examples of such integration are rare. A Strategy planning exercise was done in kerman Province, Mahan for integrating knowledge among scientists, ecotourism experts, and ecotourism stakeholders to explore possible futures for Mahan nascent ecotourism industry. Four Strategies focused on climate change and technology, highlighting the risks and opportunities associated with rapid information exchange, and options to develop alternative ecotourism activities despite climate change impacts on natural assets. Although ecosystem-based management strategies were not investigated in detail by participants, all Strategies recognized and identified important cross-scale partnerships required to achieve sustainable management of natural resources and to promote ecotourism. An evaluation of changes in perceptions at the beginning and end of the Strategy exercise suggests that participants became more aware of social and ecosystem processes occurring at broad spatial and temporal scales.

کلیدواژه ها:

ecotourism ، mahan city ، kerman province ، industry ، management