Cultural Interpretation toward Sustainability: A Case of Mount Kinabalu

Bidder, Christy; Kibat, Silverina Anabelle; Fatt, Boyd Sun

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.454

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“…Community organization‐wise, culture emphasizes the values and beliefs of a communal way of living. Also, apart from having a communal lifestyle, many societies already have values and beliefs that have actually shaped their lifestyle based on their use of natural resources for their survival (Abbas, Nafisi, & Nafisi, ; Bidder, Kibat, & Fatt, ). As such, culture can play an instrumental role to achieve environmental sustainability through people's knowledge of resource conservation and management by developing the community organization based on conservation initiatives.…”

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“…Hence, the technology and process that we innovate, if in accordance with the people's values and way of living, can add to their existing knowledge and may even be shared with future generations. In some cases, the culture can also act as the resource for economic growth, and local and regional development, such as in the form of tourism (Bidder et al, ; Fatimah, ).…”

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Scaling up sustainability: Concepts and practices of the ecovillage approach

Singh

Keitsch

Shrestha

2019

Sustainable Development

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Since the Brundtland definition, practitioners and theoreticians have strived to deal with incoherencies in the concept of sustainability or sustainable development, partly because the concept is defined on a global level and applied through local level initiatives. Explanatorily, describing the three sustainability dimensions (social, economic and ecological), the pillar model of sustainability has become popular. However, several authors indicate that a comprehensive understanding, methods and tools on how the dimensions relate to each other in the pillar model of sustainability, are absent. Further, sustainable interventions must express their relations through visible spatial terms and interpret them with the help of values and beliefs that can be handed over to future generations (temporal aspect). Many interventions that are expressed in sustainability dimensions often lack these spatial and temporal considerations. As a result, interventions lack case-and context-specific concerns, objectives, priorities and possibilities, and often seem short-term goal-oriented. Within tensions between global and local, and spatial-temporal necessity, ecovillage is an emerging approach for shaping a sustainable future at grass roots level, and an opportunity to deal with the challenge of managing nature conservation in a community with culturally, socially and economically diverse actors. Hence, the overall objective of this article is to identify concepts and practices of ecovillage as sustainable way of living connected to a context. The attempt is to construe integrative understanding to sustainability and to express spatial and temporal aspects analytically. This understanding can be scaled up to strategies and policies. The article uses a literature review of various secondary sources, journals, narratives, and conference papers on sustainability and ecovillage. The article assumes that it is important to develop the framework analytically prior to empirical research. Findings indicate that to yield sustainable, inclusive and equitable outcomes, it is important to focus on the cultural and regional aspects. This focus can also provide a transition from local to national and global interventions and thereby become a mediator between different levels of sustainability, global and local.

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Scaling up sustainability: Concepts and practices of the ecovillage approach

Singh

Keitsch

Shrestha

2019

Sustainable Development

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“…within the visitor) that can affect the communication process, but they are in a position to control the external influences. Bidder, Kibat and Fatt (2016) found that some of the top motivations to visit the Kinabalu Park were destination specific, such as 'to climb Mount Kinabalu', 'because the Park was one of the must-see attractions in Sabah' and 'to experience the indigenous cultural value of Mount Kinabalu'. Cheung and Jim (2014) found that 'ecological value' and 'good destination management' were the two most important factors in destination choice in Hong Kong's conservation areas.…”

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“…off-site interpretation). Bidder et al (2016), on the other hand, explain that information should be presented in various forms (print, display and audiovisual shows), and souvenirs should be sold as part of the interpretation experience (i.e. post-experience).…”

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“…Section E contained questions about the importance of interpretation services for a quality experience in the park as a whole, as well as the importance of specific media in an interpretation visitor centre. Both questions had to be answered according to a scale of 1 (not at all important) to 5 (extremely important) and were based on the works of ), Botha et al (2016), Bidder et al (2016, Cheung and Jim (2013), Henker andBrown (2011), Jacobs andHarms (2014), Kang and Gretzel (2012), Kolb (1984), Kuo (2002), Langer (1989), Marschall et al (2017), Mitsche et al (2008), Orams (1994, Stewart et al (1998) and Tilden (1977).…”

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Interpretation needs and preferences of visitors to Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

Merwe

Saayman

Botha

2020

Koedoe

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South African National Parks is one of South Africa’s main drawcards for ecotourists. One of these parks is the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (KTP), which is also a World Heritage Site (WHS). Because tourism is key to national parks and WHSs, visitor management strategies such as interpretation are vital for these destinations to provide tourists with better experiences and knowledge. The aim of this research was therefore to determine the interpretation needs and preferences of visitors to KTP. The factor analyses revealed that tourists felt that park guidelines would add the most to a quality experience. Tourists preferred interpretation topics on nature and heritage and would like to receive in-depth information on these topics. Interpretation should also preferably be offered through audio and visual media. These findings impact the development of relevant interpretation services for the park, which will contribute towards visitors’ experiences. The research is original as it examined visitors’ interpretation needs and preferences on topics, the extent of information tourists would like to receive and the type of media through which information should be presented.Conservation implications: Designing relevant interpretation services based on tourists’ needs and preferences will contribute towards satisfactory experiences. In turn, this may lead to an increase in profits, which can support conservation practices. Effective interpretation messages can also foster additional support towards conservation efforts.

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Introduction to Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Southeast Asia

Franco¹,

Mustaqim²

2021

Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions

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Cultural Interpretation toward Sustainability: A Case of Mount Kinabalu

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Scaling up sustainability: Concepts and practices of the ecovillage approach

Scaling up sustainability: Concepts and practices of the ecovillage approach

Interpretation needs and preferences of visitors to Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

Introduction to Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Southeast Asia

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