The Environmental Sustainability of Protected Area Tourism: Towards a Concession-Related Theory of Regulation

This paper proposes a development project to map the compatibility and interplays among various regulatory approaches, and their consequences for sustainable protected area tourism. The project takes the first steps toward a concession-related theory of regulation. Four regulatory aspects are conceptualized in this paper: approaches to PA planning, the types of monitoring undertaken, the methods of concession allocation and the design of environmental requirements in concession contracts.