Dr. H. Wels

Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday

• Organizational cooperation, tourism development and processes of identity construction and politics in the context of private wildlife conservation and (the development of) cross border conservation areas in southern Africa.

Member of research school CERES, Working Programme 8:  
'The Management of Meaning and the Meaning of Management in a Changing World'.

Various research projects in the context of the above mentioned specialisations.

Publications (Source: METIS VU)

• Wels, H (2003) Private wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe. Joint ventures and reciprocity, Leiden: Brill Publishers
• Wels, H, together with Spierenburg, M.J. (2006) 'Securing space'. Mapping and fencing in transfrontier conservation in southern Africa, in 'Space and Culture, vol 9, no.3, pp 294-312
• Wels, H., together with Wishitemi, B and Spenceley, A (eds) (2007), Culture and community. Tourism studies in eastern and southern Africa, Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers

See also: SAVUSA