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Regina Scheyvens's Degrees

PhD Development Studies Victoria University of Wellington
Masters Development Studies Victoria University of Wellington
Bachelors Anthropology University of Auckland

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According to Wikipedia, Regina Aurelia Scheyvens is a New Zealand development academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at Massey University. Her research focuses on the relationship between tourism, sustainable development and poverty reduction, and she has conducted fieldwork on these issues in Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, the Maldives and in Southern Africa. She is also very interested in gender and development, sustainable livelihood options for small island states, and in theories of empowerment for marginalised peoples.

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Regina Scheyvens's Published Works

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Ecotourism and the empowerment of local communities (1999) (1101)
Tourism for development : empowering communities (2002) (635)
Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus (2007) (422)
The Private Sector and the SDGs: The Need to Move Beyond ‘Business as Usual’ (2016) (394)
BACKPACKER TOURISM AND THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT (2002) (285)
Tourism and Poverty (2010) (233)
Tourism and Poverty Reduction: Issues for Small Island States (2008) (213)
Promoting Women's Empowerment Through Involvement in Ecotourism: Experiences from the Third World (2000) (196)
Tourism in Small Island States: From Vulnerability to Strengths (2008) (172)
Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide (2014) (163)
Tourism and poverty alleviation in Fiji: comparing the impacts of small- and large-scale tourism enterprises (2012) (161)
Inclusive tourism development (2018) (158)
Experimenting with Active Learning in Geography: Dispelling the Myths that Perpetuate Resistance (2008) (118)
Gender, ethics and empowerment: Dilemmas of development fieldwork (2000) (112)
The challenge of sustainable tourism development in the Maldives: Understanding the social and political dimensions of sustainability (2011) (105)
Poor cousins no more (2007) (93)
Pro-Poor Tourism: Is There Value Beyond the Rhetoric? (2009) (81)
Can tourism help to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere”? The challenge of tourism addressing SDG1 (2019) (80)
Local involvement in managing tourism. (2003) (78)
International Students Pursuing Postgraduate Study in Geography: impediments to their learning experiences (2003) (71)
Tourism, Land Tenure and Poverty Alleviation in Fiji (2012) (68)
The political economy of tourism development in Africa (2003) (66)
The Third World in Global Environmental Politics (1997) (63)
Strategies for Sustainable Development: Experiences from the Pacific (1999) (54)
Conceptualising corporate community development (2016) (54)
Church Women's Groups and the Empowerment of Women in Solomon Islands (2003) (53)
Exporting Stimulus and 'Shared Prosperity': Reinventing Foreign Aid for a Retroliberal Era (2018) (48)
Enrolling the Private Sector in Community Development: Magic Bullet or Sleight of Hand? (2017) (46)
The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (2011) (46)
Unnoticed but important: revealing the hidden contribution of community-based religious institution of the mosque in disasters (2014) (43)
Development Field Work: A Practical Guide (2014) (42)
Linking tourism to the sustainable development goals: a geographical perspective (2018) (42)
Corporate social responsibility in tourism post-2015: a Development First approach (2016) (39)
Subtle strategies for women's empowerment: planning for effective grassroots development (1998) (36)
Women, Disempowerment and Resistance: An Analysis of Logging and Mining Activities in the Pacific (1998) (31)
Paddling on One Side of the Canoe? The Changing Nature of New Zealand's Development Assistance Programme (2012) (29)
New Polynesian Triangle: Rethinking Polynesian migration and development in the Pacific (2009) (28)
Sun, Sand, and Beach Fale: Benefiting from Backpackers—the Samoan Way (2006) (27)
Tourists and community development: corporate social responsibility or tourist social responsibility? (2019) (24)
Indigenous tourism and the sustainable development goals (2021) (23)
Development Alternatives in the Pacific: How Tourism Corporates Can Work More Effectively with Local Communities (2018) (21)
Growth of beach fale tourism in Samoa: the high value of low-cost tourism. (2005) (20)
E-Whanaungatanga: The role of social media in Māori political empowerment (2015) (20)
Introducing inclusive tourism (2018) (20)
Pacific peoples and the pandemic: exploring multiple well-beings of people in tourism-dependent communities (2021) (20)
Indigenous entrepreneurship on customary land in the Pacific: Measuring sustainability (2017) (19)
Tourism and poverty reduction in the South Pacific (2009) (17)
Tourism, the SDGs and partnerships (2021) (16)
Working with Marginalised , Vulnerableor Privileged Groups (2003) (16)
Linkages between tourist resorts, local food production and the sustainable development goals (2019) (15)
Business serves society: Successful locally-driven development on customary land in the South Pacific (2020) (14)
Chapter 10 – Ecotourism and gender issues (2007) (14)
Te Awa Tupua: peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism (2021) (13)
International Business Mentoring for Development: The Importance of Local Context and Culture (2015) (11)
Sharing the riches of tourism in Vanuatu (2013) (10)
Tourism and CSR in the Paciﬁc (2015) (10)
A quiet revolution : strategies for the empowerment and development of rural women in the Solomon Islands : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [in Development Studies] at Massey University (1995) (9)
Tourism and the less developed world: issues and case studies (2003) (9)
"Engendering" environmental projects: the case of eco-timber production in the Solomon Islands. (1998) (8)
Tourism, Empowerment and Sustainable Development: A New Framework for Analysis (2021) (8)
Would the Hand that Rocks the Cradle Dare to Rock the Boat (1995) (7)
Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia (2022) (7)
Donor approaches to food security in the Pacific: Sustainable development goal 2 and the need for more inclusive agricultural development (2020) (7)
Resetting tourism post-COVID-19: why Indigenous Peoples must be central to the conversation (2021) (6)
Being a single mum: Pacific Island mothers' positive experiences of parenting (2010) (5)
Complexities of development management in the 2020s: Aligning values, skills and competencies in development studies (2018) (5)
Rethinking Polynesian mobility: A new Polynesian Triangle? (2009) (5)
Book reviewEmpowerment for Sustainable Tourism Development, T. Sofield, Pergamon, Oxford (2003), (410pp., US$85 Hdk), ISBN: 0-08-043946-2 (2006) (5)
Revitalising rural development in the Pacific: An itaukei (indigenous Fijian) approach (2019) (5)
Tourism partnerships: Harnessing tourist compassion to ‘do good’ through community development in Fiji (2021) (5)
Culture and Development in a Globalizing World: Geographies, Actors, and Paradigms – Edited by Sarah A. Radcliffe (2008) (4)
4. Tourism and Poverty Reduction (2014) (4)
Beach fale tourism in Samoa: The value of indigenous ownership and control over tourism (2009) (4)
Silver linings around dark clouds: Tourism, Covid‐19 and a return to traditional values, villages and the vanua (2022) (3)
Cuisine: a new concept for analysing tourism-agriculture linkages? (2020) (3)
Tourism and Politics: Responses to Crises in Island States (2021) (3)
Aid, education and adventure: Thai women’s participation in a development scholarship scheme. (2012) (3)
Tourism and Development in the Developing World (2010) (2)
The growth of beach fale accommodation in Samoa: Doing tourism the Samoan way (2009) (2)
Discarding the green lenses: support for a livelihoods approach to sustainable development in the Pacific. (2000) (2)
Tourism in a World of Disorder: A Return to the Vanua and Kinship with Nature in Fiji (2021) (1)
From a Distance: The ‘New Normal’ for Researchers and Research Assistants Engaged in Remote Fieldwork (2022) (1)
Women’s everyday travel experiences in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan (2018) (1)
Women, the environment and sustainable development: Towards a theoretical synthesis: Rosi Braidotti, Ewa Charkiewicz, Sabine Häusler, Saskia Wieringa, 220 pp., 1994, Zed Books in association with INSTRAW, London, £29.95 hbk, £12.95 pbk (1995) (1)
Tourism Reduces Poverty—Development Agency Approaches (2012) (0)
Fiji: An encyclopaedic atlas (2008) (0)
Chapter 5. Does Tourism Reduce Poverty (2012) (0)
Connections: The Teaching and Learning of Geography at New Zealand Universities (2009) (0)
Pacific approaches to fundraising in the digital age: COVID ‐19, resilience and community relational economic practices (2023) (0)
Subtle strategies for womens empowerment. (1998) (0)
Humanising research: A citizen social science agenda (2022) (0)
Enhanced wellbeing of Pacific Island peoples during the pandemic? A qualitative analysis using the Advanced Frangipani Framework (2023) (0)
Empowerment (2020) (0)
Understanding inclusive tourism development (2020) (0)
Reimagining Pacific tourism by thinking local (2022) (0)

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