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Large areas of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, exhibit high biodiversity in the absence of official protected areas. This paper discusses some of the key mechanisms and practices employed by local communities to help conserve their forest resources. The findings suggest that learning from local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563693
Citizen participation has become a commonly used term in political speeches in the last two decades, especially in relation to sustainable development and the environment. Indeed, several documents related to environmental management propose that the best alternative is through all citizens'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563731
Large areas of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, exhibit high biodiversity in the absence of official protected areas. This paper discusses some of the key mechanisms and practices employed by local communities to help conserve their forest resources. The findings suggest that learning from local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754301
Citizen participation has become a commonly used term in political speeches in the last two decades, especially in relation to sustainable development and the environment. Indeed, several documents related to environmental management propose that the best alternative is through all citizens'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754324
Increasingly, ecotourism is advocated not only as a form of sustainable tourism, but also for the contribution that it … ecotourism can make towards sustainable livelihoods, and it is being advocated as a pro-poor strategy in the developing countries …. Ecotourism must not, however, be considered in a vacuum, isolated from all other forms of economic activity. It is vital to set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563875
Increasingly, ecotourism is advocated not only as a form of sustainable tourism, but also for the contribution that it … ecotourism can make towards sustainable livelihoods, and it is being advocated as a pro-poor strategy in the developing countries …. Ecotourism must not, however, be considered in a vacuum, isolated from all other forms of economic activity. It is vital to set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754415
This article attempts to depict a linkage between accounting education and sustainable development and how accounting education in South Africa may be fine-tuned to play an advocacy role toward sustainable development. The methodological approach is conceptually rooted in reviews coalesced with...
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The energy demand in building sectors for summer air-conditioning is growing exponentially due to global warming, increased living standards and occupant comfort demands throughout the last decades. Concerns over these environmental changes have begun shifting the emphasis from current cooling...
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Debates about ecotourism are futile without an understanding of how concepts of ecologically acceptable and …
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practical application, planners and managers of ecotourism have not embraced them with particular enthusiasm. The explanation … offered in this paper has two main strands. On the demand side, those involved in planning and managing ecotourism have, for a … objectives of ecotourism. Planners and managers of ecotourism have therefore remained largely unconvinced of the practicality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563682