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Sustainable tourism is seen as a major development opportunity for regions with pristine nature and biodiversity …
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Protected areas can represent a strategic laboratory for the realisation of initiatives capable of promoting sustainable economic development models at a local level. One of the duties of national parks is to provide value and promote, even for tourism purposes, natural, historical and cultural...
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In this paper we present a novel methodology to determine the annual value of recreational visit flows to different habitat types in Great Britain. We combine different empirical models to predict the spatial distributions of recreational value across Great Britain. The models use a combination...
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In this paper we investigate the reasons why integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) fail to achieve their conservation goals. We develop a bio-economic model of open access land and wildlife exploitation, which is consistent with many farming and hunting societies living in...
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Rwanda's Nyungwe National Park is a biodiversity hotspot with the most endemic species in the ecoregion as well as the highest number of threatened species internationally. In addition to great biological diversity, Nyungwe National Park supplies significant ecosystem services to the Rwandan...
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Different economic methods are being used to estimate the economic benefits generated by nature (wildlife) tourism. The … the use of a microeconomic model. Tourism Research Australia has estimated the economic benefits to Australia of nature … tourism based on levels of first round expenditure generated by nature tourists in Australia. This is a form of economic …
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