Tourism: An alternative to development?: Reconsidering farming, tourism, and conservation incentives in northwest Yunnan mountain communities

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-81

  Yang, Mingyu ^a,c   Hens, Luc ^b   Ou, Xiaokun ^a   De Wulf, Robert ^c  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agricultural practices; China.; Conservation incentives; Mountain communities; Tourism adoption; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; INCENTIVE; LANDOWNER; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOIL EROSION; TOURISM; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS; WATER POLLUTION;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 77949345948     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/mrd.1051     Document Type: Article

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