Reading, learning and enacting: Interpretation at visitor sites in the wet tropics rainforest of Australia

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-188

  McNamara, Karen Elizabeth ^a   Prideaux, Bruce ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nature; Observation; Surveys; Sustainability; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960192366     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504620903486412     Document Type: Article

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