False promise or false premise? Using tourism revenue sharing to promote conservation and poverty reduction in Uganda

Conservation and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-28

  Tumusiime, David Mwesigye ^a   Vedeld, Paul ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

benefit sharing; Bwindi; ecotourism; gorilla trekking; park outreach; poverty and conservation; protected areas; tourism revenue sharing; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856605910     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.92189     Document Type: Article

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