Wildlife tourists in India's emerging economy: Potential for a conservation constituency?

ORYX

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 382-390

  Karanth, Krithi K ^a,c   Defries, Ruth ^a   Srivathsa, Arjun ^b   Sankaraman, Vishnupriya ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fees; India; parks; people; tigers; tourism; wildlife

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECOTOURISM; FELID; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NATIONAL PARK; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

INDIA; KANHA NATIONAL PARK; KARNATAKA; MADHYA PRADESH; NAGARHOLE NATIONAL PARK; RAJASTHAN; RANTHAMBHORE NATIONAL PARK;

PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS;

EID: 84863922645     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003060531100086X     Document Type: Article

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