Why keep lions instead of livestock? Assessing wildlife tourism-based payment for ecosystem services involving herders in the Maasai Mara, Kenya

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 242-256

  Osano, Philip M ^a   Said, Mohammed Y ^b   de Leeuw, Jan ^b   Ndiwa, Nicholas ^b   Kaelo, Dickson ^c   Schomers, Sarah ^d   Birner, Regina ^e   Ogutu, Joseph O ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c Basecamp Foundation   (Kenya)

^d Landscape Matter Dynamics   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kenya; Maasai Mara; Pastoral livelihoods; Payments for ecosystem services; Poverty; Wildlife tourism

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMPLOYMENT; INCOME; PASTORALISM; POVERTY; TOURIST ATTRACTION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

KENYA; MASAI MARA; RIFT VALLEY;

EID: 84888007927     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-8947.12027     Document Type: Article

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