Tourism impacts on indigenous pastoral communities in China

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 86-91

  Fan, Mingming ^a   Li, Wenjun ^a   Wei, Guohong ^b   Luo, Fang ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHIHEZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

economy of pastoral areas; Inner Mongolia; pastoralism; perceptions of ecosystem change; sustainable tourism; Xinjiang

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GRASSLAND; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PASTORALISM; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RANGELAND; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84925942814     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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