Globalisation and traditional social-ecological systems: Understanding impacts of tourism and labour migration to the transhumance systems in the Himalayas

Environmental Development

Volumn 25, Issue , 2018, Pages 73-84

  Aryal, Suman ^a   Cockfield, Geoff ^a   Maraseni, Tek Narayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Globalisation; Himalayas; Migration; Socio ecological system (SES); Tourism; Transhumance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029536990     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2017.09.001     Document Type: Article

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