Scenarios as models for knowledge integration: Ecotourism futures in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2826-2832

  Bohensky, E B ^a   Butler, J R A ^a   Mitchell, D ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Conservation International ^*  (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Drivers; Ecotourism; Future; Knowledge integration; Scenarios; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PLANNING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INTEGRATING INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85086272414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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