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Rainforest Tourism, Conservation and Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Rainforest Tourism, Conservation and Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-19
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion. Yet they have a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and providing other ecosystem services. As the term is used in this book, rainforests include both temperate and tropical, although the emphasis is on tropical rainforests. Rainforests are also attractive tourist spaces and where they have been used as a tourism resource have generated significant income for local communities. However not all use of rainforests as a tourism resource has been sustainable. This book argues that sustainability must be the foundation on which t...