False promise or false premise? Using tourism revenue sharing to promote conservation and poverty reduction in Uganda
Tourism and the sharing of the associated revenues with local people have been increasingly fronted as key instruments for maintaining protected areas (PAs) globally. This paper focuses on a tourism revenue sharing scheme employed in Uganda′s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, involving rural farmer...
Main Authors: | David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Paul Vedeld |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2012-01-01
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Series: | Conservation & Society |
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Online Access: | http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2012;volume=10;issue=1;spage=15;epage=28;aulast=Tumusiime |
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