State-Led Ecotourism Development and Nature Conservation: a Case Study of the Changbai Mountain Biosphere Reserve, China

Faced with fiscal constraints and enormous population pressures, 80% of Chinese nature reserves have employed ecotourism as a support and development strategy. Assessing the actual effects of ecotourism at a nature reserve that has a relatively long history of ecotourism development experience may b...

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Main Authors: Jianqiong Yuan, Limin Dai, Qingli Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2008-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art55/