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| Year : 2013 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 375-390 |
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Tiger, Lion, and Human Life in the Heart of Wilderness: Impacts of Institutional Tourism on Development and Conservation in East Africa and India
Nilanjan Ghosh1, Emil Uddhammar2
1 Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited, Mumbai, India
2 Department of Government, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Correspondence Address:
Nilanjan Ghosh
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited, Mumbai
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.125750
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This article tests the hypothesis on whether tourism is an important institutional factor in reconciling the conflicting goals of conservation and development. The study entails data from field surveys across protected areas including the Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania, and the Corbett National Park in northern India. With human development defined in terms of 'stages of progress' (SOP) delineated by the respondents themselves, the study finds indicative evidences of the validity of the posed hypothesis in the two nations, in varying proportions. Factors not related to tourism, like incomes from livestock, have affected development in Tanzania, though not in India. |
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