This paper relates the experience of simultaneously implementing a community-based grassland recovery project and developing eco-cultural tourism nearby a high alpine nature reserve in Southwestern China.It illustrates a development model where ecosystem restoration and preservation of traditional knowledge are merged in a tourism development project intended to address already existing ecological degradation, deterioration and loss of cultural heritage and traditional knowledge, as well as to alleviate poverty.
LIU Chunhui, YIN Lun, Karlis ROKPELNIS, XUE Dayuan
. Ecological Restoration and Traditional Knowledge Preservation through Eco-cultural Tourism Development:Case Study from Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve Area[J]. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2012
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DOI: 10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2012.03.012
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