Forests

Forests, Communities and the "Green India Mission":

Promises and Failures of Ecotourism

Research Papers and Case Studies
This paper highlights issues with promoting ecotourism as a market based conservation tool. It is based on 2 earlier papers that EQUATIONS has been involved in: Forests, Communities and Tourism (EQUATIONS, October 2011) and Green India Mission: India’s REDD+ Action Plan to disempower and evict forest communities from their own homelands (AIFFM and EQUATIONS, October 2011)).
This paper was published in the publication: 'Beyond Greening: Reflections on Tourism in the Rio-Processby EED in June 2012.
Geographies
India

EQUATIONS is a research, policy, and advocacy organisation working on tourism and development issues in India. Our work has focused on the economic, environmental, social, cultural, political and administrative impacts of tourism particularly on people living in and around tourism destinations. We collaborate closely with organisations and peoples movements, to influence people-centered forms of tourism & policies that ensure significant local benefits and take into account the negative impacts of an unbridled growth of tourism.

 

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