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Title:
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Tourism and the
Environment: Perspectives From the Nepal
Himalaya
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Publisher:
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Himal Books, Kathmandu
and STUDIEN-Verlag, Innsbruck,
2003
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Abstract:
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When concentrated in and
around ecologically fragile areas, tourism poses enormous management
challenges. Based on an intensive fieldwork in protected areas in the
Everest, Annapurna and Upper Mustang regions, this
book examines the temporal and spatial development of tourism and the
analysis of its implications for the environment in the three regions under
study. The methodological innovation of the study lies in providing a
comparative perspective of the three tourist regions with respect to
tourism-induced environmental problems, the institutional basis for
addressing the problems and the implications for environmental management.
It advocates a decentralized, institutional approach for the promotion of
tourism and environmental management. Tourism induces environmental changes
but the direction of these changes is neither predetermined nor absolute.
Just as contrary to all the forecasts of an impending environmental
catastrophe, the middle hills of Nepal are greening again thanks to the
success of the community forestry programme, the environmental impacts of
tourism can also be mitigated once an institutional context is created
where tourism becomes a catalyst for local development, and is perceived as
an asset for the community.
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Title:
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Great Himalaya: Tourism and the
Dynamics of Change in Nepal
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Publisher:
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Swiss
Foundation for Alpine Research, Bern, Switzerland,
2002
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Abstract:
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Based on extensive
fieldwork and years of personal experience, the authors discuss the
development of tourism in the High Himalaya of Nepal from the early days of
mountaineering to present-day trekking. Tourism and its potential,
drawbacks, and risks are illustrated with a focus on the Everest and Annapurna
regions, the most popular mountain destinations in the country.
The themes addressed
include: growth and expansion of mountain tourism; employment and income
generation, wealth, poverty, and livelihoods as reflected by statistics and
personal accounts by local people; the revival of trade with Tibet; tourism
and the role of women; the crucial role played by institutions, policies
and political stability; and environmental issues such as forest
degradation, garbage management, and trail damage.
With its numerous
illustrations, text boxes, and quotes, the book in intended for a broad
readership of policy and decision-makers in tourism and development,
scholars, and tourists and mountaineers who take an interest in mountain
development in the High Himalaya and elsewhere.
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Title:
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Struggle For Existence: Park People Conflict in the Royal
Chitwan National Park
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Publisher:
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Asian
Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok,
1993
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Abstract:
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The book provides a
detailed account of the conflicts between park and people in and around Nepal's
first protected area, namely the Royal
Chitwan National Park
and attempts to search for a practical, holistic solution to decades of
socio-economic and conservation woes that threaten the park. Some of the
main themes discussed in the book include historical, geographical,
demographic, social, economic, and ecological perspectives on the human and
natural environment of the Chitwan area; pressure on park resources from
illegal grazing, harvesting, and other activities; wildlife depredation and
its human, social and economic consequences; park efforts to improve
relationships with local communities through buffer zones, community
development, community forestry, literary, environmental education and
other measures.
The book concludes with
a discussion on a 'vision of co-existence' amid assorted challnges and
opportunities' and could potentially usher in successful attainment of the
goals of improving the socio-economic condition of the communities and
biodiversity conservation, which inludes repopulation of some endangered
wildlife species like one-horned rhinocerus, gharial crocodile, Royal
Bengali Tiger, Leopard, wild dog, Gangetic river dolphins and many other
denizens of the Chitwan wilderness.
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