Open AccessTiger, Lion, and Human Life in the Heart of Wilderness: Impacts of Institutional Tourism on Development and Conservation in East Africa and India
Author(s) -
Nilanjan Ghosh,
Emil Uddhammar
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
conservation and society/conservation and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.04
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 0975-3133
pISSN - 0972-4923
DOI - 10.4103/0972-4923.125750
Subject(s) - tanzania , wilderness , national park , tourism , tiger , wilderness area , geography , socioeconomics , impacts of tourism , livestock , wildlife conservation , ecotourism , poaching , environmental resource management , environmental protection , economic growth , wildlife , environmental planning , ecology , sociology , economics , archaeology , biology , forestry , computer security , computer science
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