Towards a decommodified wildlife tourism: why market environmentalism is not enough for conservation

• Main Authors: Belicia, Teo Xin Yi, Islam, Md Saiful
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Wildlife Tourism; Market Environmentalism; DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103314; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47302
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Wildlife tourism is frequently touted as a solution to the problems of increased poaching, habitat destruction, and species extinction. When wildlife is able to pay for its right to survive through attracting tourists, there is an incentive to conserve wildlife populations and the habitats that supp...