Changes in environmental policy and mountain tourism in Nepal
Against a backdrop of environmental crisis, attributed to the impact of tourism and the practices of rural populations, Nepal has created protected areas with a view to preserving the Himalayan environment and promoting sustainable tourism in the regions concerned. Given the conflicts between conser...
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2009-12-01
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| description | Against a backdrop of environmental crisis, attributed to the impact of tourism and the practices of rural populations, Nepal has created protected areas with a view to preserving the Himalayan environment and promoting sustainable tourism in the regions concerned. Given the conflicts between conservation needs and development needs, local communities are now being given a bigger role in the governance of these protected areas. Yet the measures being taken simply accompany and guide well-established tourism dynamics that operate on a much greater scale. Trekking is thus a tourism system largely in the hands of the country’s mountain communities and is an activity that has enabled these communities to improve their living conditions while at the same time limiting environmental impacts. In this sense it is very much in line with the principles of sustainable development. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9517fec3b79341a1acd4caece7b2a1832025-01-10T15:56:30ZengInstitut de Géographie AlpineRevue de Géographie Alpine0035-11211760-74262009-12-0197310.4000/rga.1031Changes in environmental policy and mountain tourism in NepalIsabelle SacareauAgainst a backdrop of environmental crisis, attributed to the impact of tourism and the practices of rural populations, Nepal has created protected areas with a view to preserving the Himalayan environment and promoting sustainable tourism in the regions concerned. Given the conflicts between conservation needs and development needs, local communities are now being given a bigger role in the governance of these protected areas. Yet the measures being taken simply accompany and guide well-established tourism dynamics that operate on a much greater scale. Trekking is thus a tourism system largely in the hands of the country’s mountain communities and is an activity that has enabled these communities to improve their living conditions while at the same time limiting environmental impacts. In this sense it is very much in line with the principles of sustainable development.https://journals.openedition.org/rga/1031sustainable developmenttourismprotected areasconservationparticipatory managementtheory of himalayan environmental degradation |
| spellingShingle | Isabelle Sacareau Changes in environmental policy and mountain tourism in Nepal Revue de Géographie Alpine sustainable development tourism protected areas conservation participatory management theory of himalayan environmental degradation |
| title | Changes in environmental policy and mountain tourism in Nepal |
| title_full | Changes in environmental policy and mountain tourism in Nepal |
| title_fullStr | Changes in environmental policy and mountain tourism in Nepal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Changes in environmental policy and mountain tourism in Nepal |
| title_short | Changes in environmental policy and mountain tourism in Nepal |
| title_sort | changes in environmental policy and mountain tourism in nepal |
| topic | sustainable development tourism protected areas conservation participatory management theory of himalayan environmental degradation |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/rga/1031 |
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