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Ecotourism for sustainable development: Oxymoron or plausible strategy?

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Acknowledgements: The research for this article was made possible by a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grant. Guy King, Beth Mills, Chuck Nelson, and D.J. O'Donnell kindly provided assistance with various phases of map production.

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Place, S. Ecotourism for sustainable development: Oxymoron or plausible strategy?. GeoJournal 35, 161–173 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00814062

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