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Sustainable ecotourism can be viable and profitable. The last chapter proposes suggestions to manage non-urban wetland areas of Sundaland. Future development of these areas must consider access to these imperiled systems by the general public, while protecting them.
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Polgar, G., Jaafar, Z. (2018). Ecotourism and the Future of the Forested Wetlands of Sundaland. In: Endangered Forested Wetlands of Sundaland. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52417-7_5
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