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dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Ralf
dc.contributor.editorRalf Buckley
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-28T00:44:49Z
dc.date.available2018-09-28T00:44:49Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.date.modified2009-07-02T06:45:20Z
dc.identifier.isbn0851998100
dc.identifier.doi10.1079/9780851998107.0083
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/424
dc.description.abstractMotorized transport is a component of many tourism products, including tours that are advertised as ecotours, and tours that operate in protected areas. Four-wheel-drive (4WD) and other off-highway vehicles (OHVs) many be used in ecotours for a number of reasons: • to transport inexperienced clients safely amidst potentially dangerous wildlife, e.g. in African game safaris; • to transport and control clients amongst wildlife more easily disturbed by pedes-trians than by vehicles; • to transport equipment for non-motorized activities, e.g. whitewater rafts, sea kayaks, mountain bikes; • to transport camping equipment and food for tour clients travelling by non-motorized means; • as the primary means of travel in terrain types where travel on foot is too slow or arduous for the distances involved; e.g. level us for the distances involved; e.g. level arid landscapes with little surface water. Realistically, therefore, the impacts of eco-tourism include the impacts of OHVs, but only where OHVs are legally permitted, where they are needed as part of an ecotour product, and where they are driven with due regard to minimize environmental impacts. There are also many recreational users of OHVs, both private and commercial, who drive them with no concern for environmental impacts and in places of high conservation value. Such use is clearly not ecotourism.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCABI
dc.publisher.placeWallingford
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9780851998107
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleEnvironmental Impacts of Ecotourism
dc.relation.ispartofchapter6
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom83
dc.relation.ispartofpageto97
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode300804
dc.titleEnvironmental impacts of motorized off-highway vehicles
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment
gro.date.issued2004
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBuckley, Ralf


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