Sustainable Development of Ecotourism in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiyari Province, Iran, a Scenario Study

Subject Areas : Geography and tourism planning, geography and urban planning, urban planning, architecture, geography and rural planning, political geography

Farahnaz Ebrahimi ¹ (Department of Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Vahid Etemad ² (Associate Prof. Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, College of agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran)

Received: 2019-06-30 Accepted : 2019-06-30 Published : 2019-06-01

Keywords: Chaharmahal and Bakhtiyari, Current situation, Scenarios’ development,

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