Nature Tourism in Protected Areas of the Atlantic Coastal Forest of Brazil Erin O. Sills and Vitória Yamada Müller FPEI Working Paper No. 60 The Forestry Private Enterprise Initiative (FPEI) is a cooperative project of the Southeastern Center for Forest Economics Research (SCFER) with the Forestry Support Program (FSP), the United States Agency for International Development (AID), Bureau for Science and Technology (S&T) [through its Office of Forestry, Environment, (and Natural Resources (FENR)], Organization for International Cooperation and Development (OICD), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS), and North Carolina State University (NCSU). Sills, Erin O. and Vitória Yamada Müller. 1997. Nature tourism in protected areas of the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil. Southeastern Center for Forest Economics Research, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. FPEI Working Paper No. 60, 40 pp. About the Authors Erin O. Sills, PhD. student, School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708-0328, U.S.A., phone: (919) 613-8051, fax: (919) 684-8741, email:
[email protected], and Vitória Yamada Müller, Sociedade de Pesquisa em Vida Selvagem (SPVS), Rua Gutemberg, 345, Curitiba, PR, 80420-030, Brasil, phone: (41) 254-2254, fax: (41)253-5483, email:
[email protected]. Prepared as part of a USDA Forest Service/ Duke University Study on Methods for Ecotourism Market Assessment, a component of the USDA Forest Service/ Sociedade de Pesquisa em Vida Selvagem e Educação Ambiental project on Assessing and Planning for Ecotourism in the Atlantic Coastal Forests of Paraná, Brazil. Partially based on previously published article: Sills, Erin O., and V.Y.