Charging for Nature: Marine Park Fees and Management from a User Perspective

Charging for nature: marine park fees and management from a user perspective.

User fees can contribute to the financial sustainability of marine protected areas (MPAs), yet they must be acceptable to users. We explore changes in the fee system and management of Bonaire National Marine Park (BNMP) from the perspective of users. Responses from 393 tourists indicated that 90% were satisfied with park conditions and considered current user fees reasonable. However, only 47% ...

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Tool Support for Requirements Management Quality from a User Perspective

Requirements in software development are fundamental in order to document and describe what the system to be developed basically “is” and how it should behave. The requirements are elicited, anlyzed and prioritized in the requirement process to produce a software requirement specification (SRS). The SRS can contain many requirements and large volumes of information, which calls for good require...

Migrating from user fees to social health insurance: exploring the prospects and challenges for hospital management

BACKGROUND In 2003 Ghana introduced a social health insurance scheme which resulted in the separation of purchasing of health services by the health insurance authority on the one hand and the provision of health services by hospitals at the other side of the spectrum. This separation has a lot of implications for managing accredited hospitals. This paper examines whether decoupling purchasing ...

Who Uses Urban Parks? A Study of User Characteristics and Activity Patterns of Ramna Park, Dhaka

A growing body of research shows positive association between parks and physical activity, but very few studies have investigated the characteristics of users and how the activities vary according to different user groups. The purpose of this study was to investigate the socio-demographic profile of the users, their activities and motivation of visiting the park. Total 400 users of Ramna Park w...