Stakeholder Participation in Planning of the Protected Natural Areas: Slovenia

Stakeholder Participation in Planning of the Protected Natural Areas: Slovenia

The participation of stakeholders in the planning of protected natural areas is growing significantly. It enhances their trust in protection aims and management measures. Limited time and finances, however, often reduce the impact of stakeholder participation on the level of information and education, thus usually resulting in insufficient implementation of choices regarding nature conservation...

Stakeholder e-Participation in Local Planning: The Camargue Park Case

The goal of this study is to evaluate several features and outcomes of the e-consultation organized by the Camargue Natural Park on its management plan. To estimate the benefits of the selected Internet devices, we have compared our assessment of this e-consultation with other face-to-face participative events organized on the same management plan. Following “computermediated communication” and...

Drivers and Socioeconomic Impacts of Tourism Participation in Protected Areas

Nature-based tourism has the potential to enhance global biodiversity conservation by providing alternative livelihood strategies for local people, which may alleviate poverty in and around protected areas. Despite the popularity of the concept of nature-based tourism as an integrated conservation and development tool, empirical research on its actual socioeconomic benefits, on the distribution...

Planning for Protected Areas Using Spatial and Temporal Metrics

[An environmental history of protected natural areas in Brazil].