Community-based social marketing is a relatively new approach in marketing which makes use of social networks within communities to disseminate marketing messages in a information campaign. Agent-based models can be used as a tool for exploring the sensitivity of such campaigns to the structure of social networks within target communities. We develop an agentbased model for a social marketing c...

Ecotourism is based on three main concepts: conservation and protection of the environment, supporting local cultures and economies and environmental education for both locals and tourists. Thus far much of the research has focused on the first two components; largely ignoring the importance that environmental education has in the future of ecotourism and the conservation movement as a whole. T...

Global attention to the global warming reduction has invite numerous strategy implemented with the objectives is mitigating greenhouse gasses emission which threats to the future of living in biosphere. Essentially, absorbing CO2 from atmosphere and sequestering in terrestrial ecosystem is one of the significant strategy. While in developing countries it is become essential, support for forest ...

Ecotourism and agricultural development have been proven to synergistic effects, although few studies employed a spatial planning approach incorporate tourism growth into crop cultivation planning. This study constructed theoretical framework of environmental suitability—farmland accessibility—tourist’s landscape preferences for link regional agriculture ecotourism development. The rapeseed in ...

Nature tourism is being increasingly promoted as a means to combat the inequality and dependency in rural areas. Furthermore, ecotourism as a subset of nature tourism has emerged as a potential mechanism for involving rural communities in the management of their natural resources, and thus benefit from their conservation efforts. This paper presents the results of a study undertaken within thre...

It is critical to develop a sustainable ecotourism service system for the fragile Penghu National Scenic Area in Taiwan. This study, therefore, adopted fuzzy Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) establish an index framework. The results identified four dimensions with 21 factors. findings are as follows. Safety management capability found be main factor system. Ecological diversit...