1 INTRODUCTION Urban public parks offer a great potential to raise the quality of life for urban citizens, while at the same time their creation and maintenance requires substantious amounts of money. Surveys have shown that citizens consider parks to be an important element for their well-being, even if used only occasionally. By offering opportunities for equal participation irrespective of g...

Existing evidence on the association between built environment and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors focused on the general population, which may not generalize to higher risk subgroups such as those with lower socio-economic status (SES). We examined the associations between distance to 5 public amenities from residential housing (public polyclinic, subsidized private clinic, healthier...

We thank Dr Le Faucheur and colleagues for their interest in our article. 1 Le Faucheur et al recommend the community-based global positioning system (GPS) to assess walking performance in people with peripheral artery disease (PAD). A study by Le Faucheur et al 2 demonstrates strong correlations between this GPS measure and both the 6-minute walk and treadmill walking performance. The GPS meas...

Heinen, J.T.; Roque, A., and Collado-Vides, L., 2017. Managerial implications of perceptions, knowledge, attitudes, and awareness of residents regarding Puerto Morelos Reef National Park, Mexico. Journal of Coastal Research, 33(2), 295– 303. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This study explores the perceptions of local residents of Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico, concerning Puerto ...

The advent of modernity in Iran weakened many structures and practices, including social hangouts in cities; therefore, the public was cynical about this space. While hangouts, as a third-place and public space in a city, promote social capital, vibrant centers, and citizenship education, Tehran Daneshjoo Park, as a public space with an urban scale and physical and social features, can also be ...

Abstract Public lands in the United States have recently experienced significant increases visitation. Journalists and park managers suggest Instagram as a reason for increase. We explore this issue Oregon State Park system by combining visitation data with park-specific georeferenced content engagement indicators from Instagram. Using several empirical specifications, we show suggesti...

We conduct a valuation of species protection in central Chile's Campana National Park (CNP) using the choice experiment (CE) method. The CNP has been recognized as having global relevance for the conservation of biological diversity. Specifically, the aim is to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of park visitors for protection of different protected species in the area: popular species of fl...

The new species Leucoagaricus variicolor is described from a public park in Zaragoza, Spain, based on both morphological and molecular characters. Illustrations of fresh basidiomata in situ and of the main macro- and micromorphological features are added. Leucoagaricusvariicolor belongs to section Piloselli and is compared with similar taxa.

Debashis Ghosh,1,∗ Jeremy M. G. Taylor,2,∗∗ and Daniel J. Sargent3,∗∗∗ 1Departments of Statistics and Public Health Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, U.S.A. 2Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S.A. 3Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, U.S.A. ∗email: [email protected] ∗∗em...

Protected areas are a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation, and increasingly, conservation science is integrating ecological and social considerations in park management. Indeed, both social and ecological factors need to be considered to understand processes that lead to changes in environmental conditions. Here, we use a social-ecological systems lens to examine changes in governance thro...