Environmental management increasingly relies on information about ecosystem services for decision-making. Compared with regulating and provisioning services, cultural (CES) are particularly challenging to characterize measure at management-relevant spatial scales, which has hindered their consideration in practice. Social media one source of spatially explicit data where environments support va...

National parks occur in most nations around the globe and tend to have a dual role of protecting natural heritage features while also providing opportunities for public interact with areas through recreation leisure. are afforded varying degrees protection recreational fishing allowed some form within boundaries parks. However, little is known about extent which occurs national or types regulat...

the natural beauty as well as the diversity of animal and plant life in many wetlands makes them ideal locations for tourists. it is essential to preserve wetlands in the extensive range of human activities to obtain sustainable wetlands. management planning process is a mechanism for achieve this purpose. in this study, recreational management planning with weighted linear combination (wlc) ha...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the Victorian mandatory personal flotation device wearing regulations that came into effect on 1 December 2005 reduced drowning deaths among recreational boaters in Victoria, Australia. DESIGN A retrospective population-based 'before and after' study using Victorian coronial data on drowning deaths of occupants of recreational vessels operating in Victorian wa...

BACKGROUND Enhancing community environments to support walking and bicycling serves as a promising approach to increase population levels of physical activity. However, few studies have simultaneously assessed perceptions and objectively measured environmental factors and their relative association with transportation or recreational physical activity. METHODS For this cross-sectional study, ...

Assessing the motivations and wildlife-related value orientations (WVOs) of outdoor recreations, such as recreational fishing (RF), is key importance to understand human dimensions natural resource use inform management actions. Using a national random telephone survey, we contrasted participation rate, socio-economical profile, WVO participants RF, recreation (OR), consumptive (COR), indoor (I...

During the past 2 years, numerous groups have discussed recreational and other commercial uses of wildlife and land resources by farmers and ranchers. For example, in 1986, the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station conducted the International Ranchers Roundup in Kerrville, Texas. At this meeting, several speakers presented papers on the marketing of wildlife and rangeland resources, some discus...