The National Park Service has developed a long-term ecological monitoring program for 32 ecoregional networks containing more than 270 parks with significant natural resources. The monitoring program assists park managers in developing a broad-based understanding of the status and trends of park resources as a basis for making decisions and working with other agencies and the public for the lon...

City parks, important environments built for physical activity, play critical roles in preventing chronic diseases and promoting public health. We used five commonly used park indicators to investigate the spatiotemporal trend of city parks in mainland China between 1981 and 2014 at three scales: national, provincial and city class. City parks in China increased significantly with a turning poi...

public authorities should assess what recreational services can be offered citizens visitingaprotected natural area. therefore, the characterisation of visitors as well as the economic valuation of apark’srecreational use would allow the proposal of management strategies to satisfy visitors. for this purpose,410 surveys were taken of visitors to the calaresdelmundoandsimanatural park (spain). t...

Public Health Burden and Potential Interventions for Myopia Bobeck S. Modjtahedi, MD Eye Monitoring Center, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Baldwin Park, California Frederick L. Ferris III, MD National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland David G. Hunter, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School and the Department of Ophthalmology, Boston, Massachusetts Donald S. Fong, MD, MPH Eye Monitoring Center, ...

INTRODUCTION Sustainable park management encompasses the requirement to provide equal opportunities for access and usage of the park, regardless of age, gender or nationality of the visitors. It thereby presents opportunities as well as problems for today’s heterogeneous global cities. The research presented here is part of the project “Sustainable design, management and appropriation of urban ...

management principles in public management of the environment has expanded significantly in the past two decades, innovations in public land management have lagged considerably. The primary innovations have been wide-ranging advances in reserve design, community conservation, ecosystem management, sustainable development, and financing mechanisms (Repetto 1992; The World Bank 1997; Phillips 200...