During the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, South Korean men exhibited greater affective risk perceptions than women, displaying anxiety and fear of COVID-19 infection as well emotional distress. Such negative psychological states can be reduced through exposure to natural environments. Natural settings often provide restorative environments promoting individual mental health, stab...

Camping is a salient economic contributor to nature-based tourism that also beholden the natural environment. Climate resources are combination of naturally occurring meteorological variables empirically observable importance firm performance. Tourism climatologist at forefront climate resource research, where investigations have been primarily derived rather than guided by theory. Accordingly,...

Waters derived from remote 'wilderness' locations have been assumed to be largely free of bacterial contamination and thus such, near-pristine, protected catchments, unused for agriculture, have been first in the multiple line of protection (pristine catchment-long storage-treatment-disinfection) employed by the water industry. This assumption is challenged by a bacterial survey of the waters d...