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Public perceptions of challenges facing inclusive governance of hot spring landscapes in China

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Recognizing the ecological and cultural significance of hot springs, the Chinese government has adopted protective legislation. However, these measures are being undermined by local governments’ failure to adopt Inclusive Landscape Governance (ILG ...
Yue Li, Yue Yuan, Nor Azlina Abu Bakar, Riyadh Mundher, Guo Yue   +4 more
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The importance of protecting unique Romanian landscape values, illustrated by examples of problem solving in other countries

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Agriculture and Environment, 2016
Nature and landscape protection has gained importance over the past 50 years from the economic, cultural, health, and recreational point of view. The process is closely linked to our civilizational endeavours (such as economic interests, pollution ...
Henning Anna Imola
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Perceived Conservation Effectiveness as a Driver of Cultural Ecosystem Service Value in a Transboundary River Corridor: Evidence from the Lower Jordan River Basin

Land
River corridor rehabilitation is increasingly expected to deliver coupled outcomes by combining ecological recovery with measurable improvements in human well-being.
Ansam Bzour, István Valánszki
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Landscape management as a local tool for landscape protection

4D, 2015
By the early XXI. century, our understanding of landscape has extended past the mere grasp of uniqueness, natural and cultural values and attractiveness, and now includes knowledge about vegetation, spatial structure – both constantly changing in space,
Zsuzsanna Illyés
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Measuring People–Place Relationships in Residential Environments: Framework Development and Pilot Testing in Damascus

Land
Conceptual ambiguity in People–Place Relationships (PPR) research limits consistent operationalization and cross-context comparability, particularly in under-represented cultural settings.
Rahaf Yousef, Anna Éva Borkó, István Valánszki   +2 more
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Recreational and Landscape Preferences of Anglers in the Case of Lake Tisza

Land
Angling tourism is becoming increasingly important at Central Europe’s largest lowland reservoir, Lake Tisza. The lake, created in the 1970s, covers 127 km2 and has been increasingly used for recreational and nature conservation purposes recently.
Borbála Benkhard, Emőke Kiss, Péter Csorba, Dániel Balla, György Szabó, Tamás Mester, Róbert Vass, István Fazekas, Beáta Babka, Dávid Balázs, Mária Vasvári   +10 more
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Protection of the quiet and nocturnal landscape

Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Administratio Locorum
Motives: We associate landscape primarily with the presence of vistas that change with the time of day, season and weather conditions. Landscape is shaped by light and darkness, sound and silence, all of which influence its perception. Quiet and nocturnal landscapes, however, remain on the margins of scientific interest in traditional landscape studies.
Sebastian Krzysztof Bernat, Patrycja Adamczyk   +1 more
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A fragmented landscape of protection

Forced Migration Review, 2015
Changing concepts of protection and a growing diversity in the practice of protection and in the range of humanitarian and other actors doing protection work have led to a fragmentation of effective protection for forced migrants.
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A Multifunctional Mosaic of Green Spaces in the Context of the Lower Silesia Region (Southern Poland) Sustainable Development

Problemy Ekorozwoju, 2010
The aim of the paper is to present the core of the “Green Grid’ – an environmentally functioning web of linear and surface elements in the city and its urban fringe that have been planned for multiple purposes, including ecological, recreational ...
Anna Zaręba
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Discovery of farnesal from a wild cucumber landrace enables eco-compatible biopesticide development against aphids

Nature Communications
Pest infestations devastate crop production, but chemical pesticides pose environmental and health risks. Eco-friendly biopesticides offer a solution, though limited by bioactive compound discovery.
Chunyu Suo, Lili Zhang, Qianwei Liang, Chaoyan Chen, Lei Qiu, Ziyi Li, Xinran Zhang, Xuewen Xu, Xiaohua Qi, Xuehao Chen, Jianguo Feng, Xiaodong Yang   +11 more
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