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National Parks: Can “America’s Best Idea” Adjust to the Twenty-first Century?
Open Rivers, 2017 National Parks are often referred to as “America’s best idea.” Recent scholarship and well-publicized difficulties within the agency have shown that, perhaps inevitably, the National Park Service and the extensive system that it manages, has taken on ...
Patrick Nunnally
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An evaluation of destination attractiveness for nature-based tourism: Recommendations for the management of national parks in Vietnam [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2019 National parks are increasingly recognized as playing an important role in the development of nature-based tourism destinations that promote effective management of natural resources and socioeconomic development.
Le Thanh An +4 more
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Political ecology, privation and sustainable livelihoods in northern Thailand's national parks
Journal of Political Ecology, 2020 National parks provide a wide range of ecological, social and economic benefits. However, in some cases the establishment of national parks has also lead to the displacement of indigenous people, the disruption of their livelihoods, and ongoing social ...
Aurathai Phongchiewboon +3 more
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Birds of a National Park. [PDF]
Emu, 1923 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Distributional Welfare Impacts of Public Spending: The Case of Urban versus National Parks
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2004 This study examines the optimal allocation of funds between national and urban parks. Since travel costs to national parks are significantly higher than to urban parks, poor households tend to visit the latter more frequently, whereas rich households ...
Eli Feinerman +2 more
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CONSEQUENCES OF THE CHANGE IN NATIONAL PARKS’ FINANCING IN POLAND AFTER 2011
Research on Enterprise in Modern Economy Theory and Practice, 2017 Significant changes in the financing of national parks were introduced in Poland in the years 2010–2015. Until January 2011 national parks were operating as state budgetary units, however the amount of subsidies received from the state budget was ...
Anna Wisniewska
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Evaluating uncertainty in estimates of large rhinoceros populations
Pachyderm, 2020 Estimates of the numbers of living rhinoceroses inform management interventions. Several techniques assist authorities in obtaining estimates. For large populations, authorities use sample-based methods.
Sam M Ferreira, Danie Pienaar
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Land, 2021 Over the past five years, the pilot establishment of national parks in China has been a major event in global biodiversity conservation. The national parks under construction and proposed account for nearly 1% of the land area, and their social impacts ...
Qian Dong +3 more
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