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Offering the win-win solutions between ecological conservation and livelihood development: National parks in Qinghai, China

open access: yesGeography and Sustainability, 2020
: National parks as protected areas have been on the spotlight because they are essential in achieving ecological civilization in China. Despite the profound achievements of national parks to conserve nature, the benefits of national parks for local ...
Qi Cheng   +4 more
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At home in national parks : a study of power, knowledge and discourse in Banff National Park and Cairngorms National Park [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
National Parks bear greater implications than simply preserving or conserving pockets of landscape. They evoke values of conservation versus development, livelihood economics, environmental stewardship and personal enrichment; they fulfil positions
Rettie, Kathleen
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National Parks: Can “America’s Best Idea” Adjust to the Twenty-first Century?

open access: yesOpen 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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Texas Parks & Wildlife [PDF]

open access: yes, 1968
Magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in ...
Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.   +1 more
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An evaluation of destination attractiveness for nature-based tourism: Recommendations for the management of national parks in Vietnam [PDF]

open access: yesNature 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Texas Parks & Wildlife [PDF]

open access: yes, 1969
Magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in ...
Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.   +1 more
core   +6 more sources

Distributional Welfare Impacts of Public Spending: The Case of Urban versus National Parks

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesResearch 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
doaj   +1 more source

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